John Chetwynd, 2nd Viscount Chetwynd (c.1680 – 21 June 1767), diplomat and politician, was the second son of John Chetwynd

John Chetwynd

John Chetwynd , of Rudge, Shropshire, was Member of Parliament for Stafford from 1689 to 1695, and again in 1701 and 1702. In the intervening period he sat for Tamworth in 1698–1700....

 and the brother of Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd

Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd

Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd , of Rudge and Ingestre, Staffordshire, succeeded in 1693 to the Ingestre estates on the death of his cousin Walter Chetwynd . He was the eldest son of John Chetwynd...

. He succeeded to that Irish peerage in 1736 by virtue of a special remainder.

Earlier in life he was British envoy to Savoy from 1706 to 1713. After returning to England he was Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for St Mawes

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, 1715–1722; for Stockbridge

Stockbridge (UK Parliament constituency)

Stockbridge was a parliamentary borough in Hampshire, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1563 until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Great Reform Act...

, 1722–1734; and Stafford

Stafford (UK Parliament constituency)

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, 1738–1747. He was also British envoy Extraordinary at Madrid from 1717, until the outbreak of the War of the Quadruple Alliance

War of the Quadruple Alliance

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.

John Chetwynd was married and had two sons and two daughters:

• Hon. John Chetwynd, who died on 30 May 1741 aged 21 and unmarried
• Hon. William Richard Chetwynd
  William Richard Chetwynd
  William Richard Chetwynd was the son of John Chetwynd, 2nd Viscount Chetwynd. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Wollaston and was elected as Member of Parliament for Stafford in 1754 and held the seat until his death...
  
  , Member of Parliament for Stafford
  Stafford (UK Parliament constituency)
  Stafford is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. The sitting MP is the Conservative Jeremy Lefroy....
  
  , who died in 1765 before his father.
• Hon. Catherine Chetwynd, who married John Talbot
  John Talbot (judge)
  The Honourable John Talbot was a British judge and Member of Parliament.Talbot was the third son of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, who served as Lord Chancellor from 1733 to 1737. Training as a lawyer, John entered Lincoln's Inn in 1734 and was called to the bar in 1737...
  
  , the 2nd son of Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot. By this marriage, the Ingestre estate passed into the Talbot family.
• Hon. Frances Chetwynd (died unmarried 1805).

Having outlived both his sons, John was succeeded as Viscount by his brother William.

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