Sir Richard Tichborne, 2nd Baronet (1578 – April 1657) was an English politician who sat in the

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from 1597. He was a

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commander in the

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. Tichborne was the oldest son of

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. Tichborne was the son of Nicholas Tichborne, of Tich ...

of Tichborne and his second wife Amphillis Weston, daughter of Richard Weston,

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. The Tichbornes were one of the leading

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families in the county, but like his father and brothers, Tichborne outwardly conformed to the

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. However, his career at Court was damaged when he was denounced in the

by Sir

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on 27 April 1624 for the

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of his second wife and children. His situation was made more difficult by his inability to stay out of debt, mainly caused by his wish to be noticed at the Court of

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. His brother was

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 ...

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. Richard Tichborne was a student of the

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in 1595. In 1597 he was elected

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for

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. He was knighted at the

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on 11 May 1603. George Edward Cockayne ''Complete Baronets Vol 1'' 1900
/ref> In 1604 he became joint keeper of

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with his father. He was a ranger of West Beare forest by 1610. In 1614 he was elected MP for

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. He was elected MP for Winchester in 1621 and was re-elected in 1624, 1625, 1626 and 1628. He was again presented for his wife's

on 20 March 1626 but regardless the king appointed him Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire by 1627.''Proceedings'' (1626), ii. 139, 321, 323; iii. 140, 146; iv. 214 His wife's recusancy was complained of once more on 14 June 1628. He succeeded to the family estates and the

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on the death of his father on 11 September 1629. In the same year he built a sub-manor at

, which was later sold and which in 1808 became Aldershot Workhouse. He became a gentleman of the bedchamber to

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. In 1622 to 1623 he accompanied his cousin Sir Richard Weston on a diplomatic mission to

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, in the

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, and may also have visited

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. History of Parliament Online - Richard Tichborne
/ref> During the Civil War, Tichborne was a Royalist commander and held Winchester Castle for the King. His estates were sequestrated on 30 September 1650. Memorial St Michaels Aldershot

Tichborne died at the age of 79. Tichborne married firstly Ellen White, oldest daughter of Sir Robert White of

. She died on 18 May 1606, aged 27 and he married secondly on 7 July 1608, Susan Waller, daughter of William Waller of Oldstoke and Stoke Charity. They had three sons and three daughters. His son Henry Tichborne succeeded to the baronetcy on his father's death in 1657 and also inherited his father's considerable debts - said by his father in 1650 to have been £15,000.Walter, John
Tichborne, Sir Henry, third baronet (bap. 1624, d. 1689)
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'' (ODNB) online Henry Tichborne set about restoring the family's fortunes, and by the time of the Restoration in 1660 he had restored his income to about £1,000 a year.

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