John Chaworth, 2nd Viscount Chaworth

Who is John Chaworth, 2nd Viscount Chaworth?

John Chaworth was 2nd Viscount Chaworth of Armagh.

He was the son of George Chaworth, 1st Viscount Chaworth of Armagh and Mary Knyveton. He married, firstly, Hon. Elizabeth Noel, daughter of Edward Noel, 2nd Viscount Campden and Hon. Juliana Hicks, before 1632. The children from this marriage were

Mary Chaworth

Hon. Elizabeth Chaworth married William Byron, 3rd Baron Byron

Patrick Chaworth, 3rd Viscount Chaworth

After the death of his first wife, he married Anne Hickman, daughter of Dixie Hickman and Elizabeth Windsor, on 13 December 1643 at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. He died in June 1644.

He succeeded to the titles of 2nd Viscount Chaworth of Armagh and 2nd Baron Chaworth of Tryme on 3 July 1639.

Lord Chaworth supported Charles I of England and in December 1642 fortified Wiverton Hall to make it a garrison for the King. In June 1643, Queen Henrietta, on her way from Newark, wrote to the King: ‘I shall sleep at Werton [Wiverton], and thence to Ashby, where we will resolve what way to take.’