Background
Tichborne was the son of Sir Benjamin Tichborne, 1st Baronet of Tichborne and his second wife Amphillis Weston, daughter of Richard Weston, justice of the common pleas.
Tichborne was the son of Sir Benjamin Tichborne, 1st Baronet of Tichborne and his second wife Amphillis Weston, daughter of Richard Weston, justice of the common pleas.
He was a Royalist commander in the English Civil War. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1595. He was knighted at the Charter House on 11 May 1603.
In 1604 he became joint keeper of Winchester Castle with his father.
He was a ranger of West Beare forest by 1610. In 1614 he was elected Member of Parliament for Hampshire.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Winchester in 1621 and was reelected in 1624, 1625, 1626 and 1628. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire by 1627.
He succeeded to the family estates and the baronetcy on the death of his father on 11 September 1629.
He became a gentleman of the bedchamber to Charles I and was appointed ambassador to the Queen of Bohemia. During the Civil War, Tichborne was a Royalist commander and held Winchester Castle for the King. His estates were sequestrated on 30 September 1650.
Tichborne died at the age of 74.
Tichborne married firstly Ellen White, daughter of Robert White of Aldershot.
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In 1597, he was elected Member of Parliament for Lyme Regis.