Family and Education
s. and h. of Edmund Hampden† (d.1419/20), of Great Hampden by Joan, da. of Sir Robert Bealknap, c.j.KB, wid. of Sir Ralph Stonor (d.1394) of Stonor, Oxon.; er. bro. of Edmund Hampden*. The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 277. m. Elizabeth (d.1468/9), C1/41/193. da. of John Whalesborough† (d.1418) of Whalesborough, Cornw., G. Lipscomb, Bucks. i. 295-6, 395; The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 822. 2s. 5da. C139/167/19; CAD, i. C1541; Stonor Letters, ii. (Cam. Soc. ser. 3, xxx), 29. Dist. 1430, 1439.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Bucks. 1420, 1422, 1426, 1431, 1437, 1442, 1447, ?1449 (Nov.), ?1453. But the attestor of the elections to the Parls. of Nov. 1449 and 1453 may have been the MP’s namesake, John Hampden I.

Escheator, Beds. and Bucks. 20 May 1422 – 12 Nov. 1423, 26 Nov. 1431 – 4 Nov. 1432.

J.p. Bucks. 3 July 1422–3, 2 Aug. 1431 – d.

Commr. of oyer and terminer, Herts., Bucks. Mar., July 1430 (charges against Sir John Cheyne I*); gaol delivery, Wallingford castle July 1432, Wallingford Feb. 1435, Aylesbury June 1436; C66/431, m. 4d; 437, m. 28d; 439, m. 18d. kiddles, Bucks., Mdx. Aug. 1433; to survey lordship of Kings Langley, Herts. May 1438; of inquiry, Bucks. Dec. 1438 (forestallers and regrators of corn); to treat for loans Nov. 1440, Mar., May, Aug. 1442, June 1446, Sept. 1449, Dec. 1452; raise subsidy Feb. 1441, Aug. 1450; distribute tax allowance June 1445, July 1446; of array Sept. 1457; to assign archers Dec. 1457.

Sheriff, Beds. and Bucks. 3 Nov. 1434 – 6 Nov. 1435, 3 Nov. 1438 – 4 Nov. 1439, 3 Dec. 1450 – 7 Nov. 1451, 17 Nov. 1456 – 6 Nov. 1457.

Master and surveyor of the King’s deer and fisheries in Risborough park, Bucks. 3 May 1438–?d.; jt. parker of Risborough (with Richard Brout) 26 Mar. 1441–?d. CPR, 1436–41, pp. 162, 258.

Main residence: Great Hampden, Bucks.
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