Sir Richard Hoghton, 3rd Baronet

Sir Richard Hoghton, 3rd Baronet (c. 1616 – 3 February 1678) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1656. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.

Biography

Hoghton was the eldest son of Sir Gilbert Hoghton, 2nd Baronet.[1]

In 1645, Hoghton was elected Member of Parliament for Lancashire in the Long Parliament.[2] Unlike his Royalist father, he was a zealous supporter of parliament and a firm adherent of the Presbyterian cause. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in April 1647.[1] In 1656 he was re-elected MP for Lancashire in the Second Protectorate Parliament.[3]

He was appointed Sheriff of Lancashire in 1659. After the restoration Hoghton was a patron of nonconformist ejected ministers.[1]

Family

Hoghton married Lady Sarah, daughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield, and had several sons and daughters: of the sons, those survived to maturity were:[4]

• Charles, his successor, and the great-great-great-grandfather of author/mathematician Lewis Carroll.
• Benjamin, who died unmarried.

Character

One who knew him well gives this character of him:—"It has pleased Almighty God, by a sudden stroke, to make a sad breach in a worthy family, in taking away the chief head thereof; a person of great worth and honour, of an honourable extraction, of a generous disposition, and of a courteous, kind, and affable temper...".[4]

Notes

1. Pink & Beaven 1889.
2. Willis 1750, pp. 229, 233.
3. Willis 1750, pp. 272, 275.
4. Betham 1801, p. 38.

References

• Betham, William (1801). The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Coats of Arms. 1. Burrell and Bransby. p. 38.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Pink, William Duncombe; Beaven, Alfred B. (1889). The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, &c. London: H. Gray. p. 72.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229, 233, 272, 275.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading

• Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1900). Complete Baronetage 1611–1625. 1. Exeter: William Pollard and Co. pp. 10.