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Sir Thomas Cheek, Cheeke or Cheke (died March 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in every parliament between 1614 and 1653.^[1]

Life

Cheek was the son of Henry Cheke and his wife Frances Radclyffe (daughter of Sir Humphrey Radclyffe of Elstow and sister of Edward Radclyffe, 6th Earl of Sussex), and grandson of Sir John Cheke, royal preceptor and classical scholar. He was educated at St Peter's School, York where his school fellows included Thomas Morton, afterwards Bishop of Durham, and Guy Fawkes. He lost his father while a minor: he wrote a Greek letter and Latin verses to the Lord Treasurer in 1586 in which he called himself an orphan, and spoke of his father being gone to the joys of heaven. In it, he prays to his Lordship, that as he was always a help and a sanctuary unto his father, so he would be to him.^[2] Cheek was knighted by King James I on 11 May 1603.^[3]

In 1614, Cheek was elected Member of Parliament for Newport, and MP for Harwich Harwich in 1621. In 1624 he was elected MP for both Bere Alston and Essex, and chose to sit for Essex. He was MP for Bere Alston again in 1625 and was elected MP for Maldon in 1626. In 1628 he was elected MP for Colchester where he sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.^[4] He was awarded MA from Cambridge University in 1629.^[5]

Cheek was elected MP for Harwich in April 1640 for the Short Parliament and was re-elected for Harwich again in the Long Parliament in November 1640.^[4] He survived at least until Pride's Purge.^[6]

Cheek purchased Pirgo Park in Havering, Essex from the Grey family. He died at "a great age", and was buried on 25 March 1659 in St Alban, Wood Street in the north chapel near his grandfather Sir John Cheke.^[7]

Family

Thomas Cheek's first wife was Katharine, a daughter of Peter Osborne and his wife Anne Blyth. Osborne was a very loyal friend of Cheek's grandfather, and had given him a home in his last months following his release from the Tower of London in 1556. Anne Osborne was the daughter of John Blyth, first Regius Professor of Physick in the University of Cambridge (1540), who had married Sir John Cheke's sister. Thomas Cheek therefore married his own second cousin: they were married for nearly twenty years, and had a son Anthony in Virginia ^{[citation needed]}.

Katharine Cheek died on 11 February 1615 of sepsis or gangrene after being bled by the queen's surgeon for a minor complaint.^[8]^[9]

He married secondly Lady Essex Rich, third daughter of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick. They had three sons and six daughters.

Robert Cheeke
Thomas Cheeke of Pirgo
Charles Cheeke
Frances Cheeke, married Lancelot Lake.^[10]
Essex Cheeke, later Dame Essex Bevil and then Countess of Manchester; she married:
- (1) Sir Robert Bevil, KB,
- (2) Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester (1602-1671), as his third wife, on 30 December 1642. Montagu was previously married to her cousin Lady Anne Rich (d. 1641/2), daughter of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.^[11] (Lady Anne Rich was Manchester's second wife, and the mother of his heir.) Of their children,
  - Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester (b. 1634) was father of the 1st Duke of Manchester.
  - Lady Anne Montagu (d. circa 1689) married her second cousin (as his 2nd wife) Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick, the son of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (a younger son of the 1st Earl of Warwick).
  - Lady Essex Montagu (died 1677) married Henry Ingram, 1st Viscount of Irvine (7 June 1661).^[12]
Anne Cheeke, later Countess of Warwick and then Countess of Clanricarde; she married:
- (1) Richard Rogers,
- (2) Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick (1611-1659), her cousin (as his second wife). They had issue three daughters, who were raised by their uncle Charles Rich, 4th Earl of Warwick (d. 1673) and his second wife Lady Mary Boyle (d. 1678).
- (3) Richard Burke, 8th Earl of Clanricarde.
Isabel Cheeke, later Dame Isabel Gerard; married Sir Francis Gerard, 2nd Baronet (1617-1680).
Elizabeth Cheeke, married Sir Richard Franklyn, 1st Baronet
Jane Cheek
Lucie Cheeke.

References

^ A. Thrush, 'Cheke, Sir Thomas (1570-1659), of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and Pyrgo, Havering, Essex', in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629 (from Cambridge University Press, 2010), History of Parliament Online.
^ J. Strype, The life of the learned Sir John Cheke, kt., first Instructer [sic], afterwards Secretary of State, to King Edward VI (John Wyat, London 1705), p. 189.
^ Knights of England
^ ^a ^b Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
^ "Cheeke, Thomas (CHK629T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ The parliamentary or constitutional history of England;: being a faithful account of all the most remarkable transactions in Parliament, from the earliest times. Collected from the journals of both Houses, the records, ..., Volume 9 p27
^ Strype, Life of the learned Sir John Cheke, pp. 189-191].
^ Elizabeth McClure Thomson, The Chamberlain Letters (London, 1966), p. 131.
^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 39.
^ Tate Gallery - Two Ladies of the Lake Family circa 1660 by Sir Peter Lely.
^ Strype, Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, p. 190.
^ H.W. Forsyth Harwood, 'Ingram, Viscount Irvine', in J. Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (David Douglas, Edinburgh 1908), V (1908), pp. 9-20, at p. 13.

Parliament of England
Preceded by Sir Robert Killigrew Sir Edward Seymour	Member of Parliament for Newport 1614 With: Thomas Trevor	Succeeded by Sir Robert Killigrew Sir Edward Barrett
Preceded by Sir Harbottle Grimston Sir Charles Montagu	Member of Parliament for Harwich 1620–1622 With: Edward Grimston	Succeeded by Sir Nathaniel Rich Christopher Herrys
Preceded by Thomas Wise Thomas Keightley	Member of Parliament for Bere Alston 1624 With: Thomas Jermyn jun.	Succeeded by Thomas Jermyn jun. William Strode
Preceded by Sir Francis Barrington, 1st Baronet Sir John Deane	Member of Parliament for Essex 1624 With: Sir Francis Barrington, 1st Baronet	Succeeded by Sir Francis Barrington, 1st Baronet Sir Arthur Harris
Preceded by Thomas Jermyn jun. William Strode	Member of Parliament for Bere Alston 1625 With: William Strode	Succeeded by Thomas Wise William Strode
Preceded by Sir William Masham, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Mildmay	Member of Parliament for Maldon 1626 With: Sir William Masham, 1st Baronet	Succeeded by Sir Henry Mildmay Sir Arthur Harris
Preceded by Edward Alford William Towse	Member of Parliament for Colchester 1628–1629 With: Edward Alford	Parliament suspended until 1640
Parliament suspended since 1629	Member of Parliament for Harwich 1640–1653 With: Sir John Jacob, 1st Baronet 1640 Sir Harbottle Grimston, 1st Baronet 1640–1647 Capel Luckyn 1647–1648	Not represented in Barebones Parliament

[1] A. Thrush, 'Cheke, Sir Thomas (1570-1659), of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and Pyrgo, Havering, Essex', in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629 (from Cambridge University Press, 2010), History of Parliament Online.

[2] J. Strype, The life of the learned Sir John Cheke, kt., first Instructer [sic], afterwards Secretary of State, to King Edward VI (John Wyat, London 1705), p. 189.

[3] Knights of England

[Willis-4] Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.

[Venn-5] "Cheeke, Thomas (CHK629T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

[6] The parliamentary or constitutional history of England;: being a faithful account of all the most remarkable transactions in Parliament, from the earliest times. Collected from the journals of both Houses, the records, ..., Volume 9 p27

[7] Strype, Life of the learned Sir John Cheke, pp. 189-191].

[8] Elizabeth McClure Thomson, The Chamberlain Letters (London, 1966), p. 131.

[9] John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 39.

[10] Tate Gallery - Two Ladies of the Lake Family circa 1660 by Sir Peter Lely.

[11] Strype, Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke, p. 190.

[12] H.W. Forsyth Harwood, 'Ingram, Viscount Irvine', in J. Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland (David Douglas, Edinburgh 1908), V (1908), pp. 9-20, at p. 13.

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-'''Sir Thomas Cheek''' or '''Cheke''' (died March 1659) was an English politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of England|House of Commons]]  in every parliament between 1604 and 1653.
+{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}
+{{Use British English|date=December 2016}}
+'''Sir Thomas Cheek''', '''Cheeke''' or '''Cheke''' (died March 1659) was an English politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of England|House of Commons]]  in every parliament between 1614 and 1653.<ref>A. Thrush, 'Cheke, Sir Thomas (1570-1659), of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and Pyrgo, Havering, Essex', in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629'' (from Cambridge University Press, 2010), [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/cheke-sir-thomas-1570-1659 History of Parliament Online].</ref>
+==Life==
-Cheek was the son of [[Henry Cheke|Sir Henry Cheek]] and his wife Frances Radclyffe daughter of Sir Humphrey Radclyffe of Elstow and sister of [[Edward Radclyffe, 6th Earl of Sussex]].  He was educated at York where his school fellows included [[Thomas Morton (bishop)|Thomas Morton]], afterwards [[Bishop of Durham]], and [[Guy Fawkes]]. He lost his father while a minor as he wrote a Greek letter and Latin verses to the Lord Treasurer in 1586 in which he called himself an orphan, and spoke of his father being gone to the joys of heaven. In it he prays his Lordship, that as he was always a help and a sanctuary unto his father, so he would be to him.<ref name=Strype>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BiEo-HkrRNoC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=%22Sir+Thomas+Cheke%22&source=bl&ots=ZEwEywtwg_&sig=UP0oROuLReC1OXVWvxiG-brL-J0&hl=en&ei=cdNXTeXIH4TChAfV--j3DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Sir%20Thomas%20Cheke%22&f=false John Strype, William Elstob, Sir John Cheke ''The life of the learned Sir John Cheke, kt., first instructor, afterwards Secretary of State, to King Edward VI'']</ref> Cheek was knighted by King James I on 11 May 1603.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/knightsofengland02shawuoft#page/n113/mode/2up Knights of England]</ref>
+Cheek was the son of [[Henry Cheke]] and his wife Frances Radclyffe (daughter of Sir [[Humphrey Radcliffe|Humphrey Radclyffe]] of [[Elstow]] and sister of [[Edward Radclyffe, 6th Earl of Sussex]]), and grandson of Sir [[John Cheke]], royal preceptor and classical scholar. He was educated at [[St Peter's School, York]] where his school fellows included [[Thomas Morton (bishop)|Thomas Morton]], afterwards [[Bishop of Durham]], and [[Guy Fawkes]]. He lost his father while a minor: he wrote a Greek letter and Latin verses to the Lord Treasurer in 1586 in which he called himself an orphan, and spoke of his father being gone to the joys of heaven. In it, he prays to his Lordship, that as he was always a help and a sanctuary unto his father, so he would be to him.<ref>J. Strype, ''The life of the learned Sir John Cheke, kt., first Instructer [sic], afterwards Secretary of State, to King Edward VI'' (John Wyat, London 1705), [https://books.google.com/books?id=ImgKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA189 p. 189].</ref> Cheek was knighted by King James I on 11 May 1603.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/knightsofengland02shawuoft#page/n113/mode/2up Knights of England]</ref>
-In 1604, Cheek was elected [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Harwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Harwich]] and was re-elected MP for Harwich in 1614 and in 1621. In 1624 he was elected MP for both [[Bere Alston (UK Parliament constituency)|Bere Alston]]  and [[Essex (UK Parliament constituency)|Essex]], and chose to sit for Essex. He was MP for Bere Alston again in 1625 and was elected MP for [[Maldon (UK Parliament constituency)|Maldon]] in 1626. In 1628 he was elected MP for [[Colchester (UK Parliament constituency)|Colchester]] where he sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.<ref name=Willis>{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}}</ref>  He was awarded MA from [[Cambridge University]] in 1629.<ref name=Venn>{{acad|id=CHK629T|name=Cheeke, Thomas}}</ref>
+In 1614, Cheek was elected [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Newport (Cornwall) (UK Parliament constituency)|Newport]], and MP for [[Harwich (UK Parliament constituency)|Harwich]] Harwich in 1621. In 1624 he was elected MP for both [[Bere Alston (UK Parliament constituency)|Bere Alston]]  and [[Essex (UK Parliament constituency)|Essex]], and chose to sit for Essex. He was MP for Bere Alston again in 1625 and was elected MP for [[Maldon (UK Parliament constituency)|Maldon]] in 1626. In 1628 he was elected MP for [[Colchester (UK Parliament constituency)|Colchester]] where he sat until 1629 when King Charles decided to rule without parliament for eleven years.<ref name=Willis>{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}}</ref>  He was awarded MA from [[Cambridge University]] in 1629.<ref name=Venn>{{acad|id=CHK629T|name=Cheeke, Thomas}}</ref>
-Cheek was elected MP for Harwich in April 1640 for the [[Short Parliament]] and was re-elected for Harwich again in the [[Long Parliament]] in November 1640.<ref name=Willis/> He survived at least until [[Pride's Purge]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=WykOAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false ''The parliamentary or constitutional history of England;: being a faithful account of all the most remarkable transactions in Parliament, from the earliest times. Collected from the journals of both Houses, the records, ..., Volume 9'' p27]</ref>
+Cheek was elected MP for Harwich in April 1640 for the [[Short Parliament]] and was re-elected for Harwich again in the [[Long Parliament]] in November 1640.<ref name=Willis/> He survived at least until [[Pride's Purge]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WykOAAAAQAAJ ''The parliamentary or constitutional history of England;: being a faithful account of all the most remarkable transactions in Parliament, from the earliest times. Collected from the journals of both Houses, the records, ..., Volume 9'' p27]</ref>
-Cheek purchased [[Pyrgo Park|Pirgo Park]] in  Havering  Essex from the Grey family. He died at "a great age", and was buried on 25 March 1659 in [[St Alban, Wood Street]]  in the north chapel near his grandfather.<ref name=Strype/>
+Cheek purchased [[Pyrgo Park|Pirgo Park]] in [[Havering]], Essex from the Grey family. He died at "a great age", and was buried on 25 March 1659 in [[St Alban, Wood Street]] in the north chapel near his grandfather Sir John Cheke.<ref>Strype, ''Life of the learned Sir John Cheke'', pp. 189-191].</ref>
+==Family==
-Cheek married firstly a daughter of Peter Osborn. They were married nearly twenty years, but had no issue. He married secondly Lady Essex Rich, third daughter of [[Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick]]. They had three sons, Robert, Thomas, Charles and five daughters, Frances, Essex, Anne, Isabel, and Elizabeth.
+[[File:The Cheeke Sisters, by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|thumb|The Cheeke girls, Essex and Anne, painted by [[Anthony van Dyck|van Dyck]]]]
-*'''Robert''' Cheeke
+Thomas Cheek's first wife was Katharine, a daughter of [[Peter Osborne (Keeper of the Privy Purse)|Peter Osborne]] and his wife Anne Blyth. Osborne was a very loyal friend of Cheek's grandfather, and had given him a home in his last months following his release from the [[Tower of London]] in 1556. Anne Osborne was the daughter of John Blyth, first [[Regius Professor of Physic (Cambridge)|Regius Professor of Physick]] in the [[University of Cambridge]] (1540), who had married Sir John Cheke's sister. Thomas Cheek therefore married his own second cousin: they were married for nearly twenty years, and had a son Anthony in Virginia {{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}.
-*'''Thomas''' Cheeke
-*'''Charles''' Cheeke
+Katharine Cheek died on 11 February 1615 of sepsis or gangrene after being bled by the queen's surgeon for a minor complaint.<ref>Elizabeth McClure Thomson, ''The Chamberlain Letters'' (London, 1966), p. 131.</ref><ref>John Nichols, ''Progresses of James the First'', vol. 3 (London, 1828), p. 39.</ref>
-*'''Frances''' Cheeke; married [[Lancelot Lake]].<ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=-1&workid=8591&searchid=13136&roomid=6640&tabview=text&texttype=10  Tate Gallery - Two Ladies of the Lake Family  circa 1660 by Sir Peter Lely]</ref>
-*[http://thepeerage.com/p6796.htm '''Essex''' Cheeke] (d. 1658), later Dame Essex Bevil and then C'''ountess of Manchester'''; she married firstly Sir Robert Bevil, KB, and secondly 30 December 1642 as his third wife [[Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester]] (1602-1671), widower of her cousin Lady Anne Rich (d. 1641/2), daughter of [[Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick|the 2nd Earl of Warwick]].<ref name=Strype/><ref>Lady Anne Rich was Manchester's second wife, and the mother of his heir.  Her son [[Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester]] (b. 1634)was father of [[Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester|the 1st Duke of Manchester]].</ref> One of her daughters Lady Anne Montagu (d. circa 1689) married her second cousin (as his 2nd wife) Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick, the son of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (a younger son of [[Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick|the 1st Earl of Warwick]].
+He married secondly Lady Essex Rich, third daughter of [[Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick]]. They had three sons and six daughters.
-*[http://thepeerage.com/p2682.htm#i26811 '''Anne''' Cheeke], later '''Countess of Warwick''' and then '''Countess of Clanricarde'''; married 1stly Richard Rogers; married 2ndly her cousin (as his 2nd wife) [[Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick]] (1611-1659) and had issue, three daughters who were raised by their uncle [[Charles Rich, 4th Earl of Warwick|the 4th Earl]] (d. 1673) and his second wife [[Mary Rich|Lady Mary Boyle]] (d. 1678).  She married thirdly [[Richard Burke, 8th Earl of Clanricarde]]
+* Robert Cheeke
-*Isabel Cheeke, later Dame Isabel Gerard; married [[Sir Francis Gerard, 2nd Baronet]] (1617-1680).
-*Elizabeth Cheeke
+* Thomas Cheeke of Pirgo
+* Charles Cheeke
+* Frances Cheeke, married [[Lancelot Lake]].<ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=-1&workid=8591&searchid=13136&roomid=6640&tabview=text&texttype=10  Tate Gallery - Two Ladies of the Lake Family  circa 1660 by Sir Peter Lely].</ref>
+* Essex Cheeke, later Dame Essex Bevil and then Countess of Manchester; she married:
+**(1) Sir Robert Bevil, KB,
+**(2) [[Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester]] (1602-1671), as his third wife, on 30 December 1642. Montagu was previously married to her cousin Lady Anne Rich (d. 1641/2), daughter of [[Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick]].<ref>Strype, ''Life of the Learned Sir John Cheke'', p. 190.</ref> (Lady Anne Rich was Manchester's second wife, and the mother of his heir.) Of their children,
+***[[Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester]] (b. 1634) was father of [[Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester|the 1st Duke of Manchester]].
+***Lady Anne Montagu (d. circa 1689) married her second cousin (as his 2nd wife) Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick, the son of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (a younger son of [[Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick|the 1st Earl of Warwick]]).
+***Lady Essex Montagu (died 1677) married [[Henry Ingram, 1st Viscount of Irvine]] (7 June 1661).<ref>H.W. Forsyth Harwood, 'Ingram, Viscount Irvine', in J. Balfour Paul, ''The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland'' (David Douglas, Edinburgh 1908), V (1908), [https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun05paul#page/12/mode/2up pp. 9-20, at p. 13].</ref>
+* Anne Cheeke, later Countess of Warwick and then Countess of Clanricarde; she married:
+**(1) Richard Rogers,
+**(2) [[Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick]] (1611-1659), her cousin (as his second wife). They had issue three daughters, who were raised by their uncle [[Charles Rich, 4th Earl of Warwick]] (d. 1673) and his second wife [[Mary Rich|Lady Mary Boyle]] (d. 1678).
+**(3) [[Richard Burke, 8th Earl of Clanricarde]].
+* Isabel Cheeke, later Dame Isabel Gerard; married [[Sir Francis Gerard, 2nd Baronet]] (1617-1680).
+* Elizabeth Cheeke, married [[Sir Richard Franklyn, 1st Baronet]]
+* Jane Cheek
+* Lucie Cheeke.
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+| with= [[Thomas Trevor (1586–1656)|Thomas Trevor]]
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+| after= [[Robert Killigrew|Sir Robert Killigrew]]
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