John Chetwynd of Ingestre in the County of Stafford Esq by John Smith

John Chetwynd (1643 – 9 December 1702), of Rudge, near

Sandon, Staffordshire Sandon is a village in Staffordshire, about northeast of Stafford. The village is in the Trent Valley on the A51 road. Sandon Park There is a rectangular moated site in Sandon Park, about northeast of the parish church. The site measures abo ...

was an English Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of John Chetwynd of Rudge. He was Member of Parliament for

Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in t ...

from 1689 to 1695, and again in 1701 and 1702. In the intervening period he sat for Tamworth in 1698–1700. He was pricked

High Sheriff of Staffordshire This is a list of the sheriffs and high sheriffs of Staffordshire. The sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. The sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities ass ...

for 1695–96. He died in 1702. He had married, by 1678, Lucy, the daughter of Robert Roane of Tullesworth, Chaldon, Surrey and had 3 sons and a daughter. His son

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inherited the

Ingestre Ingestre is a village and civil parish in the Stafford district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 194. It is four miles to the north-east of the county town of Stafford. Ing ...

estate from his distant cousin

Walter Chetwynd Walter Chetwynd FRS (1 May 1633 – 21 March 1693), of Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire was an English antiquary and politician. Life He was the only child of Walter Chetwynd (1598–1669), the eldest son of Walter Chetwynd (died 1638), who buil ...

the antiquary in 1693, greatly raising the prominence of his branch of the family. Walter was created

Viscount Chetwynd Viscount Chetwynd, of Bearhaven in the County of Kerry, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1717 for Walter Chetwynd, with remainder to the issue male of his father John Chetwynd. He was made Baron Rathdowne, in the County of ...

in 1717, a title to which John's other two sons (John and William) succeeded in turn. His daughter Lucy married Edward Younge,

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.''Burke's Peerage'' (1939 edition), s.v. Chetwynd, Viscount

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1643 births 1702 deaths People from the Borough of Stafford Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Stafford English MPs 1689–1690 English MPs 1690–1695 English MPs 1698–1700 English MPs 1701 English MPs 1701–1702 High Sheriffs of Staffordshire {{18thC-England-MP-stub