Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley (14 January 1608 – 22 December 1684) was an

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politician, soldier and peer.

Biography

Hawley was the son of Sir Henry Hawley of

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and Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Anthony Poulett. He served as Commissioner of Array in

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in 1642. During the

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, Hawley was the colonel of a

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cavalry regiment that he raised to serve under Prince Rupert of the Rhine. Between 1643 and 1644 he was the Deputy Governor of Bristol. He was created a

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, of Buckland in the County of Somerset, in the Baronetage of England in 1644. On 8 July 1645,

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raised Hawley to the peerage as Baron Hawley in the

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. In October 1645, he obtained the Speaker's licence to go into exile with the Prince, and was subsequently compounded for his estates in 1647 by

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. Hawley returned to England upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. He was a captain in the Royal Horse Guards, commanding a troop, between 1661 and 1675, and was a keen supporter of the maintenance of a standing army. In 1665, he became the

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for

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, a position that he held until 1673. He was

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between 1672 and 1674. From 1669 until his death, Hawley was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber for the Duke of York. He served under the Duke during the

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. He married Jane Gibbes, daughter of Sir Ralph Gibbes and Gertrude Wroughton. He was succeeded in his title by his grandson, Francis.''The New Peerage; Or, Present State of the Nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland'' (R. Davis, 1769), 209.

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