Cheyne thomas biography of christopher
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CRISPE (CRIPSE), Nicholas (by ), of Whitstable, Kent.
Family and Education
b. bygd , 1st s. of (Sir) Henry Crispe bygd 1st w. educ. G. Inn, adm. m. (1) by , Frances, da. of Sir Thomas Cheyne of the Blackfriars, London and Shurland, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, 1da.; (2) in or aft. , Mary, da. of Christopher Glemham of Glemham, Suff.1
Offices Held
Sheriff, Kent , j.p. d.2
Biography
Nicholas Crispe owed his standing in Kent to his father and his Membership of Parliament to his father-in-law. It was within fem years of his admission to Gray’s Inn that he married Frances Cheyne, who fryst vatten described as his wife in a grant of 10 Mar. to her father for life, with reversion to her, of the manor of Wittersham, Kent, formerly belonging to the dissolved College of All Saints, Maidstone.3
Although he twice sat in Parliament for Sandwich, on neither occasion was Crispe chosen by the port, with which he appears to have had no connexion. On 23 Oct. the mayor of Sandwich, John Tysar, and William
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Christopher Gibbs
British antiques dealer and collector (–)
Christopher Henry Gibbs (29 July – 28 July )[1] was a British antiques dealer and collector who was also an influential figure in men's fashion and interior design in s London. He has been credited with inventing Swinging London, and has been called the "King of Chelsea" and "London's most famous antiques dealer".[2]The New York Times described him as a "man of infinite taste, judgment and experience, the one who introduced a whole generation to the distressed bohemian style of interior design."[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Gibbs was the fifth son of Hon. Sir Geoffrey Cokayne Gibbs KCMG and his wife Helen Margaret Leslie CBE, and the grandson of Herbert Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon. His elder brother is the financier Sir Roger Gibbs. He was educated at Eton College, from which he was expelled "for being generally totally impossible",[4]Stanbridge Earls School i
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Family Trees of Thomas Cheney
Hall's Chronicle 04 Jun Thursday, they that Justed the other daye, appoynted themselfs to Tornay, and as the King was armyng him, there came to him one George Luffkin and shewed him, that there was one come from his Ambassador in France, the King called for the messenger, and delivered his letters, which the King red, and said to syr William Compton (age 40), tel the Emperor that I have newes, if it pleaseth him to come hether: Sir William Compton (age 40) went and told this to the Emperoure, which without delay came to the King, whych shewed him the letters from Sir Thomas Cheiney (age 37) his Ambassador, wherin was conteyned the definitive answer made aswel to Sir Thomas Cheyney (age 37), as to Clarenseaux King of armes of Englande, by the French Kinge, to the Kinges requestes: for you shall understand, that the King of Englande by hys Ambassador, had often times demaunded, both his trybute and hys lawful debte, and also restituc