Viscount Newhaven was a title in the Peerage of Scotland

Peerage of Scotland

The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...

. It was created in 1681 for Charles Cheyne

Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven

Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1698....

 (or Cheyney), Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 and Clerk of the Pipe

Pipe Rolls

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. He was made Lord Cheyne at the same time, also in the Peerage of Scotland. He married Lady Jane Cavendish, daughter of the first Duke of Newcastle

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne KG KB PC was an English polymath and aristocrat, having been a poet, equestrian, playwright, swordsman, politician, architect, diplomat and soldier...

 and had a son, William Cheyne

William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven

William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1681 until 1707 when as a viscount in the Peerage of Scotland he was required to sit in the House of Lords....

, who became 2nd Viscount Newhaven. William was a landowner in Chelsea, London

Chelsea, London

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, having purchased Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

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's palace. He died in 1738 leaving no male heir, the titles becoming extinct.

Viscount Newhaven (1681)

• Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven
  Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven
  Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1698....
  
   (c. 1624–1698)
• William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven
  William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven
  William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven was an English Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1681 until 1707 when as a viscount in the Peerage of Scotland he was required to sit in the House of Lords....
  
  (1657–1728)