Christened 1567 not born. Dictionary of Natonal Biography 1885-1900 Vol. 28 .. HUNGERFORD, Sir ANTHONY (1564–1627), controversialist, born in 1564, was son of Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, a descendant of Sir Edmund Hungerford second son of Walter, lord Hungerford (d. 1449) [q.v.] of Farleigh and Heytesbury. His mother was Bridget, daughter of John Shelley, and granddaughter of Sir William Shelley [q.v.], justice of the common pleas (Le Neve, Pedigrees of Knights, p. 33). She was a devout Roman catholic, and brought Anthony up in her faith. He seems to be the Anthony Hungerford of Wiltshire, who matriculated from St. John's College, Oxford, aged 16, on 12 April 1583 (Oxford Univ. Reg., Oxford Hist. Soc.,ii. ii. 126). Owing to his father's pecuniary difficulties he left the university within a year; but he is probably the Anthony Hungerford 'Armiger' who was created M.A. on 9 July 1594 (ib. ii. i. 235). After much wavering in his belief he embraced the reformed religion in 1588, at the time of the Spanish Armada. He was knighted on 15 Feb. 1607-8 (Metcalfe, p. 159), and was deputy lieutenant of Wiltshire until 1624, when he resigned the office in favour of his son Edward. He settled at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire; died at the end of June 1627, and was buried in Black Bourton church. His son Edward after his death 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's 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 part was finished at Black Bourton in April 1627.

Sir Anthony married (1) Lucy, daughter of Sir Walter Hungerford of Farleigh (d. 1596) [see under Hungerford, Walter, 1503-1540], and (2) Sarah, daughter of John Crouch of London. By his first wife he was father of Sir Edward Hungerford (1596-1648) [q.v.], and by his second wife was father of Anthony [q.v.] and John, and two daughters

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.

Brief Biography

Sir Anthony Hungerford of Blackbourton or Black Bourton, later also of Farley Castle d 1627 Hungerford should not be confused with his namesake and contemporary, the Parliamentarian Colonel Anthony Hungerford. Anthony Hungerford died 1657, of Black Bourton in Oxfordshire, was an English Member of Parliament who supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War. The younger son of Sir Anthony Hungerford, he came from a family with a long Parliamentary pedigree; his ancestors included the 14th century Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Hungerford. He was MP for Malmesbury in the Short and Long Parliaments. In 1644, after he attended the King's Parliament at Oxford, he was disabled from sitting in the Long Parliament, fined and imprisoned in the Tower of London; however in 1646, on payment of a fine of £2,532, he was pardoned and his estate at Black Bourton which had been sequestered was restored to him. In 1653 he inherited the Farleigh Castle estates of the senior branch of the family. His son, Sir Edward Hungerford, sat in Parliament for several constituencies after the Restoration; his spendthrift habits destroyed the family fortune.

Family

Hungerford married firstly Lucy Hungerford, daughter of Sir Walter Hungerford (Knight of Farley) (died 1596), as her second husband: she was married to Sir John St. John of Lydiard 1st. He married secondly Sarah Crouch, daughter of John Crouch of London. By his first wife he was father of Sir Edward a roundhead (1596–1648), and by his second wife was father of Anthony a cavalier (d. 1657), John, and two daughters.[7] He was the brother of Sir John Hungerford MP.

Sources

• Collectanea topographica et genealogica, Volume 5 edited by Frederic Madden, Bulkeley Bandinel, John Gough Nichols, page 29.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Hungerford_of_Black_Bourton
• http://www.fulkerson.org/hungerford.html
• http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hungerford,_Anthony_(1564-1627)_(DNB00)_ Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 28 Hungerford, Anthony (1564-1627)
• Hungerford, Anthony (1567-1627), of Stock, nr. Great Bedwyn, Wilts. and Down Ampney, Glos.; later of Black Bourton, Oxon.
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