Born the second son of
Thomas Chicheley of
Wimpole, Chicheley entered the
Inner Temple to study the law in 1657. Promoted to
lieutenant in 1662 and to
post-captain in 1663, he took command of the
sixth-rate HMS Milford in August 1664, of the
fourth-rate HMS Bristol in September 1664 and of the fourth-rate
HMS Phoenix in December 1664. He went on to command the fourth-rate
HMS Antelope in October 1665, the
third-rate HMS Fairfax in July 1666 and the third-rate
HMS Rupert in August 1668. but stood down to become
Commissioner of the Ordnance in May 1679. he retired from the Board in June 1690. Chicheley died suddenly on 20 March 1691 and was buried at
St Giles in the Fields in
London. ==Family==