Edward Hungerford (died 1607)
Sir Edward Hungerford (died 5 December 1607) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601.
Edward Hungerford, born by 1532, was the son of Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury and his second wife, Alice Sandys, the daughter of William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys.
He was a gentleman pensioner by May 1558. He was a J.P. for Wiltshire by 1583. From 1594 to 1595 he was High Sheriff of Wiltshire. He was an extensive landowner when he succeeded to the estates of his half-brother Sir Walter Hungerford in about 1596. In 1598 he became collector for the loan. He supplied a light horse for Ireland in 1600 and 1601. After the rebellion of the Earl of Essex, he was given custody of his relative William, Lord Sandys. He was knighted in 1601, and elected Member of Parliament for Wiltshire. In 1602 he purchased the manor of Corsham, and in 1604 was granted further manors in Berkshire, Cornwall, Somerset and Wiltshire which had formerly belonged to his father.[1]
Hungerford made his will on 1 December 1607, and died four days later.[1]
Marriages
Hungerford married firstly, after 1574, Jane Hungerford, widow of William Forster of Aldermaston, Berkshire, and daughter of Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, and secondly Cecily Tufton (d.1653), daughter of Sir John Tufton, of Hothfield, Kent, but died without issue.[2][3][4] His widow married Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland.[5]
Footnotes
- ^ a b Hungerford, Sir Edward (by 1532-1607), of Farleigh Castle, Somerset, History of Parliament Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- ^ Hungerford, Sir Edward (by 1532-1607), of Farleigh Castle, Somerset, History of Parliament Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- ^ Hungerford, Sir Anthony (by 1492-1558), of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, History of Parliament Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- ^ Forster, William (d.1574), of Aldermaston, Berkshire, History of Parliament Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- ^ Loomie 2004.
References
- Ashton, D.J. (2004). Hungerford, Walter, Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury (1503–1540). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) (subscription required) The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. - Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison. p. 292. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Harding, Alan (1982). "Hungerford, Sir Walter (by 1527-95/97), of Farleigh Hungerford, Som.". In Bindoff, S.T. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558. Vol. II. London: Secker & Warburg. pp. 413–14.
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