Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne (31 May 1540 – 3 September 1587) was an English politician.
Henry Cheyne was the son of Sir Thomas Cheyne of Shurland in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, by his second wife, Anne Broughton (d. 16 May 1562), daughter of John Broughton (d. 24 January 1518)[1][2] of Toddington, Bedfordshire, and Anne Sapcote (d. 14 March 1559), and granddaughter of Sir Robert Broughton by his first wife, Katherine de Vere, said to have been the illegitimate daughter of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford.[3][4][5][6]
Cheyne was trained in the law at Gray's Inn. He inherited his father's estates in Kent in 1558, and his mother's estates in Bedfordshire in 1562. He was knighted in 1563.[5]
He was elected knight of the shire (MP) for Kent from 1562 to 1567 and for Bedfordshire from 1572 until made Baron Cheyne in May 1572. He was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1565.[5]
He held the title Baron Cheyne from 1572 until his death in 1587, after which the title became extinct.[7]
He had married Jane, the daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth.
He was buried at Toddington.[5]
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References
- ^ Copinger 1910, pp. 156, 319.
- ^ Anne Sapcote (d. March 1558/9), A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: Sa-Sn compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984) Archived 21 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 18 August 2013.
- ^ Blaydes 1886, p. 187.
- ^ Blaydes 1884, p. 14.
- ^ a b c d Cheyne, Sir Thomas (1482/87-1558), of the Blackfriars, London and Shurland, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, History of Parliament Retrieved 18 August 2013.
- ^ Lehmberg 2004.
- ^ "Peerage list". www.leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 8 June 2008.
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Sources
- Blaydes, Frederic Augustus, ed. (1886). "Loring Family of Chalgrave". Bedfordshire Notes and Queries. Bedford: Arthur Ransom. I: 187. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
- Blaydes, Frederic Augustus (1884). The Visitations of Bedfordshire. Vol. XIX. London: Harleian Society. p. 14. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
- Copinger, W.A. (1910). The Manors of Suffolk. Vol. 6. Manchester: Taylor, Garnett, Evans and Co. Ltd. pp. 156, 319. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
- Lehmberg, Stanford (2004). "Cheyne, Sir Thomas (c.1485–1558)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5263. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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