Henry Tichborne, 1st Baron Ferrard

Henry Tichborne, 1st Baron Ferrard (1663 – 3 November 1731), known as Sir Henry Tichborne, Bt, between 1697 and 1715, was an Irish peer.

Tichborne was the eldest son of Sir William Tichborne of Beaulieu, County Louth and his wife Judith Bysse, daughter of John Bysse, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer and his wife Margaret King (née Edgeworth); his other grandfather being the statesman and general Sir Henry Tichborne, a younger son of the Tudor MP, Sir Benjamin Tichborne, 1st Baronet, of Tichborne (see Tichborne baronets). His paternal grandmother was Jane Newcomen, daughter of Sir Robert Newcomen. He represented Ardee and County Louth in the Irish House of Commons.

As an ardent supporter of the Glorious Revolution, he was created a Baronet, of Beaulieu in the County of Louth, in the Baronetage of England on 12 July 1697. In 1714 he was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland. On 9 October 1715 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Ferrard, of Beaulieu in the County of Louth.

Family

He married Arabella, daughter of Sir Robert Cotton and Hester Salusbury. They had four sons (William, Cotton, Robert & Henry), all of whom died before their father leaving no male issue, so that at his death in 1731 his titles became extinct. His only surviving daughter, Salisbury Tichborne, married in 1713 William Aston, MP for Dunleer, grandson of the prominent judge Sir William Aston, and had issue including Tichborne Aston MP. Their descendants still live at Beaulieu.