CHUTE, Sir Walter (c.1574-1617), of Bethersden, Kent and Whitehall, Westminster

Family and Education

b. c. 1574, 2nd s. of George Chute (d.1618) of Bethersden and Elizabeth, da. of Edward Gage of Bentley, Suss.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 96; A.J. Pearman, ‘Chutes of Bethersden, Appledore, and Hinxhill’, Arch. Cant. xviii. 59-60. educ. Hart Hall, Oxf. 1588, aged 14; G. Inn 1593; Al. Ox.; GI Admiss. unm. Kntd. 23 Apr. 1603. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 103. bur. 29 Dec. 1617 29 Dec. 1617. St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxv), 175.

Offices Held

Vol. Azores 1597, Flushing garrison 1600, Ire. 1601. W. Raleigh, Hist. of the World (1617), 362; Sidney Letters ed. A. Collins, ii. 199; HMC 7th Rep. 525.

Commr. sewers, Kent and Suss. 1602, 1609, 1611, 1616 – 17, Kent 1605; C181/1, ff. 28v, 121v; 181/2, ff. 88, 150v, 247v, 295. j.p. Kent 1606 – 14, 1617–d. Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 28, 121; C231/4, f. 39.

Gent. pens. by 1603-at least 1609; LC2/4/4, f. 60; E179/70/121. sewer of chamber by 1613; Coke, Reps. xii. 116. carver 1614. Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton ed. L. Pearsall Smith, ii. 37.

Member, embassy to France 1610. HMC Downshire, ii. 371.

Member, Virg. Co. 1610. T.K. Rabb, Enterprise and Empire, 265.

Parlimentarian

CHUTE, Sir Walter (c.1574-1617), of Bethersden, Kent and Whitehall, Westminster

Main residences: Bethersden, Kent; Whitehall, Westminster.

Author

J.P.F.

Volume

Commons 1604-1629

Web Title

CHUTE, Sir Walter (c.1574-1617)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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