Henry Tichborne, 1st Baron Ferrard (1663 – 3 November 1731), known as Sir Henry Tichborne, Bt, between 1697 and 1715, was an Irish peer. Tichborne was the eldest son of Sir William Tichborne of Beaulieu,

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and his wife Judith Bysse, daughter of

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and his wife Margaret King (née Edgeworth); his other grandfather being the statesman and general

Sir Henry Tichborne Sir Henry Tichborne PC (Ire) (1581–1667) was an English soldier and politician. He excelled at the Siege of Drogheda during the Irish Rebellion of 1641. He governed Ireland as one of the two Lord Justices from 1642 to 1644. In 1647, he foug ...

, a younger son of the Tudor MP,

Sir Benjamin Tichborne, 1st Baronet Sir Benjamin Tichborne, 1st Baronet (c. 1542 – 6 September 1621) was an English landowner, courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1588 and 1593. Biography Tichborne was the son of Nicholas Tichborn ...

, of Tichborne (see

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). His paternal grandmother was Jane Newcomen, daughter of Sir Robert Newcomen. He represented

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and

in the

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. As an ardent supporter of the

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, he was created a Baronet, of Beaulieu in the County of Louth, in the

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on 12 July 1697. In 1714 he was made a member of the

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. On 9 October 1715 he was raised to the

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as Baron Ferrard, of Beaulieu in the County of Louth.

Family

He married Arabella, daughter of Sir Robert Cotton and Hester Salusbury. They had four sons (William, Cotton, Robert & Henry), all of whom died before their father leaving no male issue, so that at his death in 1731 his titles became extinct. His only surviving daughter, Salisbury Tichborne, married in 1713 William Aston, MP for

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, grandson of the prominent judge Sir

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, and had issue including

Tichborne Aston Tichborne Aston (1 November 1716 – 4 March 1748) was an Irish politician. He was the son of William Aston, MP for Dunleer, and his wife Hon. Salisbury Tichborne, daughter of Henry Tichborne, 1st Baron Ferrard and Arabella Cotton; The Asto ...

MP. Their descendants still live at Beaulieu. A younger son of Lord Ferrard, William, married in 1712 his close relative Charlotte Amelia Molesworth (daughter of

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of Swords, who was half brother of Baron Ferrard through their mother Judith Bysse) and had two daughters, Arabella, who married Francis Wyatt and Wilhelmina. Charlotte Amelia was a Woman of the Bedchamber to Princess

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1721-27.Worsley, Lucy, 2010, Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court Another son Henry (1684-1709) married Mary Fowke but died of drowning, without issue. His niece Judith Tichborne (died 1749) was the third wife of the leading English statesman

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. Judith was the daughter of Ferrard's younger brother Sir Benjamin Tichborne and Elizabeth Gibbs. She and Sunderland had three children who all died young. After his death, she remarried the diplomat Sir Robert Sutton, and had surviving issue, including the statesman

Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet Sir Richard Sutton, 1st Baronet MP (31 July 1733 – 10 January 1802), of Norwood Park in Nottinghamshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1768 to 1796. Family background and education Sutton was the younger son o ...

. Lord Ferrard was largely responsible for the completion of Beaulieu House, the main Tichborne residence, in its present form, which had been begun by his grandfather, Sir Henry Tichborne in 1666.

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Beaulieu House website: history section
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