John Hungerford (ca. 1560 – 1636) was an English MP. He was the eldest of Walter Hungerford of Cadenham manor,

Foxham, Wiltshire Foxham is a village in Bremhill civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about northeast of Chippenham and a similar distance northwest of Calne. Manor The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a small settlement of ten households at Cadenham, close to t ...

and his wife Frances, daughter of John Cock of

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, Hertfordshire. He was admitted to the

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in 1580. He was elected MP for the constituency of

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through four successive parliaments between 1584 and 1593. In 1604 he was chosen to represent

Chippenham Chippenham is a market town in north-west Wiltshire, England. It lies north-east of Bath, Somerset, Bath, west of London and is near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town was established on a crossing of the River Avon, ...

, following a

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case that had decided in favour of the town's freemen. He was a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire by 1594 and was appointed

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for 1605–06. He married Elizabeth (d. 1650), the daughter of Sir Thomas Estcourt of

Shipton Moyne Shipton Moyne is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Cotswold (district), Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, approximately 105 miles west of London. Its nearest towns are Tetbury (3 miles north), also in Glou ...

, Gloucestershire around 1596. In 1623 they had 5 sons and 3 daughters. His heir Edward was the father of George Hungerford (MP) and his daughter Frances married Francis Keate of East Lockinge, Berkshire. He died 29th March 1636 at Cadenham, leaving more than 1,500 acres of land in Wiltshire and Berkshire to his heir.

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