Family and Education
b. c.1423, CIPM, xxiii. 171-5. s. and h. of John Wroughton (c.1401-1429) of Broad Hinton by Isabel (d.?1464), da. of Edmund Hampden† (d.1419-20) of Great Hampden, Bucks., sis. of John Hampden II* and Edmund Hampden* and half-sis. of Thomas Stonor I*. m. (1) prob. bef. Mar. 1438, Jane, da. of William Darell*, Genealogist, n.s. xiii. 90. 6s. inc. Sir Christopher†, 1da.; (2) by July 1469, Margaret (b.c.1438), da. of John Carent (d.1478), of Silton, Dorset, wid. of John Filoll*, 3s. (1 d.v.p.). CIPM Hen. VII, ii. 52, 60. Dist. 1458, 1465.
Offices Held
Attestor, parlty. election, Wilts. 1449 (Feb.).
Commr. to assess a tax, Wilts. Aug. 1450, July 1463; of oyer and terminer Oct. 1450; to assign archers Dec. 1457, Dec. 1488; of gaol delivery, Old Sarum castle Mar., Sept. 1464, July 1466, Nov., Dec. 1467, May 1482, Bishop’s Sarum within Salisbury July 1467;
J.p. Wilts. 24 Nov. 1466 – June 1471, 4 July 1486 – d.
Sheriff, Wilts. 5 Nov. 1486 – 4 Nov. 1487.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Broad Hinton, Wilts.
Worfton, Worston, Wrofton, Wroghton
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Commons 1422-1461
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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