Robert Tichborne
Sir Robert Tichborne | |
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Engraving from late 18th to early 19th century | |
| Sheriff of the City of London | |
| In office 1651–1651 | |
| Lord Mayor of London | |
| In office October 1656 – October 1657 | |
| Preceded by | John Dethick |
| Succeeded by | Richard Chiverton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1604 |
| Died | 1682 Tower of London |
| Known for | Regicide of Charles I |
Sir Robert Tichborne (c. 1604 – c. 1682) was an English merchant, politician, author and military officer who served as Lord Mayor of London in 1656. He was a regicide of Charles I.
Before the English Civil War, he was a linen-draper by trade. In 1643 he was a captain in the London trained bands. He was Lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1647. Tichborne was an extreme republican and independent who signed Charles I's death-warrant. He was appointed as a commissioner to settle government of Scotland in 1651, following the Tender of Union. He sat for London in the Little parliament and in Cromwell's House of Lords. He was knighted in 1655, and made lord mayor of London in 1656.
Tichborne was one of the conservators of liberty set up by the New Model Army in 1659. He was sentenced to death after the Stuart Restoration, and imprisoned for life in the Tower of London. Tichborne was also the author of two religious works. Burke's Peerage, page 1436. Berry, Genealogies of Hants, Page 28. Berry, Genealogies of Kent, page 361. Visitation of London, Vol. 2, page 289.