Sir John Chichester, 1st Baronet
Sir John Chichester, 1st Baronet lord of the manor of Raleigh in the parish of Pilton in Devon, was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1667.
Origins
He was the son and heir of Sir Robert Chichester, K.B., of Raleigh, Devon by his second wife Mary Hill, a daughter of Robert Hill of Shilston in the parish of Modbury in Devon.Career
He succeeded to Raleigh on the death of his father on 24 April 1627. He was created a baronet on 4 August 1641. In 1661 Chichester was elected a Member of Parliament for Barnstaple in the Cavalier Parliament and sat until his death in 1667 at the age of about 44.Marriages and children
Chichester married twice:- Firstly to Elizabeth Rayney, a daughter of Sir John Rayney, 1st Baronet of Wrotham in Kent, by his first wife Catharine Style, a daughter of Thomas Style. By his first wife he had children including:
- *Sir John Chichester, 2nd Baronet
- *Sir Arthur Chichester, 3rd Baronet,
- *Henry
- Secondly to Mary Colly, a daughter of Theodore Colly and widow of George Warcup, a merchant of the City of London. She is recorded as a widow, in the parish of St. Anne's, Blackfriars, on 18 July 1655.