Sir Henry Peckham (1614–1673) was an English landowner, lawyer, judge, administrator, and politician who sat in the House of Commons as MP for Chichester in Sussex at various times between 1654 and 1673.
[2] In 1632 he was admitted to university at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, followed by legal training at the Middle Temple in 1634, and was called to the bar in 1641.
In March 1660 he was appointed a commissioner for militia for Sussex and in April 1660 was re-elected MP for Chichester in the Convention Parliament.
[1] In 1661 he won his fifth election as MP for Chichester in the Cavalier Parliament, acquiring the additional post of Recorder of Newport on the Isle of Wight after 1661 and being knighted on 24 May 1662.
[1] He inherited his father's lands in 1671 but died at the age of 57 and was buried at the church of St Peter the Great in Chichester on 27 April 1673.