[Illustration] Of the great antiquity of this family there is no
doubt, they having been seated at their manor of Tichborne from the
reign of Henry II., at which period Sir Roger de Tichborne, their
first recorded ancestor, was lord of that manor. The immediate
ancestors of the present family were of Aldershot, in this county,
being descended from the second son of the first Baronet. Henry
Tichborne, grandson of the celebrated Sir Henry Tichborne, so
distinguished during the Great Rebellion in Ireland, and who was
fourth son of the first Baronet, was raised to the peerage in
Ireland as Baron Ferrard in 1715; he died, and the peerage became
extinct, in 1728.
See Wotton's Baronetage, i. 425; Collectanea Topographica et
Genealogica, vii. p. 213; and for a notice of Chidiock Tichborne,
engaged in the Babington Conspiracy in 1586, see Disraeli's
Curiosities of Literature, 1st series, vol. iii. p. 95.
ARMS.--_Vair, a chief or_, borne by Sir John Tichborne in the sixth
of Henry IV.
Present Representative, Sir Alfred Joseph, Doughty Tichborne, 11th
Baronet.