John Hermengil Tichborne (1679 - 5 May 1748) was a Jesuit priest and the 5th Baronet Tichborne.[1] He succeeded to the title on the death of his older brother Henry Joseph Tichborne, the 4th Baronet in 1743.
Born in Tichborne in Hampshire in 1679, John Hermengil Tichborne was a younger son of Henry Tichborne, the 3rd Baronet, and Mary née Arundel (1622 - 1698),[2] the daughter of Charles Arundell, a younger brother of Thomas, Lord Arundell of Wardour, a Catholic family. John Hermengil Tichborne was one of four sons and five daughters, four of whom died in infancy.[3] These included: Henry Joseph Tichborne, the 4th baronet; John and Charles Tichborne, who both died young; Winifred, who died as an infant; Lettice, who married Henry Whettenhall and whose son, Henry, also became a Jesuit priest in Europe;[4] Mary, who became a nun; and Frances, who in 1694 married John Paston.[5]
The Tichborne's were one of the leading Catholic families in Hampshire, and John Hermengil Tichborne entered the Society of Jesus on 21 October 1700 aged 21 and professed on 2 February 1717.[6] Between 1728 and his death in 1748 he lived mostly at Ghent in Belgium.[7]
Father Sir John Hermengil Tichborne died unmarried in Ghent in Belgium in 1748.[8] The title passed to Sir Henry Tichborne, the 6th Baronet.