Chidiock Paulet

Chidiock Paulet (by 1521 – 17 August 1574) was an English politician and Captain of Portsmouth. He was born the third son of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester and educated at the Inner Temple. Chidiock is pronounced ' Chidick ', as in  Chidiock Tichbourne.

Chidiock Paulet was Chidiock Tichbourne's father's patron. It originates from a Paulet ancestor, Sir John de Chideock, who owned land at Chideock, a village in Dorset. Tichborne was never called Charles. This misnomer was begun by the AQA's GCSE English Literature syllabus which has included an Elegy in its early poetry section for several years. This error persists in much of the educational literature supporting their syllabus.

He was Esquire of the Stable by 1545, Receiver at the Court of Augmentations for Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Wiltshire by 1550–1554, and at the Exchequer from 1554 to his death. He was Captain of Portsmouth from May 1554 – 1559 and treasurer of the Bishop of Winchester from 1566 until his death.

He was returned as a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Bramber in 1547, and for Gatton in October 1553.

Marriages and Death
He died in 1574. He married firstly Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Thomas White of South Warnborough, Hampshire, with whom he had 1 son and 3 daughters.

He married secondly Frances (died 1599), the daughter of Sir Edward Neville of Aldington, Kent and widow of Sir Edward Waldegrave of Borley, Essex, with whom he had another son Thomas Paulet. She had been a servant of Mary I of England. Her will mentions her collection of medical books and her distilled waters, as well as a number of pieces of jewelry. She had received gifts of jewels from other courtiers, including three rings on a bracelet from Mary Finch.