Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, 2nd Baronet (c. 1635–1682) of Wickham and of Northbrooke, Oxfordshire,was the son of
Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, 1st Baronet (died 1643), of Wickham, Oxfordshire supported the Cavalier, Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1643.
Biography
Thomas Chamberlayne was the son and heir of Sir Thomas Ch ...
, and probably inherited the
baronetcy on the death of his father on 6 October 1643. The title (one conferred after 4 January 1642) being void under the Act of Parliament (4 February 1652) then in force, on 6 October 1657 he accepted another baronetcy from the
Lord Protector
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Oliver Cromwell, to whose Attorney General,
Edmund Prideaux he was son-in-law. This creation became invalid after the
Restoration
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...
, while his previous one was reinstated. He died late September or early November 1682. The baronetcy passed to
James Chamberlayne, 3rd Baronet.
Family
On 8 April 1657, at
St. Dionis, Backchurch, London, Chamberlayne married Margaret, daughter of
Edmund Prideaux, of Ford Abbey, Devon, by his second wife Margaret, daughter of William Ivert, of Gotthay, Somerset. They had two daughters and coheirs:
* Katharine, who inherited the estate of Wickham, became Viscountess Wenman, and, subsequently
Countess of Abingdon.
* Penelope, who inherited the estate of Northbrooke, married
Robert Dashwood, who was created a baronet, in 1684, as "
baronet of Northbrook".
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Year of birth uncertain
1682 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
17th-century English nobility
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