Viscount Newhaven

Arms of Cheyne, Viscount Newhaven: Chequy or and azure, a fesse gules, fretty argent

Viscount Newhaven was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created 17 May 1681 for Charles Cheyne (or Cheyney), Member of Parliament and Clerk of the Pipe. He was made Lord Cheyne at the same time, also in the Peerage of Scotland. He married Lady Jane Cavendish, daughter of the first Duke of Newcastle and had a son, William Cheyne, who became 2nd Viscount Newhaven. William was a landowner in Chelsea, London, having purchased Henry VIII's palace. Upon his death on 26 May 1728 without issue, both titles becoming extinct.^[1]

Viscount Newhaven (1681)

Charles Cheyne, 1st Viscount Newhaven (c. 1624–1698)
William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven (1657–1728)

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References

↑ Balfour Paul, James (1904). The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh : D. Douglas. pp. 461–468. Retrieved 8 November 2017.

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