| 词条 | Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven |
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Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven (23 October 1625 – 30 June 1698) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1698. LifeCheyne was the son of Francis Cheyne of Chesham Bois and his wife Anne Fleetwood, daughter of Sir William Fleetwood of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire.[1] He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford on 29 January 1640, aged 14 and was of Lincoln's Inn in 1642, (as Cheney).[2] He inherited Cogenho, Northamptonshire in 1644 and purchased the manor of Chelsea and Chelsea Place with the dowry of his wife, Lady Jane Cavendish, 1657. He paid for the house in installments beginning in 1657 with £1,900 and made the final payment for whole estate in 1661 at a total cost of £13,626.[3] In 1660, Cheyne was elected Member of Parliament for Amersham in the Convention Parliament.[1] He was elected MP for Great Marlow in March 1669 to the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679.[1] He was created Viscount Newhaven (in Scotland) on 17 May 1681. In 1690 he was elected MP for Harwich[1] and Newport (Cornwall)[1] and chose to sit for Harwich until 1695. In 1695 he was elected MP for Newport and sat until his death. Cheyne died at the age of 72 and was buried at Chelsea Old Church on 13 July 1698,[1] where a monument on the north wall commemorated him and his wife Lady Jane Cheyne who was a considerable benefactress of the building.[4] FamilyCheyne married Lady Jane Cavendish, daughter of the first Duke of Newcastle and had a son, William Cheyne, who became 2nd Viscount Newhaven, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Catharine.[5] His second wife was Isabella, Countess of Radnor widow of Johh Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, and daughter of Sir John Smyth of Bidborough, Kent.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 History of Parliament Online - Cheyne, Charles {{DEFAULTSORT:Newhaven, Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount}}2. ^'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Chaffey-Chivers', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 255-273. Date accessed: 6 April 2011 3. ^'Landownership: Chelsea manor', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12: Chelsea (2004), pp. 108-115. Date accessed: 6 April 2011 4. ^'Religious history: The parish church', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12: Chelsea (2004), pp. 238-250. Date accessed: 6 April 2011 5. ^{{cite DNB|wstitle= Cheyne, Charles |first=Thomas Finlayson|last=Henderson|volume=10}} 15 : 1625 births|1698 deaths|Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford|Members of Lincoln's Inn|Place of birth missing|Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall|English MPs 1661–1679|Cheyne family|People of the Stuart period|English MPs 1660|English MPs 1690–1695|English MPs 1695–1698|Viscounts in the Peerage of Scotland|Peers of Scotland created by Charles II|Burials at Chelsea Old Church |
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