Cheney Culpeper

Sir Cheney Culpeper[1] (1601–1663) was an English landowner, a supporter of Samuel Hartlib,[2] and a largely non-political figure of his troubled times,[3] interested in technological progress and reform.

He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Colepeper of Hollingbourne, Kent and Elizabeth Cheney of Guestling, Sussex.

He had an estate at Great Wigsell, Salehurst, East Sussex, which he bought from his brother-in-law Lord Colepeper, but had possession of it only briefly.

During the English Civil War, he was a convinced Parliamentarian, unlike his father who was a staunch Royalist, and sat on the County Committee for Sequestration.

[10] He had contacts in Parliament;[11][12] but insufficient influence to make a real difference in the attitude to Hartlib's projects.

Leeds Castle, which was bought for Cheney and his brothers by his father, who later disinherited him