Family and Education
bap. 27 Apr. 1561,Misc. Gen. et Her. (ser. 5), x. 296-7. 1st s. of James Cheke (d.1574) of Mottistone and Elizabeth, da. of one Thornhill of Wooland, Dorset. Vis. Hants (Harl. Soc. lxiv), 54; PROB 11/56, f. 193. educ. Christ Church, Oxf. BA 1583; Thavies Inn 1583; L. Inn 1583, called 1591. Al. Ox.; LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. ii. 20. m. (1) by 1589, Dorothy, da. of William Geffrey, merchant, of Newport, I.o.W., 3s. 2da.; W. Berry, Hants Gen. 98. (2) aft. 14 Sept. 1617, ‘his young wife’, s.p. PROB 11/131, f. 400. suc. grandfa. 1575. Hants RO, 1575B/12. d. 22 Jan. 1618. C142/367/14.
Offices Held

Escheator, Hants and Wilts. 1593–4; List of Escheators comp. A.C. Wood (L. and I. Soc. lxxii), 150. freeman, Southampton, Hants 1599, HMC 11th Rep. III, 22. recorder 1611–d.; Soton Assembly Bks. 1611–14 ed. J.W. Horrocks (Soton Rec. Soc. xxiv), 20–1. j.p. Hants by 1601 – d., chairman of q. sess.; C66/1549, 1620, 1988; Royalist’s Notebk. ed. F. Bamford, 140. freeman, Yarmouth, I.o.W. 1604, steward 1609–d.; Add. 5669, f. 7; R. Worsley, Hist. I.o.W. 160. commr. survey, Sandown Castle, I.o.W. 1608, SP14/34/29. subsidy, I.o.W. 1608, SP14/31/1. gaol delivery, Southampton 1611–d.; C181/2, ff. 160, 298v. steward to Winchester chapter by 1614–d. Hants RO, 44M69/G2/41.

Main residences: Mottistone, I.o.W; Lincoln's Inn, London.
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Commons 1604-1629
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CHEKE, Thomas I (1561-1618)

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