The Chomleys were a Victorian-based family prominent in that state's political, judicial and literary life in the 19th and 20th centuries.

One of Australia's famous literary and artistic families founded by William à Beckett and Emma Mills (1838-1906).

Martin à Beckett Boyd, writer and artist, was born in Switzerland, educated in Melbourne, and after World War I settled in England and then Rome.

Charles Henry Chomley was an Australian author, journalist and newspaper editor. In the early 1900s he edited 'the Arena', an illustrated Melbourne weekly, devoted to the arts, politics and fashionable society. Chomley sailed for England in 1907 and in April 1908 became editor (and later proprietor) of the 'British-Australasian', an established weekly which catered mainly for Australian expatriates and visitors, dealing with political, economic and commercial matters affecting Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Chomley published four novels: 'The Last Fare: A Melbourne Detective Story' (1897), 'The Wisdom of Esau' (1901), 'Mark Meredith: A Tale of Socialism' (1905) and 'The Long Lost Galleon' (1905). He also authored short stories, a book for children and a biography of the Kelly gang. Chomley is the uncle of writer Martin Boyd.

Emeritus Professor Warwick Gould is a scholar of English and Irish Literature and the history of the book. He was a Professor of English Literature at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London until 2013 and was the Founder Director of the Institute of English Studies within the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. He has published regularly on Yeats.

Ethel Frances à Beckett Chomley, later Knight, was the daughter of Charles Henry Chomley and Ethel Beatrice Ysobel à Beckett. In 1916, she and her sister Isla started working at Great Chatwell in Staffordshire as part of the Women's Land Army, where they remained until 1918.

Emma Minnie Boyd, born Emma Minnie à Beckett, was an Australian artist who studied at the National Gallery Design School in Melbourne and went on to exhibit oil and watercolour paintings in Australia and at the Royal Academy in London. She was the mother of novelist Martin Boyd.