Thomas Chiffinch (Keeper of the Private Closet to the King)

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• - JWB on Thu 9 Apr 2009, 12:34am. Flag this

  Bio’s Thomas & William Chiffinch
  “Memoirs of the court of England during the reign of the Stuarts” by John Heneage Jesse, p 345
  http://books.google.com/books?id=5jU2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA345&lpg=PA345&dq=Thomas+Chiffinch&source=bl&ots=-u6zUz8wTg&sig=ffagKlkkOE84KX2FFXqD8pP3oNw&hl=en&ei=Rz7dSYbDE5vMMr7O4NIN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA345,M1

• - Terry Foreman on Thu 9 Apr 2009, 01:55am. Flag this

  Thomas Chiffinch (1600-1666)

  Thomas Chiffinch [or Cheffin] was buried on 10 April 1666 in the south transept, near to the monument of Isaac Casaubon. The Latin inscription on his rather worn gravestone can be translated:

  “Here lies Thomas Chiffinch, from his tenderest years a faithful servant, in good fortune and bad, to His Most Serene Majesty Charles II, and thence appointed Comptroller to the Royal Excise [Treasuries], a man of notable honesty and probity. He died on 8th April 1666”. and a biography
  http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/thomas-chiffinch

• - Terry Foreman on Thu 9 Apr 2009, 01:57am. Flag this

  A portrait of Thomas Chiffinch attr. to Jacob Huysmans, circa 1655-1660
  http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait.php?search=ap&npgno=816

References in the diary

1666

Apr: 8