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John Hampden was now at the height of his fame, and occupied much the same position in the eyes of the people as did his descendant Winston Churchill exactly 3 centuries later. Because of Hampden’s stand, the King had subsequently been unable to collect Ship Money, and had been forced to recall Parliament in 1640, after an interval of 11 years.
Quick Reference. (1594–1643) English politician, who played a leading part in the opposition to Charles I's arbitrary government. In 1627 he was imprisoned for refusing to pay the “forced loan” imposed by Charles to finance his unpopular foreign campaigns. Ten years later he was prosecuted for refusing to pay ship money.
The John Hampden Society is seeking new trustees, with a particular interest in digital and/or editorial skills. If you are interested, please email thechairman@johnhampden.org The John Hampden Society exists to bring together people with an interest in John Hampden, and to encourage wider knowledge of this great 17th century Parliamentarian, his life and times.
John Hampden (21 March 1653 – 12 December 1696), the second son of Richard Hampden, and grandson of ship money tax protester John Hampden, returned to England after residing for about two years in France, and joined himself to William Russell and Algernon Sidney and the party opposed to the arbitrary government of Charles II.
The Reverend John Hampden (c. 1785-1847) and his brother the Reverend Renn Hampden, the sons of John Hampden of Christ Church Barbados owned slaves and slave plantations on that island. No genealogical link has been established between the family of the seventeenth century John Hampden and the nineteenth century Barbados based Hampden family.
Returned for Wendover in 1689, Hampden was appointed as John Hampden or Mr Hampden junior to 16 committees, including those to prohibit trade with France, to bring in a list of the essentials for securing religion, laws and liberty, to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act and to appoint the oaths of supremacy and allegiance.
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.
