Family and Education
bap. 3 June 1678, 1st s. of John Chetwynd*, and bro. of John† and William Richard Chetwynd†. educ. Westminster c.1692–6; Christ Church, Oxf. matric. 28 May 1696, aged 18. m. 27 May 1703 (with £6,000), Mary, da. and coh. of John Berkeley*, Visct. Fitzhardinge [I], maid of honour to Queen Mary, s.p. suc. fa. 1702; cr. Visct. Chetwynd of Bearhaven [I] 29 June 1717. IGI, London; H. E. Chetwynd-Stapylton, Chetwynds of Ingestre, 227; J. C. Wedgwood, Staffs. Parl. Hist. (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc.), ii. 193.
Offices Held
Master of buckhounds (jt.) to Prince George of Denmark 1705–9, master (sole) to Queen Anne 1709–by June 1711; ranger of St. James’s Park 1714–27.
High steward, Stafford 1717–d.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Ingestre, Staffs.
Volume
Commons 1690-1715
Web Title
CHETWYND, Walter II (1678-1736)
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