Family and Education
2nd s. of Sir Adam Hoghton (d.1385) of Hoghton by his 1st w. Margaret; bro. of Sir Richard. m. Oct. 1403, Joan (b.c.1379), da. and h. of Richard Radcliffe (d.1380) of Ordsall by his w. Sibyl (d.1414), da. and h. of Richard Clitheroe (d.1370) of Salesbury and Clayton-le-Dale. 1s. illegit. Kntd. by Feb. 1393.VCH Lancs. vi. 254, 393; vii. 62; CPL, v. 578; Chetham Soc. xcv. 105; xcix. 12-13; Cam. Misc. xxii. 105.
Offices Held

Bailiff of the wapentakes of Staincliffe and Friendless in the duchy of Lancaster, Yorks. bef. Feb. 1399 – 8 May 1421; keeper of the duchy chases of Pendle, Rossendale, Trawden and Bowland, Lancs. by 30 Nov. 1402; steward of the duchy estates in Tottington, Rochdale, Penwortham and Blackburn hundred, Lancs. 22 Aug. 1403 – d.; master forester of Bowland and Blackburn in the duchy 22 Aug. 1403–d.Somerville, Duchy, i. 500, 507, 527.

Commr. to raise and lead men against the northern rebels, Lancs. July 1403; of inquiry, Yorks. Mar. 1406 (defections to the Welsh), July 1415 (escape of a royal prisoner); to make arrests, Lancs. June 1410, 1417;Chetham Soc. n.s. xcvi. 90, 92–93. of array, Yorks. May 1415; to hold a muster, Southampton July 1417;Gesta Hen. V ed. Williams, 268. treat for a royal loan, Lancs. Nov. 1419; levy archers, Lancs., Yorks. May 1421.

J.p. Yorks. 6 July 1415 – Dec. 1416.

Main residence: Chipping, Lancs.
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Commons 1386-1421
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HOGHTON, Sir Henry (-d.1424)

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Oxford 1644
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