Thomas Chicheley
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Sir Thomas Chicheley was a politician in England in the seventeenth century who fell from favour in the reign of James II
James II of England
James II & VII was King of England and King of Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland...

. His name is sometimes spelt as Chichele.

Chicheley, who came from Wimpole
Wimpole
Wimpole is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England, about 8½ miles southwest of Cambridge. It is sometimes sub-divided into "Old Wimpole" and "New Wimpole". People from Wimpole include the Independent minister John Conder...

 in Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...

, was related to the founder of All Souls College, Oxford. He was High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire
High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire
This is a list of people who have served as High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire.-Before 1154:*Tempore Regis Eduardi: Aluric Godricson, Orgar, Blacuin*1066: Elfric* 1128: Fulk*1070–c.1090: Picot of Cambridge *Michaelmas 1129: Richard Basset with Aubrey de Vere...

 in 1637, and in 1640 was elected to the Long Parliament
Long Parliament
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 as one of the MPs for Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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; however, being a strong Royalist, he was "disabled from sitting" (in other words expelled) soon after the outbreak of the Civil War
English Civil War
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. After the Restoration
English Restoration
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, he was elected once more for Cambridgeshire in the Parliament of 1661–1679, and subsequently sat for the city of Cambridge
Cambridge (UK Parliament constituency)
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 until his retirement in 1689.

In 1670 he was knighted, made a member of the Privy Council
Privy Council of England
The Privy Council of England, also known as His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, was a body of advisers to the sovereign of the Kingdom of England...

 and appointed Master-General of the Ordnance
Master-General of the Ordnance
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. He held that office until 1674, when he was succeeded by his son. In 1679 he became Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
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, but was ejected from office and expelled from the Privy Council on 2 March 1687.

According to Pepys
Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man...

, Chicheley lived extravagantly in London
London
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, and this was probably the reason that he sold his estate at Wimpole thirteen years before his death.
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