Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne

Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne (31 May 1540 – 3 September 1587) was an English politician.

Career Henry Cheyne was the son of Sir Thomas Cheyne of Shurland in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, by his second wife, Anne Broughton (d. 16 May 1562), daughter of John Broughton (d. 24 January 1518) of Toddington, Bedfordshire, and Anne Sapcote (d. 14 March 1559), and granddaughter of Sir Robert Broughton by his first wife, Katherine de Vere, said to have been the illegitimate daughter of John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford.

He was elected knight of the shire (MP) for Kent from 1562 to 1567 and for Bedfordshire from 1572 until made Baron Cheyne in May 1572. He was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1565. Lady Jane Cheyne gave Elizabeth I a yellow velvet petticoat embroidered with oak leaves as a New Year's Day gift in January 1567.

Henry Cheyne died in 1587 and was buried at Toddington.