Henry Chicheley was born in either 1614 or 1615 to Dorothy, the wife of Sir Thomas Henry Chicheley of Wimpole Estate, Cambridgeshire, England.
10 Facts About Henry Chicheley
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Henry Chicheley's name honours Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of All Souls College, Oxford, from whom he is a collateral descendent.
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Henry Chicheley received a Bachelor's degree from University College, University of Oxford in 1635.
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Henry Chicheley was detained in the Tower of London for alleged complicity in a plotted coup against the Parliament of England.
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In 1652, Henry Chicheley married Agatha Eltonhead Stubbins Wormeley, the wealthy and influential widow of Ralph Wormeley Sr.
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In 1656, Henry Chicheley served as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses representing Lancaster County.
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Henry Chicheley's used his influence with his brother Sir Thomas Henry Chicheley the younger, the royal Master-General of the Ordnance, to obtain arms and ammunition during the Third Anglo-Dutch War.
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In 1675, Henry Chicheley stood by Governor Berkeley during Bacon's Rebellion.
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Henry Chicheley played a central role in quelling the plant-cutter riots of Virginia and preventing further intervention from the Crown.
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Henry Chicheley is interred in the chancel of Christ Church, Middlesex County, and named on a plaque on the cemetery wall commemorating the founders of Virginia, installed by the Virginia Society Order of Founders and Patriots of America.