Chauncy (name) explained

Chauncy is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Chauncy Harris (1914–2003), American geographer
• Chauncy Maples (1852–95), British missionary and bishop of Nyasaland
• Chauncy Master (born 1985), Malawian runner
• Chauncy Batho Dashwood Strettell (1881–1958), English Indian Army officer
• Chauncy Townsend (1708–1770), British politician and businessman
• Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868), English poet, clergyman, and collector
• Chauncy Welliver (born 1983), American-New Zealand boxer

Surname

• Charles Chauncy (1592–1671), Anglo-American clergyman and educator
• Charles Chauncy (1705–1787), American Congregational clergyman
• Henry Chauncy (1632–1719), English lawyer, educator and antiquarian
• Ichabod Chauncy (1635–1691), English physician and nonconformist divine
• Isaac Chauncy (1632–1712), English dissenting minister
• Maurice Chauncy (1509–1581), English Catholic priest and Carthusian monk
• Nan Chauncy (1900–1970), British-born Australian novelist
• Philip Chauncy (1816–1880), colonial Australian surveyor, amateur ethnographer
• Robert de Chauncy (died 1278), English bishop of Carlisle
• William Snell Chauncy (1820–1878), English civil engineer

See also

• Chauncy (disambiguation)
• Chauncey (disambiguation)
• Chauncey (name)