title: Chauncy (name)
text: # Chauncy (name)
  
  Chauncy is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
  
  ## Given name
  
  * Chauncy Harris (1914–2003), American geographer
  * Chauncy Maples (1852–95), British missionary and bishop of Nyasaland
  * Chauncy Master (born 1985), Malawian runner
  * Chauncy Batho Dashwood Strettell (1881–1958), English Indian Army officer
  * Chauncy Townsend (1708–1770), British politician and businessman
  * Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868), English poet, clergyman, and collector
  * Chauncy Welliver (born 1983), American-New Zealand boxer
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Charles Chauncy (1592–1671), Anglo-American clergyman and educator
  * Charles Chauncy (1705–1787), American Congregational clergyman
  * Henry Chauncy (1632–1719), English lawyer, educator and antiquarian
  * Ichabod Chauncy (1635–1691), English physician and nonconformist divine
  * Isaac Chauncy (1632–1712), English dissenting minister
  * Maurice Chauncy (1509–1581), English Catholic priest and Carthusian monk
  * Nan Chauncy (1900–1970), British-born Australian novelist
  * Philip Chauncy (1816–1880), colonial Australian surveyor, amateur ethnographer
  * Robert de Chauncy (died 1278), English bishop of Carlisle
  * William Snell Chauncy (1820–1878), English civil engineer
  