VENN (as CHICHELEY): M.A. 1635-6 (=<IT+>Litterae Regiae=<IT>. Royal mandates directing the conferring of a degree.'Lit. Reg.). S. of Sir Thomas, of Wimpole, Cambs., Knt. Succeeded his father. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Nov. 1632. High Sheriff for Cambs., 1637. M.P. for Cambs., 1640-2; and 1661. Knighted 1679. Master-general of the Ordnance, 1670-4. M.P. for Cambridge, 1679, 1685, 1689. Suffered severely as a Royalist during the war. Sold the Wimpole estate in 1686. Died Feb. 1, 1698-9, aged 86. (D.N.B.; A. B. Beavan.)
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