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CHETWYND, JOHN, youngest son of William Richard Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (qv); b. 16 Nov 1723; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1732; KS 1738; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1743, matr. 1 Jun 1743, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1743 - res 23 Dec 1747; migrated to Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 31 Dec 1747; MA 1750; adm. Middle Temple 9 Feb 1741/2; ordained priest (Winchester) 23 Oct 1748; Precentor of Cork from 15 May 1752; m. Judith Piggott; d. 1757.

CHETWYND, RICHARD WALTER, 6TH VISCOUNT CHETWYND (I), only son of Richard Chetwynd, 5th Viscount Chetwynd (I), and Charlotte, dau. of Thomas Cartwright, Aynho, Northants; grandson of William Chetwynd, 4th Viscount Chetwynd (qv); b. 13 Dec 1800; adm. Christmas 1813; in school list Oct 1814; Ensign, 52nd Foot, 29 Jan 1818; Ensign and Lieut., 1st Foot Guards, 28 Feb 1822; retd. 20 Nov 1822; succ. father as 6th Viscount Chetwynd (I), 27 Feb 1821; m. 1st, 29 Aug 1822 Mary, dau. of Robert Moss, and niece of Right Rev. Charles Moss DD, Bishop of Oxford; m. 2nd, 24 Sep 1861 Mary, dau. of John Hussey, Recorder of Lyme Regis; d. 6 Dec 1879.

CHETWYND, THOMAS, second son of William Richard Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 2 Feb 1721 (IGI); adm. (aged 7) Mar 1727/8; left 1733; d. at sea.

CHETWYND, WALTER, 1ST VISCOUNT CHETWYND (I), eldest son of John Chetwynd MP, Ingestre, Staffs., and Lucy, dau. of Thomas Roane, Tolhurst Farm, Merstham, Surrey; bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 3 Jun 1678 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1693; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 28 May 1696; of Ingestre, Staffs.; MP Stafford 26 Dec 1702-10, 24 Jan 1712-22, 4 Feb 1725-34; Master of the Buckhounds to Prince George of Denmark and Queen Anne 13 Jun 1709 - Jun 1711; Ranger of St. James’s Park and Keeper of the Mall 1714-27; created Viscount Chetwynd (I) 29 Jun 1717; High Steward of Stafford, 1717; Thomas Newton (qv) relates a curious story of Chetwynd’s “alarming illness”, which was cured by his drinking some small beer after some 750 guineas had been wasted in medical advice (Bishop Newton’s Works, 1787, i, 33); m. 27 May 1703 Hon. Mary Berkeley, Maid of Honour to Queen Anne, eldest dau. of John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge; d. 21 Feb 1735/6. [presumably Paymaster of Pensions 18 Mar 1718 – May 1731 ?]

CHETWYND, WILLIAM HENRY, brother of Sir George Chetwynd, Bart (qv); b. 14 Sep 1812; adm. 17 Jan 1827 (G); Cornet, 7th Hussars, 2 Nov 1830; Lieut., 15 Jun 1832; retd. 12 Aug 1834; of Longdon Hall, Staffs.; DL JP Staffordshire; m. 1st, 15 Aug 1854 (div. 1865) Blanche, eldest dau. of Hon. and Rev. Arthur Talbot, Rector of Ingestre, Staffs.; m. 2nd, 7 Dec 1875 Mary, third dau. of James Parkin, Grove Park, Wrexham, Denbighshire; d. 5 Jul 1890.

CHETWYND, WILLIAM RICHARD, 3RD VISCOUNT CHETWYND (I), brother of Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1699; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1703, matr. 8 Jun 1703, aged 19, Westminster Student 20 Dec 1703 - void 1715; adm. Middle Temple 8 Dec 1707, called to bar 7 May 1714; secretary to elder brother John when Envoy at Turin 1705-6, 1706-13; British Resident, Genoa, Jun 1708 - Mar 1711, Envoy Extraordinary there Mar 1711 - Feb 1713; MP Stafford 1715-22, Plymouth 1722-7, Stafford from 1734; a Lord of the Admiralty, 16 Apr 1717 - Aug 1727; Master of the Mint 29 Dec 1744 - 3 Jun 1769; succ. his brother as 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (I) 21 Jun 1767; m. 1715 Honora, dau. of William Baker, Consul at Algiers; d. 3 Apr 1770. DNB.

CHETWYND, WILLIAM, 4TH VISCOUNT CHETWYND (I), eldest son of William Richard Chetwynd, 3rd Viscount Chetwynd (qv); b. 25 Nov 1721; adm. Mar 1727/8; KS 1733; left 1737; Hart Hall, Oxford, matr. 2 Dec 1737; [perhaps William Richard Chetwynd who was an Under-Secretary of State Dec 1744- Apr 1748]; MP Stockbridge 1747-54; Equerry to George II 24 May 1758- Oct 1760; succ. father as 4th Viscount Chetwynd (I) 3 Apr 1770; disinherited by father; m. 19 Nov 1751 Susannah, youngest dau. of Sir Jonathan Cope, Bart, MP; d. 12 Nov 1791.

CHETWYND, WILLIAM, only son of John Chetwynd (qv); b. ; in school list 1764; KS (aged 13) 1767; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1771, adm. pens. 29 May 1771, but did not reside; adm. Lincoln’s Inn, 24 Jun 1771; Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. fellow commoner 1 Oct 1771; BA 1775; High Sheriff, co. Cork, 1783; m. 1783 Penelope, dau. of John Carleton, Woodside, co. Cork; killed in action with the Irish rebels, at Saintfield, co. Down, 11 Jun 1798.

Cheyne, Charles Hartwell Horne; eldest son of Rev.Charles Cheyne, Second Master, Christ’s Hospital School, London, and Sarah Anne, dau. of Rev.Thomas Hartwell Horne FSA, Assistant Librarian, Department of Printed Books, British Museum, Rector of St Edmund the King, London, and Prebendary of St.Paul’s ; b. 1 May 1838 ; ed. Merchant Taylors’ Sch. and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm.pens. 9 Jun 1857, matr.Mich.1857, scholar ; BA and 18th Wrangler 1861 ; MA 1864 ; Assistant Master (Mathematics) Jan 1863 – Dec 1876 ; House Master of Home Boarders at 1 Dean’s Yard ; Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society 1868 ; author, An Elementary Treatise on the Planetary Theory, 1862 (2nd ed., 1870), and The Earth’s Motion of Rotation, 1867 ; d. unm. 1 Jan 1877. The Cheyne Prizes for Arithmetic were founded in his memory by his father.

CHEYNE, CHARLES, son of Thomas Cheyne (IGI); bapt. Lilley, Herts. 7 Sep 1714 (IGI); in school lists 1726, 1727; BB.