John Hermengil Tichborne (1679 – 5 May 1748) was a

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and the 5th Baronet Tichborne. He succeeded to the title on the death of his older brother Henry Joseph Tichborne, the 4th Baronet in 1743. Born in Tichborne in

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in 1679, John Hermengil Tichborne was a younger son of Henry Tichborne, the 3rd Baronet, and Mary ''née'' Arundel (1622–1698), the daughter of Charles Arundell, a younger brother of Thomas, Lord Arundell of Wardour, a Catholic family. John Hermengil Tichborne was one of four sons and five daughters, four of whom died in infancy.Walter, John
Tichborne, Sir Henry, third baronet (bap. 1624, d. 1689)
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'' (ODNB) online These included: Henry Joseph Tichborne, the 4th baronet; John and Charles Tichborne, who both died young; Winifred, who died as an infant; Lettice, who married Henry Whettenhall and whose son, Henry, also became a Jesuit priest in Europe; Mary, who became a nun; and Frances, who in 1694 married John Paston. The Tichborne's were one of the leading

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families in

, and John Hermengil Tichborne entered the

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on 21 October 1700 aged 21 and professed on 2 February 1717. Between 1728 and his death in 1748 he lived mostly at

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in Belgium.Frans Korsten, Jos Blom and Frans Blom
''The Two Lives of Thomas Metcalfe''
''British Catholic History'', Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2015 Father Sir John Hermengil Tichborne died unmarried in Ghent in Belgium in 1748.Cokayne, George Edward. (ed)
''The Complete Baronetage''
Volume I (1611—1625), Exeter: William Pollard & Co. Ltd., (1900), page 161 The title passed to Sir Henry Tichborne, the 6th Baronet.

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