Background
He was the fourth son of Reverend George Chinnery and his wife Eleanor Whitfield, daughter of William Whitfield.
He was the fourth son of Reverend George Chinnery and his wife Eleanor Whitfield, daughter of William Whitfield.
Chinnery was barrister and became High Sheriff of County Cork in 1786. Subsequently he represented Bandonbridge in the Irish House of Commons until the Acting of Union in 1801 and thereafter Bandon in the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1806. On 29 August 1799, Chinnery was created a Baronet, of Flintfield, in the County of Cork.
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He sat as Member of Parliament for Castlemartyr from 1783 to 1790.