What is "chauncy"

Chauncy is the 1996 debut solo album by singer/songwriter/ bassist Jason Scheff. Scheff is probably best known as a member of the band Chicago, where he has been the bassist and a lead singer since 1985. It also featured the only officially available recording of his 1993 co-composition "Mah Jongg" prior to the release of the original Chicago recording in 2008.

Chauncy may refer to:

Given name:

• Chauncy Bangs (1901–1942), Canadian pair skater
• Chauncy Billups (born 1976), American professional basketball player
• Worthington Chauncy Ford (1868–1941), American historian
• Chauncy Harris (1914–2003), pioneer of modern geography
• Chauncy Kirby or Chauncey Kirby (1872–1950), Canadian ice hockey player
• Chauncy Maples (1852–95), British clergyman and Anglican missionary, became Bishop of Likoma
• Chauncy Master (born 1985), Malawian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres
• Chauncy Nye (1823–1900), pioneer of the U.S. state of Oregon, publish the first account of Crater Lake
• Chauncy Townsend (1708–1770), businessman and a British Member of Parliament
• Chauncy Hare Townshend (1798–1868), English poet, clergyman, mesmerist, collector, dilettante and hypochondriac
• Chauncy Welliver (born 1983), heavyweight boxer from Spokane, Washington who represents Auckland, New Zealand

Surname:

• Charles Chauncy (1592–1672), Anglo-American clergyman and educator
• Charles Chauncy (1705–1787), American Congregational clergyman in Boston
• Henry Chauncy Kt. (1632–1719), English lawyer, educator and antiquarian
• Isaac Chauncy (1632–1712), English dissenting minister
• Maurice Chauncy (1509–1581), English Catholic priest and Carthusian monk
• Nan Chauncy (1900–1970), British-born Australian author of children's books
• Robert de Chauncy (died 1278), medieval Bishop of Carlisle
• William Snell Chauncy (1820–1878), English civil engineer

Music, theatre, film:

• Chauncy, the 1996 debut solo album by singer/songwriter/bassist Jason Scheff
• Chauncy Gardner, main character in Being There, a 1979 American comedy-drama film

Other:

• MV Chauncy Maples, motor ship and former steamship that was launched in 1901 as SS Chauncy Maples
• Chauncy School, secondary school located in Ware, Hertfordshire in the East of England
• Chauncy Jerome Jr Shipwreck Site, is located in Long Branch City, New Jersey