 In 1999, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Country Landowners' Association and the Rural Community.He is the son of Anthony John Stanhope Duckworth, the son of George Herbert Duckworth and Margaret Leonora Evelyn Selina Herbert.Anthony Duckworth-Chad's grandfather, Sir George Duckworth (1868–1934), was a half-brother of the painter Vanessa Bell and the writer Virginia Woolf (the latter charged George and her other half-brother, Gerald, with molesting her as a child and teenager).