{{More footnotes needed|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Nicholas Tichborne''' (? at Hartley Mauditt, Hampshire – executed 24 August 1601 at Tyburn, London) was an English Roman Catholic layman, a recusant and Catholic martyr. He is to be distinguished from the Nicholas Tichborne who died in Winchester Gaol in 1587 who was his father.
==Life==
He was at large in 1592, but by 14 March 1597, had been imprisoned. On that date he gave evidence against various members of his family. Before 3 November 1598, he had obtained his liberty and had effected the release of his brother, Thomas Tichborne, a prisoner in the Gatehouse, Westminster, by assaulting his keeper.<ref name=wainewright>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14721b.htm Wainewright, John. "Ven. Nicholas Tichborne." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 8 October 2021{{PD-notice}}</ref>
With him was executed Thomas Hackshott (b. at Mursley, Buckinghamshire), who was condemned on the same charge, viz. that of effecting the escape of the priest Thomas Tichborne.<ref name=wainewright/>
Nicholas Tichborne and were declared venerable by Pope Leo XIII in 1886
==References== {{Reflist}}
*Richard Challoner, ''Missionary Priests'', I, no. 127; *John Hungerford Pollen, ''English Martyrs 1584-1603'' (London, privately printed for the Catholic Record Soc., 1908), 361, 395;
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