Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p John Ratcliffe Chapman (1815 - February 4, 1899) was an eminent British engineer and the son son of another eminent British engineer, William Chapman, inventor of the Steam Elephant. John Ratcliffe Chapman brought his wife, Mary Pollitt Chapman to America in 1842 on HMS Britannia with the great author Charles Dickens aboard. Dickens mentions Chapman briefly as follows in Chapter II of "American Notes, ". . .. }
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- John_Ratcliffe_Chapman comment "John Ratcliffe Chapman (1815 - February 4, 1899) was an eminent British engineer and the son son of another eminent British engineer, William Chapman, inventor of the Steam Elephant. John Ratcliffe Chapman brought his wife, Mary Pollitt Chapman to America in 1842 on HMS Britannia with the great author Charles Dickens aboard. Dickens mentions Chapman briefly as follows in Chapter II of "American Notes, ". . .".