About John Hungerford
Lived 1560 – 1636 (aged 75–76). John Hungerford was a politician.
John Hungerford (ca. 1560 – 1636) was an English MP.
He was the eldest of Walter Hungerford of Cadenham manor, Foxham, Wiltshire and his wife Frances, daughter of John Cock of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. He was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1580.
He was elected MP for the constituency of Wootton Bassett through four successive parliaments between 1584 and 1593. In 1604 he was chosen to represent Chippenham, following a Court of Chancery case that had decided in favour of the town's freemen.
He was a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire by 1594
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Elizabethan and Jacobean nobleman and politician
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John Hungerford was born in 1560.
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John Hungerford died in 1636.
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John Hungerford was a politician.
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