Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne (31 May 1540 – 3 September 1587) was an English politician. Henry Cheyne was the son of Sir Thomas Cheyne of Shurland in the

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, Kent, by his second wife, Anne Broughton (d. 16 May 1562), daughter of John Broughton (d. 24 January 1518) of

Toddington, Bedfordshire Toddington is a large village and civil parish in the county of Bedfordshire, England. It is situated 5 miles north-north-west of Luton, north of Dunstable, south-west of Woburn, and 35 miles north-north-west of London on the B5120 ...

, and Anne Sapcote (d. 14 March 1559), and granddaughter of Sir Robert Broughton by his first wife, Katherine de Vere, said to have been the illegitimate daughter of

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. Cheyne was trained in the law at Gray's Inn. He inherited his father's estates in Kent in 1558, and his mother's estates in Bedfordshire in 1562. He was knighted in 1563.Cheyne, Sir Thomas (1482/87-1558), of the Blackfriars, London and Shurland, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, History of Parliament
Retrieved 18 August 2013. He was elected

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(MP) for

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from 1562 to 1567 and for

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from 1572 until made Baron Cheyne in May 1572. He was appointed

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for 1565. He held the title Baron Cheyne from 1572 until his death in 1587, after which the title became extinct. He had married Jane, the daughter of

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth and ''de jure'' 6th Baron le Despencer, PC (15013 March 1551) was an English peer and courtier during the Tudor dynasty. The Wentworths were originally from Yorkshire but a branch of the family had settled ...

, with whom he had a daughter. He was buried at Toddington.

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