John Hungerford (by 1516 – 1582) of Stokke Manor, Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire and

Down Ampney Down Ampney (pronounced ''Amney'') is a medium-sized village located in Cotswold district in Gloucestershire, in England. The population taken at the 2011 census was 644. It is off the A417 which runs between Cirencester and Faringdon (in Oxf ...

, Gloucestershire was an English

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. He was born the eldest son of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney and studied at the

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in 1534. He was the brother of

Edward Hungerford (died 1572) Edward Hungerford (c. 1519 – 1572) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1554. Biography Hungerford was probably the son of Sir Anthony Hungerford of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire and his first wife Jane Darrell, daughte ...

. HUNGERFORD, John (by 1516-82), of Stokke, Wilts. and Down Ampney, Glos.
''The History of Parliament''. Retrieved 12 December 2018. He was elected the member of the

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for

Great Bedwyn Great Bedwyn is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in east Wiltshire, England. The village is on the River Dun (River Kennet), River Dun about southwest of Hungerford, southeast of Swindon and southeast of Marlborough, Wilt ...

for the Parliament of October 1553. He served as a

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for Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and was pricked

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for 1567–58. He succeeded his father in 1558 and was knighted in 1574. He married firstly by 1541, Bridget, the daughter of John Fettiplace of East Shefford, Berkshire, with whom he had at least 1 son and secondly in 1563, Eleanor, the daughter of Walter, Lord Hungerford of Heytesbury and widow of William Masters. They had at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He was succeeded by his son Anthony.

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