Chaloner Chute I (died 14 April 1659) of

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, Sherborne St John, Hampshire, was an English lawyer, Member of Parliament and

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during the

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Origins

Chute was the son of Charles Chute of the Middle Temple, a lawyer, by his wife Ursula Chaloner, a daughter of John Chaloner of Fulham in Middlesex.

Career

Memorial to Chaloner Chute in the chapel of The Vyne in Hampshire

He was admitted to the

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and was

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. He developed a great reputation as a defence lawyer in several high-profile cases including those of Sir Edward Herbert (the king's attorney-general), Archbishop Laud, the eleven members of the House of Commons charged by Fairfax and his army as delinquents, and James Duke of Hamilton. In 1653 he bought from Lord Sandys

, a very large Tudor manor house in Hampshire. He demolished much of the northern part of the decaying building and employed the architect John Webb, a pupil of Inigo Jones, to add the portico to the north front in the 1650s, the first of its kind on an

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. Chute was elected as a Member of Parliament for

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in the

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in 1656, but was prevented from taking his seat. He was elected again for Middlesex to the

Third Protectorate Parliament The Third Protectorate Parliament sat for one session, from 27 January 1659 until 22 April 1659, with Chaloner Chute and Thomas Bampfylde as the Speakers of the House of Commons. It was a bicameral Parliament, with an Upper House having a po ...

in 1659 and became its first Speaker. However shortly afterwards he stood down because of ill health and died in April 1659.

Memorial

The magnificent memorial to Chaloner Chute was commissioned by his descendant Sir John Chute (d.1776) and designed and created by Thomas Carter the Younger of London. It is made of Carrera marble and cost £335. It was begun in 1775 and completed some time after Sir John's death in 1776.

Marriages and issue

Chute married twice: *Firstly to Anne Skory, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Skory/Scory of Wormesley, Herefordshire, and widow of William Place of Dorking, Surrey, by whom he had issue one son and two daughters: ** Chaloner Chute II (1632-1666), son and heir, History of Parliament Online - Chaloner Chute
/ref> MP for Devizes, who married his step-sister Catherine Lennard, a daughter of Richard Lennard, 13th Baron Dacre. **Anne Chute **Cecilia ChuteBurke *Secondly he married Dorothy North, a daughter of

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(1581–1666), and widow of Richard Lennard, 13th Baron Dacre (1596–1630), by whom he had no further issue. Dorothy had been assigned the manor of Sutton Court, Chiswick in 1653, under the Commonwealth. However, following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Sutton Court was given to the Royalist courtier, Sir

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References

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Career

Memorial

Marriages and issue

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