Chauncy is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

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* Chauncy Harris (1914–2003), American geographer *

Chauncy Maples Chauncy Maples (1852 – 2 September 1895) was a British clergyman and Anglican missionary who became Bishop of Likoma, with a diocese in East Africa. Early life Born at Bound's Green in 1852, he was the son of Frederick Maples, a solicitor, ...

(1852–95), British missionary and bishop of Nyasaland *

Chauncy Master Chauncy Makolani Master (born 2 June 1985 in Mulanje) is a Malawian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. He competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the 2007 World Championships and the 2008 Olympic Games without progressi ...

(born 1985), Malawian runner * Chauncy Batho Dashwood Strettell (1881–1958), English Indian Army officer *

Chauncy Townsend Chauncy Townsend (23 February 1708 – 28 March 1770) was a City of London merchant and a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Great Britain. He was prominent in developing coalmines in the Swansea area of Wales and in supplying settler nee ...

(1708–1770), British politician and businessman * Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868), English poet, clergyman, and collector * Chauncy Welliver (born 1983), American-New Zealand boxer

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* Charles Chauncy (1592–1671), Anglo-American clergyman and educator * Charles Chauncy (1705–1787), American Congregational clergyman *

Henry Chauncy Sir Henry Chauncy (12 April 1632 – April 1719) was an English lawyer, topographer and antiquarian. He is best known for his county history of Hertfordshire, published in 1700. Life He was born in Ardeley (then known as Yardley), Hertfordshir ...

(1632–1719), English lawyer, educator and antiquarian *

Ichabod Chauncy Ichabod Chaunc(e)y, (1635–1691) was an English physician and nonconformist divine. He was an army chaplain at Dunkirk before 1660, beneficed in Bristol, ejected from his living for nonconformity in 1662, and practised medicine at Bristol from ...

(1635–1691), English physician and nonconformist divine *

Isaac Chauncy Isaac Chauncy (1632–1712) was an English dissenting minister. Life Chauncy was the eldest son of Charles Chauncy, and was born on 23 August and baptised at Ware, Hertfordshire, on 30 August 1632. He went as a child to New England with his fa ...

(1632–1712), English dissenting minister *

Maurice Chauncy Dom Maurice Chauncy (c. 1509–1581) was an English Catholic priest and Carthusian monk. Life He was born at an uncertain date, the eldest son of John Chauncy, esq., of Ardeley, Hertfordshire, by his first wife, Elizabeth, widow of Richard Manfiel ...

(1509–1581), English Catholic priest and Carthusian monk * Nan Chauncy (1900–1970), British-born Australian novelist *

Philip Chauncy Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy (1816–1880) was a colonial surveyor and amateur ethnographer. Born on 21 June 1816, at Datchet in Buckinghamshire, England, he travelled to the colonies in Australia, residing in Victoria after 1839 and at the Swan ...

(1816–1880), colonial Australian surveyor, amateur ethnographer *

Robert de Chauncy Robert de Chauncy (died 1278) was a medieval Bishop of Carlisle. Life Chauncy's family probably came from Chawreth in Essex, from which he took his name. Beyond the fact that he was illegitimate, nothing else is known of his background.Summe ...

(died 1278), English bishop of Carlisle * William Snell Chauncy (1820–1878), English civil engineer

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