Walter Richard Haighton Chappel (c1871-1928)
Born the son of Rev. William Pester Chappel
Francis Douglas Osborne and Walter Richard Haighton Chappel. Osborne was an Irishman who arrived in Malaya around 1880 while Chappel was a Cornish mining engineer who arrived around 1890.
They formed a partnership which, with financial backing from Cornish investors, went on to become one of the most successful alluvial tin mining groups in Malaya. The finance came through the help of James Wickett, a partner in the stockbroker firm of Abott & Wickett, based in Redruth, Cornwall.
1891 Residing at Camborne
1918 Sale by Marie Aimee Chappel, his wife, of Tidbury Green Farm containing a farmhouse and buildings and 65 acres land.<ref>Bham University
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