hospital for an operation but died on 16 September 1961. The newspapers reported that he had been ill for a long time; his former wife later commented that "he must have died a very sad man". Tributes focused on his successes as a cricketer and appealing personality. Summing up Chapman's life, Gibson writes: "But just as a good end can redeem a sad life, so a good life can redeem a sad end, and he had known his hours, his years of glory." Swanton concluded his obituary of Chapman in 1961: "The elderly and the middle-aged will recall him rather in his handsome sunlit youth, the epitome of all that was gay and fine in the game of cricket." Notes References Bibliography External links 1900 births 1961 deaths Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Berkshire cricketers Cambridge University cricketers England Test cricket captains English cricketers English cricketers of 1919 to 1945 England Test cricketers Free Foresters cricketers Gentlemen cricketers Kent cricketers Kent cricket captains Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Minor Counties cricketers North v South cricketers People educated at Uppingham School Sportspeople from Reading, Berkshire Wisden Cricketers of the Year L. H. Tennyson's XI cricket team A. E. R. Gilligan's XI cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club Australian Touring Team cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club South African Touring Team cricketers