Chetwood (or Chetwode), Knightly ( - )

GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON- 1918
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-2080)
Name
Knightly Chetwood (or Chetwode)
Title
Mr.
Gender
Male
Lived
b. d. (old)
Source of Data (Contributor name)

Hannah Yip

Biographical Sources Consulted

ODNB (Article: 5246) (article for his nephew, the younger Knightly Chetwood)

Other note

Knightly Chetwood (or Chetwode) was the eldest son of Richard Chetwode, Esquire, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire, and his wife, Anne, one of the daughters of Sir Valentine Knightley, of Fawsley, Northamptonshire. He was the uncle of the more famous Knightly Chetwode (bap. 1650, d. 1720), Dean of Gloucester. He also authored British Library, Add MS 70636. See Victoria E. Burke, "'The disagreeable Figure of a Common-Place' in Katherine Butler's Late Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany" in Joshua Eckhardt and Daniel Starza Smith, eds., Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England (Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 183-199.

GEMMS record created
October 23, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024