John Cheale (died 28 August 1685) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1679 to 1681. Cheale was of a West Sussex yeoman family from Perching in

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. In 1650 he purchased the manor of

Findon, West Sussex Findon is a semi-rural clustered village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Worthing. Governance An electoral ward in the same name. This ward stretches south west to Patching with ...

Mark Antony Lower ''A Compendious History of Sussex''
/ref> from John Tufton Earl of Thanet. Cheale was elected

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(MP) for New Shoreham in 1679 and held the seat until 1681. Cheale's grandson, another

John Cheale John Cheale (died 28 August 1685) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1679 to 1681. Cheale was of a West Sussex yeoman family from Perching in Edburton. In 1650 he purchased the manor of Findon, West Sussex from John T ...

was

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1685 deaths Year of birth missing English MPs 1679 English MPs 1680–1681 People from Findon, West Sussex People from Horsham District {{17thC-England-MP-stub