Chaloner William Chute

He was the son of William Lyde Wiggett, who took the surname Chute on inheriting The Vyne.^[1][2] He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford in 1857, graduating B.A. in 1861, M.A, in 1864. A Fellow of Magdalen College from 1861, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn and gave up his fellowship in 1875.^[3] He was elected a fellow of Winchester College.^[4]

Chute married in 1875 Eleanor Jane Portal, second daughter of Wyndham Spencer Portal.^[4] They had three sons:^[5]

• Sir Charles Lennard Chute MC (1879–1956), a barrister.
• Rev. John Chaloner Chute (born 1881)
• Rev. Anthony William Chute OBE (born 1884)