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Family and Education
b. c. 1616, 1st s. of Sir Gilbert Hoghton*.Foster, Lancs. Peds. m. settlement May 1633 (with £5,000), Sarah (bur. 21 May 1698), da. of Philip Stanhope, 1st earl of Chesterfield, 6s. (4 d.v.p.) 5da.Cal. Hoghton Deeds and Pprs. ed. J.H. Lumby (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lxxxviii), 249; Foster, Lancs. Peds.; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxv), 154. suc. fa. as 3rd bt. May 1646.Preston, Lancs. par. reg. d. 3 Feb. 1678.Baines, Lancs. iv. 184.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Preston by Aug. 1642–?;Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 112. Liverpool by Jan. 1645-bef. Oct. 1649;Chandler, Liverpool, 329; Liverpool Town Bks. 1649–71 ed. M. Power (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. cxxxvi), 2. Wigan by Oct. 1649–?Sinclair, Wigan, ii. 53.

Military: col. of ft. (parlian.) 10 May 1643–27 Mar. 1644.SP28/267, ff. 631, 640; CJ iii. 621a; CJ v. 525a. Gov. Burton-upon-Trent, May-July 1643.SP28/267, ff. 635–6.

Local: dep. lt. Lancs. 7 Sept. 1644–?, 9 Oct. 1660-aft. Aug. 1662; Cheshire 9 Oct. 1660-c.1662.CJ iii. 621a; LJ vi. 698b; SP29/11/166, f. 206; Manchester Central Lib. L1/48/6/1; CSP Dom. 1661–2, p. 524; Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 258. Steward, master forester and master of the game, Bowland and Quernmore, Lancs. 16 Sept. 1644–? Master forester, Myerscough, Amounderness and Bleasdale 16 Sept. 1644–? Kpr. Myerscough Park 16 Sept. 1644–?Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 143; Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 257. Commr. assessment, Lancs. 21 Feb. 1645, 16 Feb. 1648, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677;A. and O.; An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. Northern Assoc. 20 June 1645; defence of Lancs. 29 Aug. 1645. by 9 Apr. 1646 – 16 Apr. 1650A. and O. J.p., 4 Mar. 1653–13 Aug. 1670.Lancs. RO, QSO/2/19; QSC/42–51, 54–69. Commr. militia, 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 78. ejecting scandalous ministers, 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. Sheriff, 23 Dec. 1658–9.Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 257. Commr. poll tax, 1660.SR. Col. militia horse, 19 Apr. 1660;Parliamentary Intelligencer no. 17 (16–23 Apr. 1660), 270 (E.183.5). capt.-lt. militia horse, 8 Oct. 1660–?Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 258.

Religious: elder, sixth Lancs. classis, 1646.LJ viii. 511.

Court: gent. of privy chamber, extraordinary, May 1661–?Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 258.

Parlimentarian
HOGHTON, Richard (c.1616-78), of Hoghton Tower, Leyland, and Walton-le-Dale, Lancs.
: of Hoghton Tower, Leyland and Lancs., Walton-le-Dale.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HOGHTON, Richard (c.1616-78), of Hoghton Tower, Leyland, and Walton-le-Dale, Lancs.

Will
admon. 1678.Index to the Wills and Inventories in the Ct. of Probate at Chester 1660-80 ed. J.P. Earwaker (Manchester, 1887), 142.
Estates
in 1632, the Hoghtons’ estate was reckoned to be worth £2,390 p.a.Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 18; B.G. Blackwood, ‘The economic state of the Lancs. gentry on the eve of the civil war’, NH xii. 56. In 1664, Hoghton estimated his estate to be worth £2,214 p.a.Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 22. In 1665, estate was reckoned to be worth £2,500 p.a.Bodl. Carte 75, f. 415. In 1674, he mortgaged Walton Hall, park and desmesne for £3,000.Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 192.
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
Presented Seth Bushell to vicarage of Preston, Lancs. 1663.Clergy of the C of E database.
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