Hugh Croxhale (

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1388–1416), of

Shaftesbury Shaftesbury () is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, west of Salisbury, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built about above sea level on a ...

Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

, was an English Member of Parliament, mayor and cloth merchant. He married a woman named Alice; it is thought that they had one son. He was a

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(MP) of the

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for

in September 1388 and September 1397. He was

Mayor of Shaftesbury The following were mayors of Shaftesbury, Dorset, England: *1331-2 and 1351-2: John Haselmere *1355: Robert Fovent *Michaelmas 1374–5, 1379-80: Edward Leante. *Michaelmas 1383-4: Richard Payn *Michaelmas 1390-2 and 1400-1: Thomas Cammell *Michae ...

Michaelmas in 1402–03 and 1415–16.

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14th-century births 15th-century deaths English MPs September 1388 15th-century English businesspeople English MPs September 1397 Mayors of Shaftesbury {{14thC-England-MP-stub