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 on the Julliberrie Downs east of the river. Chilham and the surrounding area was one of the locations for much of Powell and Pressburger's 1944 film "A Canterbury Tale". 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, and it was also used as a location for the BBC's 2009 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Emma". The village and the castle featured heavily in a fake snow-bound episode of "Agatha Christie's Poirot" called "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" starring David Suchet. The village was made over