Toby Chauncy (2 February 1674 – 1733), of

Edgcote Edgcote is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Chipping Warden and Edgcote, on the River Cherwell in south-west Northamptonshire, England. The parish was bounded by the river to the north and by one of its tributaries to the ...

, Northamptonshire, was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the

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from 1730 to 1733. Chauncy was the eldest surviving son of Toby Chauncy of Edgcote and his second wife Joan Paul, daughter of William Paul,

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. He matriculated at

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on 6 November 1690. He was admitted to

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and called to the bar in 1699. He or his father had stood unsuccessfully for Banbury at the 1705 English general election. By 1717, Chauncy was Recorder of Banbury. He succeeded his father to Edgcote on 4 March 1725. Chauncy wrote to Lord Guildford, on 24 October 1729, offering to replace him as MP for

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on his elevation to the peerage. Guildford chose William Knollys, known as Lord Wallingford, as his nominee instead, but Chauncy stood at the by-election on 21 January 1730 and was returned as

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with the support of the corporation, winning the contest by one vote. There is no record of his voting in any division. Chauncy died unmarried on 27 March 1733. Edgcote House descended to

Richard Chauncey Richard Chauncey or Chauncy (1690--1760) was a London merchant who was four times the Deputy-Chairman of the East India Company and three times the Chairman. Life Chauncey was born into a well-to-do Northamptonshire family which had owned the Edg ...

in 1742 who built a new mansion between 1747 and 1752.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chauncy, Toby 1674 births 1733 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies British MPs 1727–1734