Matriculated at the age of 16 at Penbroke College, Oxford. He was a man of learning, and a man of balanced mind, who inherited also the Chapman tradition of getting on in the world. At the age of 26 he became Master of St. Johns Hospital, Bath. On 15th Feb. 1744 he was installed Prebendary of Bristol Cathedral. He later took his Doc. of Divinity degree.

Susanna was a lady of fashion. The poise of her head and the beauty of her pearls (painting by Maria Spilsbury) leads one to think that young Chapman felt honoured when he married her. She was a woman of great courage, a quality which more than one of her daughters inherited. before her marriage, she was the herione of two adventueres. One was when a little child, she was stolen away by gypsies. A hue and cry was raised and she was ortunetly found by her mother, who, when passing on one side of a hedge, heard a child crying on the other, and discovered her child, whom a gypsy woman was denuding of her pretty little garments.

Husband: Walter CHAPMAN
 (1. Walter; 2. Walter; 3. William; 4. William; 5. Thomas; 6. William; 7. Thomas; 8. Robert:)
 Born: 1711 at: Bath 
 Married: 5 MAR 1738 at: London 
 Died: 5 MAR 1791 at: Shirehampton 
 Father:Walter CHAPMAN
Mother:Mary MORGAN
Other Spouses: 
Wife: Susanna TRATT
 Born: 12 JUN 1718 at: St.Andrews London 
 Died: 1758 at: Bath 
 Father:Francis TRATT
Mother:Rebecca DINGLEY
Other Spouses: 
CHILDREN
 Name: Rebecca CHAPMAN
Born: 1748 at: Bath Married: 13 FEB 1775 at: St James Clerkenwell Msx Died: FEB 1812 at: London Spouses: Jonathan SPILSBURY 
 Name: Mary CHAPMAN
Born: at: Bath Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Henry HENSHAW