John Hampden (1653-1696)

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John Hampden (1653-1696)

John Hampden (21 March 1653 – 12 December 1696), the second son of Richard Hampden

Richard Hampden

Richard Hampden was an England British Whig Party politician and son of John Hampden. He was sworn a Privy Council of England in 1689 and was Chancellor of the Exchequer from March 18, 1690 until May 10, 1694....
, returned to England after residing for about two years in France, and joined himself to Lord William Russell and Algernon Sidney and the party opposed to the arbitrary government of Charles II

Charles II of England

Charles II was the Monarchy of Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland.His father Charles I of England Regicide#The regicide of Charles I of England at Palace of Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War....
. With Russell and Sidney he was arrested in 1683 for alleged complicity in the Rye House Plot

Rye House Plot

The Rye House Plot of 1683 was a plan to assassinate King Charles II of England and his brother James II of England. Historians vary in their assessment of the degree to which details of the conspiracy were finalized....
, but more fortunate than his colleagues his life was spared, although as he was unable to pay the fine of £40,000 which was imposed upon him he remained in prison.

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John Hampden (21 March 1653 – 12 December 1696), the second son of Richard Hampden

Richard Hampden

Charles II of England

Rye House Plot

James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth

James Crofts, later James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and 1st Duke of Buccleuch Privy Council of England , was an English nobleman. He was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the illegitimate son of Charles II of England and his Mistress , Lucy Walter, who had followed him into continental exile after the execution of Charles II's fat...
's rising, Hampden was again brought to trial, and on a charge of high treason was condemned to death. But the sentence was not carried out, and having paid £6000 he was set at liberty. In the Convention Parliament

Convention Parliament

The term Convention Parliament has been applied to three different English Parliaments, of 1399, 1660 and 1689.The definition of the term convention parliament is generally taken to be:...
of 1689 he represented Wendover

Wendover (UK Parliament constituency)

Wendover was a borough constituency of the British House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832....
, but in the subsequent parliaments he failed to secure a seat. It was Hampden who in 1689 coined the phrase "Glorious Revolution

Glorious Revolution

The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of British monarchy James II of England in 1688 by a union of Parliament of England with an invading army led by the Dutch Republic stadtholder William III of England , who as a result ascended the English throne as William III of England....
". He died by his own hand on 12 December, 1696. Hampden wrote numerous pamphlets, and Bishop Burnet

Gilbert Burnet

Gilbert Burnet was a Scottish people theologian and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch language, French language, Latin language, Greek language, and Hebrew language....
described him as "one of the learnedest gentlemen I ever knew".

He married Sarah Foley (d. 1687), and had two children:

Richard Hampden
Richard Hampden (1674-1728)

Richard Hampden Privy Council of Great Britain was an England politician, the son of John Hampden .He sat for Wendover from 1701 to 1708, 1713 to 1714 and 1722 to 1728, and Buckinghamshire from 1708 to 1710, 1715 to 1722, and 1727 to 1728....
(aft. 1674 – 27 July 1728), an MP and Privy Counsellor
Letitia Hampden, married John Birch

After her death, he married Anne Cornwallis and had two children:

John Hampden
John Hampden (1696-1754)

John Hampden , an English politician, was the second son of John Hampden .He was a founding governor of London's Foundling Hospital, a charity dedicated to the salvation of the capital's child abandonment....
(c. 1696 – 4 February 1754), an MP
Ann Hampden (d. September 1723), married Thomas Kempthorne