Allan Chappelow  Allan Gordon Chappelow FRSA (20 August 1919 – May/June 2006) was an English writer and photographer who lived in Hampstead, north London. He wrote books on George Bernard Shaw and specialised in portraits of writers and musicians. He was found dead at his house in 2006 and a Chinese national, Wang Yam, was convicted of his murder at a retrial in 2009. The son of wealthy decorator, upholsterer and lecturer (including at Copenhagen University; later fine art consultant) Archibald Cecil Chappelow, Chappelow moved with his family to Hampstead at the age of 14, to the house, 9 Downshire Hill, in which he lived for the rest of his life except for his school and student years. He was educated at Oundle School near Peterborough. In the Second World War he was a conscientious objector, working on a farm in Hampshire. He went on to study moral sciences at Trinity College Cambridge between 1946 and 1949, taking an M.A. and twice being a prizeman. In the 1950s he worked as a photographer for the "Daily Mail" and "The Daily Telegraph". Afterwards he became a freelance photographer and writer. As a photographer, Chappelow specialised in portraits of leading literary and theatrical figures and musicians. In 1950 he visited George Bernard Shaw at Ayot St. Lawrence and took the last known photographs of the playwright. Chappelow's books included "Russian Holiday" (London, George Harrap, 1955) – he was a member of the first party of 'ordinary tourists' to be allowed to visit the USSR after the Second World War. His principal works on Shaw are "Shaw the Villager and Human Being – a Biographical symposium", with a preface by Dame Sybil Thorndike (1962), and "Shaw – the 'Chucker-Out"' (1969, ). A recluse and (according to media reports) a millionaire, the elderly Chappelow was found murdered in his house after a sum of money was discovered to have gone missing from his bank account. In October 2006, a British citizen of Chinese birth, Wang Yam, a financial trader also resident in Hampstead, was arrested in Switzerland and charged with the murder. Chappelow's Grade II listed house was sold for £4.1m, and the new owners have submitted plans for it to be refurbished. In December 2007, the Crown Prosecution Service indicated it would ask for Wang's trial for murder, burglary and deception to be held 'in camera'.