Sir Benjamin Tichborne, 1st Baronet (c. 1542 – 6 September 1621) was an English landowner, courtier and politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1588 and 1593. Tichborne was the son of Nicholas Tichborne, of

Tichborne Tichborne is a village and civil parish east of Winchester in Hampshire, England. History In archaeology in the south of the parish within the South Downs National Park is a bell barrow, bowl barrow and regular aggregate field system immediat ...

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and his second wife Elizabeth Rythe, sister of James Rythe. He was

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from 1579 to 1580. In 1588, he was elected

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for

Petersfield Petersfield is a market town and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is north of Portsmouth. The town has its own railway station on the Portsmouth Direct line, the mainline rail link connecting Portsmouth a ...

. He was elected MP for

in 1593. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth at Tichborne when she was on her way to Basing in 1601. He was Sheriff of Hampshire again from 1602 to 1603 in which capacity he proclaimed the accession of

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in March 1603 at

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. He was

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to King James, who visited Tichborne on several occasions, and gave him the Castle of Winchester in fee farm. He was created

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on 8 March 1621. Tichborne died on 6 September 1621, in his 80s, and was buried at Tichborne, Hampshire.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 1'' 1900
Accessed 31 December 2022. Tichborne married firstly to a Miss Shelley, of

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. She died without issue. He married, secondly, by licence dated 17 May 1571, Amphillis Weston, daughter of Richard Weston, of Skreens, Essex. Sir Benjamin had four sons and at least three daughters by his second marriage: #

Sir Richard Tichborne, 2nd Baronet Sir Richard Tichborne, 2nd Baronet (1578 – April 1657) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1597. He was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War. Tichborne was the oldest son of Sir Benjamin Tichborne, 1st ...

Walter Tichborne Walter Tichborne (c.1580–1637) of Aldershot in Hampshire was MP for Petersfield from 1614 to 1621. Early life and marriage He was born in about 1580, the second son of Sir Benjamin Tichborne, (died 1629), the first Tichborne baronet of ...

(1580–1640), knighted, married 1597 to Mary White (c. 1581–1620) daughter of Robert White of

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; Walter built Aldershot Manor House now in

Aldershot Park Aldershot Park is an urban park in the town of Aldershot in Hampshire. The park is located on Guildford Road near Aldershot Cricket Club and the Lido and is owned and maintained by Rushmoor Borough Council.West Tisted West Tisted is a small village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is northwest of Petersfield, just off the A32 road. The nearest railway station is the restored Ropley station on the Watercress Line, trains from which co ...

Manor where he is buried. He is reported to have fought for the Royalist cause at the Battle of Cheriton (1644) and afterwards hidden in a hollow oak tree in West Tisted. #

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, knighted, moved to Ireland and was involved in the

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1641. # Elizabeth, married first Robert Garth (died 1612) (separated c. 1602) Marital Litigation in the Court of Requests 1542-1642, ed. Tim Stretton, Camden Fifth Series, Vol 32, CUP for the Royal Historical Society, 2008, see pp. 193-216 She married secondly William Owen # Ann, married firstly William Brock of Longwood, a descendant of the Arundells of Wardour, who intermarried with the Tichbornes several times. Ann married secondly William Timperley. # Amphilis married Sir William Gratwicke (knighted 1607) of

Ulverston Ulverston is a market town and a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 11,524, increasing at the 2011 census to 11,678. Historically in Lancashire, it lies a few mi ...

, Lancashire and

Tortington Tortington is a small village in the Arun District, Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies between the Arundel to Ford, West Sussex, Ford and the Arundel to Chichester roads, southwest of Arundel (where the population taken at the 2011 Ce ...

, Sussex.

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