Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne

Who is Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne?

Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne was an English politician.

Henry Cheyne was the son of Sir Thomas Cheyne of Shurland in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, by his second wife, Anne Broughton, daughter of John Broughton of Toddington, Bedfordshire, and Anne Sapcote, and granddaughter of Sir Robert Broughton by his first wife, Katherine de Vere, said to have been the illegitimate daughter of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford.

Cheyne was trained in the law at Gray's Inn. He inherited his father's estates in Kent in 1558, and his mother's estates in Bedfordshire in 1562. He was knighted in 1563.

He was elected knight of the shire for Kent from 1562 to 1567 and for Bedfordshire from 1572 until made Baron Cheyne in May 1572. He was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1565.

He held the title Baron Cheyne from 1572 until his death in 1587, after which the title became extinct. He had married Jane, the daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, with whom he had a daughter. He was buried at Toddington.