Knightly Chetwood


Knightly Chetwood was an Anglican priest in the early 18th century.

Life

Chetwood was the eldest son of Valentine Chetwood of Chetwood, Buckinghamshire and his wife Mary Shute, daughter of Francis Shute of Upton, Leicestershire. His younger brother Benjamin Chetwood moved to Ireland, where he sat in the Irish House of Commons, and made an advantageous marriage to one of the co-heiresses of the Eustace family of Harristown.
He was baptised on 29 October 1650. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. He was ordained a priest in London on 4 March 1683.
He held the living at Great Rissington. He became Archdeacon of York by Thomas Rudge on 10 January 1689.
He was the Dean of Gloucester from 1707 until his death on 4 April 1720.

Works

Chetwood's works are:
He also edited the Traitté touchant l'Obeissance Passive, Lond., translated by the Earl of Roscommon from the English of William Sherlock.

Family

Chetwood married a daughter of Samuel Shute, sheriff of London, and left a son and a daughter, both of whom died unmarried. The son, Dr. John Chetwood, fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, died 17 February 1752. His will dated 25 Sept. 1733, gave to Wadham Knatchbull, a fellow of the college, a legacy, a locket of Lord Roscommon's hair, and his books, with his late father's manuscript sermons, requesting that Knatchbull, by his will, would order them to be destroyed. Chetwood had a claim, vainly prosecuted by his son, to the ancient English barony of Wahull.