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

Family and Education

b. c. 1578, 1st s. of Benjamin Tichborne of Tichborne by his 2nd w. Amphillis, da. of Richard Weston, justice of the common pleas. educ. M. Temple 1595. m. (1) Ellen (d.1606), da. and coh. of Robert White of Aldershot, 1da.; (2) c.1616, Susan, da. and coh. of William Waller of Oldstoke and Stoke Charity, 3s. 3da. Kntd. 11 May 1603. suc. fa. to lands and as 2nd Bt. 1629.

Offices Held

Jt. keeper (with his fa.) of Winchester castle 1604; ranger of West Beare forest by 1610; dep. lt. Hants by 1627; gent. of the bedchamber to Charles I; ambassador to the Queen of Bohemia; royalist commander in the civil war. CP; Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 126; CSP Dom. 1603–10, pp. 76, 634; 1627–8, p. 106; GEC Baronetage, i. 160–1.

Parlimentarian

TICHBORNE, Sir Richard (c.1578-1652), of Winchester Castle, Hants and Drury Court, Westminster.

Main residence: Tichborne, Hants.

Author

R.C.G.

Volume

Commons 1558-1603

Web Title

TICHBORNE, Richard (c.1578-1652)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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