Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton

Sir Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton (1567–1627), was a religious controversialist. He was knighted in 1608, and was deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire until 1624, when he resigned the office in favour of his eldest son Sir Edward.

Biography

Hungerford was born in 1567 Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire,^[1] the son of Anthony Hungerford (died 1589) of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, a descendant of Sir Edmund Hungerford second son of Walter, Lord Hungerford of Farleigh and Heytesbury. His mother was Bridget, daughter of John Shelley, and granddaughter of Sir William Shelley, justice of the common pleas.^[2] His father was a Puritan, but his mother was a devout Roman Catholic, the religion in which Hungerford was raised.^[1]

Hungerford matriculated from St. John's College, Oxford, aged 16, on 12 April 1583 without taking a degree.^{[3][1][lower-alpha 1]} Howveer he was created M.A. on 9 July 1594.^[4][1]

After being uncertain regarding his religious beliefs and Catholic upbringing, Hungerford embraced the Reformed religion in 1588, at the time of the Spanish Armada. He was knighted on 15 February 1608,^[5] and was deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire until 1624, when he resigned the office in favour of his son, Edward.^[6] He was returned as a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Marlborough, Wiltshire, for Queen Elizabeth I's 8th parliament in 1593, and sat for Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, in the next three consecutive parliaments, in 1597, 1601, and the 1st parliament of King James I in 1604.^[1] He settled at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire where he died at the end of June 1627, and was buried in Black Bourton Church.^[6]

Bibliography

After Hungerford's death, his son, Edward, found among his papers and published "The advice of a son professing the religion established in the present church of England to his dear mother, a Roman catholic", and "the memorial of a father to his dear children, containing an acknowledgement of God'? great mercy in bringing him to the profession of the true religion at this present established in the church of England", Oxford, 1639, 4to. The latter was finished at Black Bourton in April 1627.^[6][7]

Family

Hungerford married Lucy, daughter of Sir Walter Hungerford (Knight of Farley).^[8] Together, they had children:^{[lower-alpha 2]}

• Sir Edward (1596–1648) a roundhead^[8]
• Bridget, who married Alexander Chocke (1594–1625).^[9] After his death she re-married, twice more, firstly John Rudhale and secondly John Vaughan, a Herefordshire Catholic.^[10]

After Lucy's death, Hungerford married Sarah, daughter of John Crouch of London. Together, they had four children:^[1] Anthony, a cavalier; John; and two daughters.^[8]

Notes

References

• Lancaster, Henry (May 2009) [2004]. "Hungerford, Sir Anthony (bap. 1567, d. 1627)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14170.  (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Lancaster, Henry (2010). "Hungerford, Anthony (1567-1627), of Stock, nr. Great Bedwyn, Wilts. and Down Ampney, Glos.; later of Black Bourton, Oxon.". In Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Cambridge University Press. 
• Lancaster, Henry (2010a). "Chocke, Alexander II (1593/4-1625), of Shalbourne, Wilts.; later of Hungerford Park, Berks.". In Thrush, Andrew; Ferris, John P. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629. 
• Roberts, Laura M. (April 1901). "Sir Anthony Hungerford's 'Memorial". The English Historical Review (Oxford University Press) 16 (62): 292–307. 

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hardy, William John (1891). "Hungerford, Anthony (1564-1627)". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 253, 254.  Endnotes
  • Wood's Athenae Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 410-11
  • Brit. Mus. Cat.
  • Hoare's Hungerfordiana, 1823
  • Le Neve's Pedigrees of Knights (Harl. Soc.),pp. 33–4.