Walter Chetwynd

Walter Chetwynd FRS (1 May 1633 – 21 March 1693), of Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire was an English antiquary and politician.

During the Popish Plot, he supported Titus Oates, but in 1682, he was providing information on the Staffordshire activities of the Duke of Monmouth.

His writing of "A Short Account of Staffordshire" began in 1679, but by 1688, he had only covered Pirehill Hundred in the northwest of the county.

This remained unpublished until the early 20th century, when William Salt Archaeological Society published it in two of their volumes in 1909 and 1914.

[3] His interests were widespread, including numismatics, literature, theology, mathematics, but above all antiquities and natural history.