John Whyte-Melville-Skeffington, 13th Viscount Massereene the Shipwrights' Company. He was one of the original pioneers in the commercial development of Cape Canaveral, and a director of numerous companies. He was for some time a member of the Senechal Council of Canterbury Cathedral, a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and a Vice-President of the Kent branch of the Royal British Legion. He was also chairman of the Victoria League, Kent. A very extensive landowner, his English seat was at Chilham Castle, Kent. The Norman Keep of the Castle, which is the oldest building in the village and still inhabited, dates from 1174 and was said
Chilham Castle early 1920s, again replacing a very different 19th century one. From 1949 until his death in 1992 it was owned by the Hon. John Clotworthy Talbot Foster Whyte-Melville Skeffington Chilham Castle is currently owned by UKIP activist Stuart Wheeler, who lives there with his three daughters, Sarah, Jacquetta, and Charlotte. Stuart's wife the photographer Tessa Codrington died in 2016. The site now hosts the Chilham Park Equestrian Centre. In 1965 it was used for part of the filming of "The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders" starring Kim Novak, Leo McKern and Angela Lansbury. In 1985 Chilham Castle featured in an