Edward Hungerford
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Sir Edward Hungerford (20 October 1632-8 July 1711), of Farleigh in Wiltshire was an English Member of Parliament.
He was the son of Anthony Hungerford, a Royalist MP who had been imprisoned during the Civil War, and was heir to one of Wiltshire's leading families. (His ancestors included the 14th century Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Hungerford.) By the time of the Restoration, he held about thirty manors in Wiltshire, including the family seat at Farleigh Castle, as well as the estates of what had been the junior branch of the family, at Black Bourton in Oxfordshire.
He entered Parliament in 1660 as member for Chippenham, and subsequently also represented New Shoreham and Steyning. He was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles II, but later his opposition to the court saw him excluded from office.
His spendthrift habits dissipated the family fortune. He sold Farleigh to the Bayntuns, and eventually lost all his remaining estates. In 1682, in an attempt to restore his finances, he erected a market hall on the site of Hungerford House at Charing Cross in London (which had burned down in 1669), but this eventually was sold as well, to its architect Christopher Wren. Hungerford Market survived until the 19th century, when Charing Cross Station was built on the site; the name survives in Hungerford Bridge.
[edit] References
- D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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| Preceded by Sir Edward Hungerford James Stedman |
Member of Parliament for Chippenham with Edward Poole 1660-1661 Henry Bayntun 1661 1660–1661 |
Succeeded by Henry Bayntun Sir Hugh Speke |
| Preceded by Henry Bayntun Sir Hugh Speke |
Member of Parliament for Chippenham with Henry Bayntun 1661-1673 Francis Gwyn 1673-1679 John Talbot 1679 Samuel Ashe 1679-1681 Sir George Speke 1681-1685 1661–1685 |
Succeeded by Henry Bayntun Sharington Talbot |
| Preceded by John Hales Robert Fagg |
Member of Parliament for New Shoreham with Sir Richard Haddock 1685-1689 John Monke 1689-1690 John Perry 1690-1695 1685–1695 |
Succeeded by John Perry Henry Priestman |
| Preceded by Sir John Fagg Robert Fagg |
Member of Parliament for Steyning with Sir John Fagg 1695-1701 Sir Robert Fagg 1701 Charles Goring 1701 1695–1701 |
Succeeded by Charles Goring Robert Fagg |
| Preceded by Charles Goring Robert Fagg |
Member of Parliament for Steyning with Charles Goring 1702–1705 |
Succeeded by Charles Goring William Wallis |
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