Sir John Chamberlain, usually Chamberlayne, of Prestbury, Gloucestershire, was an English manorial lord who inherited the barony of Churchdown, Gloucestershire from his father, Sir Thomas Chamberlain (c.1504-1580), to whom it had been granted in 1552 for diplomatic services to the Crown. He served as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1596-97, and is provisionally identified as the John Chamberlain who sat in the parliaments of 1593 and 1597. His family claimed direct descent from the High Chamberlains of Normandy, the Tankervilles, but his manorial lordships, which shaped his preoccupations and consumed his estate, were not deeply rooted in ancestral holdings.
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1593 Parliament, Member of the 1597-98 Parliament
