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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.
18 de jun. de 2010 · John Hampden and The Battle of Chalgrove Field 1643. John Hampden was mortally wounded at The Battle of Chalgrove. "He's the classic English hero, someone dying at the height of his powers, fighting the good cause." So says Samuel Hearn, chairman of the The John Hampden Society. "The big story in the English Civil War is Oliver Cromwell vs King ...
John Hampden Hampden entered Parliament in 1621; throughout the late 1620s and 1630s he was often in legal trouble for his resistance to King Charles's initiatives and taxes. When the Civil War began in 1641 he took an active part from his station in Oxford, near which, at Chalgrove Field, he suffered fatal wounds in June of that year.
Hace 2 días · John Hampden. (1595-1643), Politician and one of the 'Five Members' whose arrest by Charles I sparked the Civil War. Sitter associated with 17 portraits. One of the central figures at the start of the English Revolution. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1621, eight years before Charles I dissolved Parliament.
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 eldest son of William Hampden, Member for East Looe in 1593, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell of Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdonshire, Hampden was probably born in the spring or summer of 1595. His father died early in April 1597, shortly after the birth of his second son, Richard, leaving Elizabeth to secure John’s wardship and ...
John Hampden. At the beginning of 1637, twelve senior judges had declared that, in the face of danger to the nation, the king had a perfect right to order his subjects to finance the preparation of a fleet. John Hampden decided to use the Ship Tax as a means of challenging the king's power by failing to pay just one pound of what he owed. (11)
