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John Hampden was a local landowner and Member of Parliament, from an ancient South Buckinghamshire family with a long tradition of public service. Find out how he opposed King Charles I, fought in the Civil Wars, and died for his cause. See 17th century armour and weaponry on loan from The John Hampden Society and Battlefields Trust.
John Hampden's funeral in 1643. Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees. The Great Hall at Hampden House. Charles I tries to arrest the Five Members in the House of Commons. Pyrton Manor, home of John Hampden's first wife. The Earl of Buckinghamshire at the 350th anniversary ceremony in Thame.
John Hampden was born in 1595, probably in London, son of William Hampden and Elizabeth Cromwell, daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell of Hinchinbrooke. Thus John and his younger brother Richard, born in 1596, were first cousins to Sir Henry’s grandson Oliver, later to become Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland.
John Hampden half in der Schlacht von 1642 mit, Aylesbury zu verteidigen und wurde bei Chalgrovefield, einige Meilen von Oxford, in einem Reitertreffen am 18. Juni 1643 verwundet und starb sechs Tage später in Thame, Oxfordshire. Die Stadt Hamden in Connecticut, USA, wurde nach ihm benannt, ebenso wie das Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, USA.
7 de mar. de 2016 · 7th March 2016 by Sarah Large. The death of John Hampden by Professor John Adair, the President of the John Hampden Society. Click here. An article by Hampden’s latest biographer into the controversial circumstances surrounding Hampden’s death and the exhumation of his presumed body by Lord Nugent in 1828.
17 de jul. de 2021 · While Hampden, who was Oliver Cromwell's cousin, was not opposed to the tax itself, he did not agree with the fact that it was a levy collected by the king, rather than being collected by Parliament. He believed that if Parliament could only meet when summoned by the King, then Charles I was essentially eliminating the need to recall Parliament if he could raise taxes himself.
