HAMPDEN, Richard (1631-95), of Great Hampden, Bucks.

Family and Education

bap. 13 Oct. 1631, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Hampden* and Elizabeth, da. of Edmund Symeon of Pyrton, Oxon.;Par. Reg. of Great Hampden, ed. E.A. Ebblewhite (1888), 20; Vis. Bucks. 1634 (Harl. Soc. lviii), 71. bro. of William*. educ. travelled abroad (France) 1648.LJ ix. 580a. m. 11 Mar. 1652, Letitia, da. of William, 6th Baron Paget, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.Lipscombe, Buckingham, ii. 261. suc. fa. 24 June 1643. d. 12 Dec. 1695.N. Luttrell, Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs (Oxford, 1857), iii. 563.

Offices Held

Local: j.p. Bucks. 4 Oct. 1653 – bef.Oct. 1660, Feb. 1688–?d.; Oxon. by c.Sept. 1656-bef. 1658, ?1659–?62.C231/6, p. 270; C193/13/5, f. 84v; C193/13/6, f. 70v; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. assessment, Bucks. 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660, 1661, 1664, 1672, 1677, 1679;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance…for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6); SR. oyer and terminer, Norf. circ. June 1659–10 July 1660;C181/6, p. 379. militia, Bucks., Oxon. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Capt. militia horse, Bucks. Apr. 1660.HP Commons 1660–1690. Commr. poll tax, 1660; subsidy, 1663;SR. recusants, 1675.CTB iv. 788. Dep. lt. Feb. 1688–?d. Commr. Greenwich Hosp. 1695.HP Commons 1660–1690.

Central: PC, 1689–94. Chairman, cttees. of supply and ways and means, 1689–90.HP Commons, 1690–1715. Ld. of treasury, 1689–94. Chan. exch. 1690–4.Treasury Officials 1660–1870 ed. J. C. Sainty (1972), 18, 27, 131. Commr. appeals for prizes, 1694–d.CSP Dom. 1694–5, p. 204.

Parlimentarian

HAMPDEN, Richard (1596-1659/60), of Great Hampden, Bucks. and Emmington, Oxon.

: Bucks.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HAMPDEN, Richard (1631-95), of Great Hampden, Bucks.

Will

19 June 1695, pr. 2 Mar. 1696, sentence 11 Mar. 1696.PROB11/435/5; PROB11/433/272.

Estates

inherited land at Great Hampden, Bucks.;VCH Bucks. ii. 289. with Sir Robert Pye II*, Charles Fleetwood*, Sir John Temple*, John Trevor* and Richard Knightley*, bought Reading Abbey, Reading, Berks. and manor of Chertsey Beamond, Surr. from Robert Hammond*, 1651.I.J. Gentles, ‘The debenture market and military purchasers of crown lands, 1649-60’ (Univ. London PhD thesis, 1969), 291.

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