Chester

Chester, JOSEPH LEMUEL, genealogist, born in Norwich, Connecticut, 30th April 1821, was a newspaper editor in Philadelphia, and in 1858 came to England, where he edited the Registers of Westminster (1876) and other registers; part of his copy of the Oxford matriculation register has been printed (1887), and his extracts from the Bishop of London's register were published under the title London Marriage Licenses (1887). Chester was an LL.D. of Columbia College, and D.C.L. of Oxford, but always retained the title of Colonel, a reminiscence of the honorary post of aide-de-camp to a Pennsylvania governor which he had once held. He died in London, 26th May 1882. See Dean's Memoir (1884).