Chaloner Chute

Chaloner Chute I (died 14 April 1659) of The Vyne, Sherborne St John, Hampshire, was an English lawyer, Member of Parliament and Speaker of the House of Commons during the Commonwealth.

He developed a great reputation as a defence lawyer in several high-profile cases including those of Sir Edward Herbert (the king's attorney-general), Archbishop Laud, the eleven members of the House of Commons charged by Fairfax and his army as delinquents, and James Duke of Hamilton.

[3] In 1653 he bought from Lord Sandys[4] The Vyne, a very large Tudor manor house in Hampshire.

He demolished much of the northern part of the decaying building and employed the architect John Webb, a pupil of Inigo Jones, to add the portico to the north front in the 1650s, the first of its kind on an English country house.

[6] Chute married twice: Dorothy had been assigned the manor of Sutton Court, Chiswick in 1653, under the Commonwealth.

Chaloner Chute, portrait by unknown artist, collection of National Trust, The Vyne
The Vyne, Hampshire, purchased by Chute in 1653
Monument to Chaloner Chute in the chapel of The Vyne