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Family and Education
b. 1591, 1st s. of Sir Richard Hoghton† of Hoghton Tower, and Catherine, da. of Sir Gilbert Gerard† of Ince, Lancs.WARD7/86/188; Foster, Lancs. Peds. educ. at court, by 1604;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 134; Jnl. of Nicholas Assheton of Downham ed. F. R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. xiv), 7-8, 35. embassy, Paris 1616.CSP Dom. 1611-18, p. 426. m. settlement 12 June 1611 (with £2,500), Margaret (d. 23 Dec. 1657), da. and coh. of Sir Roger Aston† of Cranford, Mdx. 6s. (3 d.v.p.) 4da. (1 d.v.p.).Cal. Hoghton Deeds and Pprs. ed. J. H. Lumby (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. lxxxviii), 248; Foster, Lancs. Peds.; Vis. Lancs. 1664-5 ed. F.R. Raines (Chetham Soc. o.s. lxxxv), 154. Kntd. 21 July 1604;Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 134. suc. fa. as 2nd bt. 12 Nov. 1630.DL7/27/13; CB. bur. 8 May 1646.Preston, Lancs. par. reg.; St John Preston Burials 1642-1812 ed. B. Worthington (Lancs. Fam. Hist. and Heraldry Soc. 2002), iii. p. 6.
Offices Held

Civic: freeman, Preston by 1602–?d.;Preston Guild Rolls ed. W.A. Abram (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. ix), 53, 112. Wigan by Feb. 1628–?d.;Sinclair, Wigan, i. 197; ii. 6. Liverpool by 1629–?d.Chandler, Liverpool, 150.

Local: gov. Blackburn g.s. 1611–?W.A. Abram, Hist. of Blackburn (Blackburn, 1877), 330. J.p. Lancs. 1618–d.CJ ii. 821a; LJ v. 449b-450a; Lancs. RO, QSC/5–38; D.J. Wilkinson, ‘The commission of peace in Lancs. 1603–42’, in Seventeenth-Century Lancs. ed. J.I. Kermode, C.B. Phillips, Trans. Historic Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, cxxxii. 64. Steward, master forester and master of the game, Bowland and Quernmore, Lancs. 22 June 1621–16 Sept. 1644. Master forester, Myerscough, Amounderness and Bleasdale 22 June 1621–16 Sept. 1644. Kpr. of Myerscough Park 22 June 1621–16 Sept. 1644.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. R. Somerville, 143; Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 257. Dep. lt. Lancs. 5 Sept. 1625-aft. June 1642.Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 256, 257; Warr in Lancs. 11; B. Coward, ‘The lieutenancy of Lancs. and Cheshire in the 16th and early 17th centuries’, Trans. Historic Soc. Lancs. and Cheshire, cxix. 48. Commr. Forced Loan, 1627;C193/12/2, f. 29; Rymer, Foedera, viii. pt. 2, p. 145. knighthood fines, 19 June 1631;J.P. Earwaker, ‘Obligatory knighthood temp. Chas. I’ (Lancs. and Cheshire Rec. Soc. xii), 199. sewers, 16 Feb. 1633.C181/4, f. 130. Col. militia ft. by Nov. 1636–?SP16/337/81i, f. 168. Commr. subsidy, 1641; further subsidy, 1641; poll tax, 1641; contribs. towards relief of Ireland, 1642; assessment, 1642;SR. array (roy.), 11 June 1642.Lancs. Lieutenancy under the Tudors and Stuarts ed. J. Harland (Chetham Soc. o.s. l), 280. Sheriff (roy.), 12 Dec. 1642–3.Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 257, 269.

Court: cupbearer, 1616–17;LC5/134, p. 157; Lansd. 273, ff. 28, 74. carver-in-ordinary, 1617-aft. 1641.SP14/90/118, f. 211; LC3/1, f. 2v; LC2/6, f. 38v; E179/70/136; SP16/154/76, f. 103; Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 256.

Military: vol. horse, royal army by June 1639–?SP16/427/38, ff. 71v, 73. Col. of dragoons (roy.) by Dec. 1642-c.1644.P.R. Newman, Royalist Officers in England and Wales (New York, 1981), 198.

: of Hoghton Tower, Leyland and Lancs., Walton-le-Dale.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HOGHTON, Sir Gilbert (1591-1646), of Hoghton Tower, Leyland, and Walton-le-Dale, Lancs.

Will
no will found.
Estates
in 1632, inc. manors of Alston, Brinscall, Grimsargh, Hoghton, Lea (nr. Preston), Stanworth and Walton, tithes and advowson of Preston, and at least six mills, Lancs. – and was worth £2,390 p.a.Hoghton Deeds ed. Lumby, 18; B.G. Blackwood, ‘The economic state of the Lancs. gentry on the eve of the civil war’, NH xii. 56.
Oxford 1644
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