TICHBORNE, Richard (c.1578-1652), of Tichborne, Hants.

Tichborne’s political career lies outside the Elizabethan period. His election while still a minor for Lyme Regis was due to the 3rd Marquess of Winchester, to whose mistress Jane Lambert he was related. Tichborne was possibly the ‘very good friend and neighbour’ mentioned by Lucy, wife of the 4th Marquess, in a letter to her uncle Sir Robert Cecil about a quarrel at the assizes in April 1601. Serjeant John Hele was accused of an offence against Tichborne, whom the Marchioness asked Cecil to favour for ‘his many good offices’.HMC Hatfield, xi. 177, 188.

After serving Charles I almost throughout his reign, Tichborne suffered sequestration of his estates in 1650. He died in April 1652.