CHANNINO 421 CHAPEL CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY, an American preacher and writer, born in Newport, R. I., April 7, 1780. He studied at Harvard College, became a decided Unitarian, and propagated Uni- tarian tenets with great zeal and suc- cess. His first appointment as a pastor was in 1803, when he obtained the charge of a congregation in Boston, and ere long he became known as one of the most popular preachers of America. His reputation was still further increased by the publication of writings, chiefly ser- mons, reviews, etc., on popular subjects. He died in Bennington, Vt., Oct. 2, 1842. CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY, an American poet; nephew of William E. Channing, the elder; born in Boston, Mass., June 10, 1818. He is author of "Poems" (1843-1847) ; "The Woodman" (1849); "Near Home" (1858); "The Wanderer" (1872) ; "Conversations in Rome" (1847); and "Thoreau" (1873). He died in 1901. CHANNING, WILLIAM HENRY, an American Unitarian clergyman and biog- rapher; nephew of W. E. Channing, the elder; born in Boston, May 25, 1810. Settling in England, he succeeded James Martineau as pastor at Liverpool. His daughter married Sir Edwin Arnold. His principal work was "Memoir of Wil- liam Ellery Channing" (3 vols., 1848). He died in London, Dec. 23, 1884. CHANTIBTJN, or CHANTABON, an important commercial port of Siam, near the mouth of the Chantibun river, in the Gulf of Siam. Pop. about 30,000. CHANTILLY, (shan-te-ye'), a town of France in the department of the Oise, 25 miles N. N. E. of Paris, celebrated for a variety of lace made here and in the neighborhood; for the splendid cha- teau, built by the great Conde, but lev- eled by the mob at the revolution; and , also for another palace built by the Due d'Aumale after the estate came into his possession in 1850, which, along with the fine domain, was presented by the duke to the French Institute in 1887. It is a horse-racing center. Pop. about 7,500. CHANTREY, SIR FRANCIS, an Eng;- lish sculptor, born near Sheffield, April 7, 1781; was the son of a well-to-do car- penter. Even in boyhood his chief amusement was in drawing and model- ing figures, and he was apprenticed in 1797 to a carver and gilder. In 1802 he commenced work for himself at Shef- field by taking portraits in crayons. After studying at the Royal Academy in London he eventually settled in the metropolis, where he presented numer- ous busts at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy. He soon came to be regarded as the first monumental sculptor of his time. In 1816 he was chosen an associ- ate and in 1818 a member of the Royal Academy, He was knighted in 1835. His most celebrated works are the "Sleeping Children," in Litchfield Cathe- dral; the statue of Lady Louisa Russell, in Woburn Abbey; the bronze statue of William Pitt, in Hanover Square, Lon- don; a statue of Washington, in the State House, Boston; and statues of Horner, Canning, Sir J. Malcolm, etc., in Westminster Abbey. His best works are his busts, but his full-length figures be- tray an insufficient acquaintance with anatomy, and several of his equestrian statues are still more defective. He died Nov. 25, 1842. CHANTTTE, a city of Kansas, in Neosho CO. It is on the Atchison, To- peka and Santa Fe, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads. It has several industries of importance, includ- ing glass works, brick and cement plants, tool works, flour mills, oil refineries, etc. It is the center of an extensive oil and gas district. Fop. (1910) 9,272; (1920) 10,286. CHAO-CHAU, a city of China, on the Han-Kiang, in the province of Kwang- tung, 195 miles N. E. of Hong-Kong. Al- though not a treaty port, Chao-Chau has a harbor for ordinary vessels of corn- merce. The nearest telegraph station is at Swatu, 20 miles away. Pop. about 200,000. The city is wholly under native control and sends large quantities of sugar and tea down the Han-Kiang to the treaty port of Swatu (or Swatow). CHAP ALA, a lake in Mexico, on the high plateau of Jalisco, surrounded by steep, bare mountains. It has an esti- mated area of 1300 square miles, con- tains many islands, and its outlet is the Rio Grande de Santiago. CHAPEL, a place of worship, formerly distinguished from a church by the pub- licity of the worship to be performed; churches being for general use, and chapels (or little churches) for the spe- cial use of private individuals or par- ticular households. From these the use of the term in Europe has been extended so as to include all religious edifices not of the established faith. There are also, in the Protestant as in the Roman Cath- olic churches, chapels of ease to parish churches, built for the accommodation of worshipers in populous or extensive parishes. In Roman Catholic churches, portions of the main building, dedicated to particular saints, in honor of whom a service is there performed, are called chapels.
