Protectorate
Tichborne was one of the representatives of London in the Little Parliament, and was a member of the two councils of state elected by it.
In 1651 Tichborne was a Sheriff of the City of London and in 1656 was elected Lord Mayor of London. The Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell knighted him on 15 December 1655 and summoned him to his House of Lords in December 1657. On 17 April 1658 Tichborne, who was colonel of the Yellow Regiment and a member of the London Militia Committee, presented an address from the London trained bands to the Lord Protector (Mercurius Politicus, 15–22 April 1658).
An unflattering character of Tichborne was given in "A Second Narrative of the late Parliament", 1658.
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