Challoner "The Speaker" Chute [55782]

  General Notes:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chute/gp1700.htm#head1


Challoner Chute: According to WEC: "Spent his childhood in Kensington where his younger brother Charles was born in 1600, and his sister Dorothy in 1603; the entries of whose births in the register of the Mary Abbotts, Kensington, were in Latin, while those of less dignified persons were in the vulgar tongue. Was admitted student of the Middle Temple November 11, 1613 as "Caroli Chewte", and was called to the bar May 23, 1623. He was appointed to conduct ... registrations of titles and sales of land. He purchased the Vyne, a celebrated country-seat in Hants Co., between Hampshire and Berkshire, of Lord Sandys, grandson of Sir Walter Sandys in 1653. The Vyne was settled by the Romans in the 2nd or 3rd century and was held by the family of Sandys from Richard II, to 1650. Was presented a valuable silver tankard by John, Bishop of Rochester for his efforts on behalf of the bishops and the royal cause; elected Treasurer of the Middle Temple in 1655; Knight of the Shire for Middlesex 1656 and 1658, and upon the assembling of Parliament under Richard Cromwell, January 29, 1659, was unanimously chosen speaker of the House of Commons. The French ambassador, M. de Bordeaux, wrote home in February that Parliament elected its speaker "who is one of the most celebrated lawyers in the nation, and there appeared to be no opposition to his election."
His christening record is as follows:

Chaliner CHEWTE
Sex: M
Event(s):
Christening: 2 Feb 1598
Bearsted, Kent, England
Parents:
Father: Charles CHEWTE
Mother:
Source Information:
Batch number: Dates Source Call No. Type Printout Call No. Type
C046841 1563-1847 0874098 IT 2 Film 6906451 Film
Sheet:
Film or fiche number 0874098
Bearsted, Kent Count, England, parish register transcripts : christenings, 1655-1847; marriages, 1563-1837; burials, 1563-1840 Church of England. Parish Church of Bearsted (Kent)



Record Type: Chute Family History/Book
Title: A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America: With Some Account of the Family in Great Britain and Ireland, with an Account of Forty Allied Families Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources
Author: William Edward Chute
Published: Salem, Massachusetts, 1894
Comments: Copy originally owned by George Maynard Chute, nephew of William Edward Chute with his signature on the flyleaf; handwritten notes in margins; passed to George Maynard Chute, Jr. who published an updated addendum to this work in 1968; passed to George Maynard Chute, III; passed to Jacqueline Irene Chute.
Location: Privately held


Type: Book (xeroxed pages only)
Title: Burke's Peerage or Burke's Landed Gentry
Date: Unknown; post 1953
Pages: 444-445
LOCA: Chute Family Records/Burke's Records


Record Type: Visitation
Title: The Visitation of London, Anno Domini 1633,1634 and 1635
Made by: Sr. Henry St. George, Kt; Sr. Henry St. George, Kt.
Volume: 1
Page: 163
Editors: Joseph Jackson Howard, LL.D., F.S.A; Joseph Lemuel Chester, LL.D.
Published: London, 1880
This Source Has Been Cited for: Anthony Chute <gp15.htm> and (Unknown) Gyrlinge Chute, through four generations.
GROUP NO: Chute Family Records/GP15-0

  Noted events in his life were:

• Education: Admitted Student of the Middle Temple, 11 Nov 1613.

• Appointed: Called to the bar, Middle Temple, 12 May 1623.

• Land sale record: Purchased The Vyne estate, Hampshire, Great Britain from Sandys family, 1653.

• Election: Elected Treasurer of the Middle Temple, 1655.

• Acceded: Knight of the Shire for Middlesex, Great Britain, 1656-1658.

• Election: Unanimously elected Speaker of the House of Commons, 29 Jan 1658/59.

Challoner married Ann Skory [55783] [MRIN: 551614668], daughter of Sir John Skory [55784] and Unknown. (Ann Skory [55783] was born in Herefordshire, England.)