Sir Richard Hoghton, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Hoghton, 1st Baronet (28 September 1570 – 1630) was a politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1611.
He was born the eldest son of Thomas Hoghton of Hoghton Tower, Lancashire by Anne, the daughter of Henry Keighley of Keighley, Yorkshire. Thomas was killed in family feud in 1589.[1]
He was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1599 and was knighted in January 1600.[2] In 1601 he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Lancashire and was re-elected MP for Lancashire in 1604.[3]
Houghton was one of the first ten baronets created, on 22 May 1611.[4]
Hoghton had alum works which James VI and I visited on 16 August 1617 returning from his Scottish progress. In November 1617, when Hoghton was in a dispute with Sir Robert Bannister, Francis Bacon and the Earl of Suffolk advised King James that Hoghton's alum would compete with a royal venture, and so the king should compensate him.[5]
Sir Richard was a suspected Crypto-Catholic.[6]
Hoghton died in 1630. He had married firstly Catherine, the daughter of Sir Gilbert Gerard with whom he had five sons and eight daughters, and secondly Jane, the daughter of Thomas Spencer of Rufford and widow of Robert Hesketh, with whom he had two more sons. The baronetcy was inherited by his eldest son Gilbert.
References[edit]
- ^ "Townships: Hoghton | British History Online". british-history.ac.uk.
- ^ Shaw, William Arthur; Burtchaell, George Dames (16 September 1906). "The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland". London Sherratt and Hughes – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Willis, Browne (16 September 1750). "Notitia Parliamentaria, Or, An History of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs in England and Wales: ... The Whole Extracted from Mss. and Printed Evidences ..." R. Gosling – via Google Books.
- ^ Baker, Richard (16 September 1684). "A Chronicle of the Kings of England". Sawbridge – via Google Books.
- ^ Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Fortescue Papers, 1 (London: Camden Society, 1871), pp. 34–35: John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, 3 (London, 1828), p. 399.
- ^ "HOUGHTON, Sir Gilbert (1591-1646), of Hoghton Tower and Walton, Lancs. | History of Parliament Online". historyofparliamentonline.org.
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