CHAPPELL, WILLIAM (18o9-1888), English writer on music, a member of the London musical firm of Chappell and Co., was born on Nov. 20, 1809, eldest son of Samuel Chappell (d. 1834), who founded the business. William Chappell deserves remembrance for having started the Musical Antiquarian So ciety in 1840 and for his Popular Music of the Olden Time 50—an expansion of a collection of "national English airs" made by him in 1838-40. The modern revival of interest in English folk-songs owes much to this work, which has since been re-edited by Professor H. E. Wooldridge (1893) . His brother, Thomas Patey Chappell (d. 1902), started (1859) the Monday and Saturday Popular Concerts at St. James's Hall, which were successfully managed by a younger brother, S. Arthur Chappell, till they came to an end towards the close of the last century.