CHICHELEY, Sir John (c.1640-91), of Southampton Square, Bloomsbury, Mdx.

Family and Education

b. c. 1640, 2nd s. of Thomas Chicheley† of Wimpole, Cambs. and Great Queen Street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. by his 1st w. Sarah, da. of Sir William Russell, 1st Bt.†, of Chippenham, Cambs. educ. I. Temple 1657. m. c.1667, Isabella (d. 1709), da. and coh. of Sir John Lawson of Alresford, Essex, wid. of Daniel Norton of Southwick, Hants, 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 2da. Kntd. June 1665. Le Neve’s Knights (Harl. Soc. viii), 234; Lyme Letters ed. Lady Newton, 25.

Offices Held

Lt. RN 1662, capt. 1663, r.-adm. 1673–5; envoy, Spanish Netherlands 1670; commr. navy 1675–80, Ordnance 1679–82; ld. of Admiralty 1682–4, 1689–90. Commissioned Sea Officers of RN 1660–1815 (Navy Recs. Soc. occ. pub. 1), 80; Cal. Treas. Bks. vi. 140; Hatton Corresp. (Cam. Soc. n.s. xxii), 13; J. Ehrman, Navy in War of Wm. III, 639.

Freeman, Portsmouth 1675, Liverpool 1686; conservator, Bedford Level 1683–d. R. East, Portsmouth Recs. 361; Wahlstrand thesis, 58; S. Wells, Drainage of Bedford Level, i. 463–5.

Parlimentarian

CHICHELEY, Sir John (c.1640-91), of Southampton Square, Bloomsbury, Mdx.

Main residence: Southampton Square, Bloomsbury, Mdx.

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Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

CHICHELEY, Sir John (c.1640-91)

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Oxford 1644

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