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Chipperfield's Circus is a British family touring show, continuing a 300-year-old family business.[1]
Chipperfield's Circus originates with James Chipperfield with his performing animals at the Thames Frost Fair of 1684. Through the 19th century, the circus toured all of England, with a menagerie of animals, teams of acrobats and clowns. After World War II, under the management of Jimmy Chipperfield, the circus became one of the largest in Europe, with a tent that could hold 6,000 people. The family in the same headship diversified into safari parks (in England founding those at Windsor and Knowsley and co-founding with the Marquess of Bath, Longleat Safari Park as well, with the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Safari Park) and supplying fairgrounds supplies. Since his death in 1990, the circus has toured only intermittently, sometimes featuring members of the extended Chipperfield family.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
- ^ Great dynasties of the world: The Chipperfields The Guardian Retrieved 18 February 2011
- ^ Chipperfield's Circus: An Illustrated History Hardcover, by David Jamieson, Circus Friends Association of Great Britain, June 1997
- ^ McPherson, Douglas (29 May 2014). "Chipperfield". Chipperfield, History and last lion tammer, By Douglas McPherson, 29 May 2014. Telegraph UK. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ Chipperfield's Circus : An Illustrated History, By David Jamieson, Circus Friends Association of Great Britain
- ^ The Guardian, Great dynasties of the world: The Chipperfields, by Ian Sansom, 14 May 2010
- ^ Heard Family History, Chipperfields – the Circus Dynasty
- ^ Charles Chipperfield Entertainments UK website