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Family and Education
b. 28 June 1605, 1st s. of Sir Christopher Hatton†, KB, of Kirby Hall; Clayhall, Ilford, Essex; and St Bartholomew-the-Great, London, and Alice, da. of Thomas Fanshawe† of Ware Park, Herts.C142/376/100; CP; HP Commons 1604-29, ‘Christopher Hatton’. educ. Jesus, Camb. 12 Jan. 1620, MA 1622;Al. Cant. G. Inn 18 Mar. 1620;G. Inn Admiss. DCL Oxf. Nov. 1642.Al. Ox. m. 8 May 1630 (with £2,400), Elizabeth (d. 30 Dec. 1672), da. and coh. of Sir Charles Mountagu†, of Cranbrook, Barking, Essex, 4s. (2 d.v.p.) 3da.Vis. Northants. (Harl. Soc. lxxxvii), 137; CP; Westminster Abbey Regs. 133, 136; CCC 1580; PROB11/148, f. 148v. suc. fa. 10 Sept. 1619;CP. cr. KB 1 Feb. 1626;Shaw, Knights of Eng. i. 162. Bar. Hatton of Kirby 29 July 1643.CP. d. 5 July 1670.Dugdale, Diary and Corresp. 132.
Offices Held

Local: j.p. Cambs. 11 July 1628–26 Feb. 1634;C231/4, f. 250; C231/5, p. 126. Northants. 11 July 1628 – aft.Jan. 1643, by Oct. 1660–d.;C231/4, f. 250; Northants. RO, FH3017. Rutland 12 Feb. 1639–?C231/5, p. 324. Commr. sewers, Northants. 12 May 1627, 1 June 1633, 18 July 1634;C181/3, f. 218; C181/4, ff. 140, 180. Deeping and Gt. Level 30 Mar. 1638-aft. Dec. 1641;C181/5, ff. 101, 214v. Gt. Level 26 May 1662;C181/7, p. 148. oyer and terminer, Midland circ. 24 Jan. 1631 – aft.Jan. 1642, 10 July 1660–d.;C181/4, ff. 70, 195v; C181/5, ff. 4v, 220; C181/7, pp. 15, 534. knighthood fines, Northants. 12 Feb., 29 June 1631, 13 Feb. 1632;E178/7155, ff. 39v, 107v, 134. charitable uses, 19 July 1633, 14 June 1638;C192/1, unfol. swans, Cambs. and Hunts. 11 Dec. 1633.C181/4, f. 153v. Custos rot. Northants. 22 Dec. 1636-aft. Jan. 1643.C231/5, p. 223. Commr. gaol delivery, Northampton 16 Feb. 1637.C181/5, f. 65v. Steward (duchy of Lancaster), manors of Higham Ferrers, Irchester, Rushden and Raunds, Northants., and Warrington, Bucks. 15 Jan. 1637–49.Duchy of Lancaster Office-Holders ed. Somerville, 192. Commr. array (roy.), Northants. 18 June 1642; Rutland 2 July 1642.Northants. RO, FH133. Kpr. Olney Park, Bucks. 1643-bef. Apr. 1645;J. F. Doyle, Official Baronage of Eng. ii. 155; Luke Letter Bks. 513. Whittlewood Forest, Northants. and Bucks. 3 May 1643-bef. Mar. 1646.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 355; Bodl. Nalson XIV, f. 218. Commr. defence of Oxf. (roy.) 24 Apr. 1643, 3 June 1644, 8 May 1645;Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 30–1, 220–1; Pprs. of Capt. Henry Stevens ed. M. Toynbee (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. xlii), 26; CSP Dom. 1644–5, p. 464. contributions (roy.), Northants. 25 Aug. 1643; rebels’ estates (roy.), Berks., Bucks. and Oxon. 9 Feb., 14 May, 9 Nov. 1644; tendering oath of loyalty (roy.), Oxf. 12 Apr. 1645.Docquets of Letters Patent ed. Black, 68, 143, 206, 233–4, 267–8.

Central: member, council of war (roy.) by 27 Nov. 1643-aft. Feb. 1645. 26 Dec. 1643 – 30 Jan. 1649Harl. 6851, f. 229; Harl. 6802, f. 17. PC,, 29 Jan. 1662–d.PC2/53, p. 223; PC2/55, f. 269. Comptroller of the Household, c.27 Dec. 1643–30 Jan. 1649.CSP Dom. 1641–3, p. 507. Commr. treaty of Uxbridge (roy.), 21 Jan. 1645.LJ vii. 150a. Gov. Guernsey 13 May 1662–d.CSP Dom. 1670, p. 671.

Academic: FRS, 1661, 20 May 1663–d.J. Evans, Hist of the Soc. of Antiquaries (Oxford, 1956), 26; T. Birch, History of the Royal Society of London (1756), i. 240.

: of Kirby Hall, Gretton, Northants. and Scotl and Yard, Westminster.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

HATTON, Sir Christopher (1605-1670), of Kirby Hall, Gretton, Northants., and Scotland Yard, Westminster

Will
admon. 21 July 1670.CP.
Estates
in 1619, inherited estate in Northants. that inc. manors of Chapel Brampton, Church Brampton, Corby, Deenethorpe, Gretton, Kirby and Wellingborough-Hatton; Moulton Park; and advowsons of Blisworth, Chapel Brampton, Corby, Great Billing and Old.C142/376/100; Bridges, Northants. i. 420, 489, 492; ii. 132, 296-7, 304, 312, 315; VCH Northants. iv. 73, 95, 139, 204, 228. In 1628, he and a group of gentlemen purchased lease of the manor of Barking and the half hundred of Becontree, Essex for £3,000 and paying a rent of £210 p.a.CSP Dom. 1628-9, pp. 49, 193. In Mar. 1641, purchased lease of manor of Little Weldon, Northants. parcel of the duchy of Cornwall, for £300 and paying a rent of £16 9s p.a.SO3/12, f. 141. In 1646, estate consisted of manor and cap. messuage of Kirby; manors of Chapel Brampton, Church Brampton, Corby, Deenethorpe, Great and Little Weldon, Gretton, Sulby and Wellingborough; Moulton Park; lawn and capital messuage of Benefield; woods in Cottingham, Middleton and Pipewell, Northants.; numerous rent charges in Northants. and Leics.; rectory and prebend of Gretton; parsonages of Doddington, Gretton and Kirby; advowsons of Blisworth, Brampton, Corby, Cottingham, Great Billing, Old and Stoke Bruerne, Northants.; and Hatton House, London, in reversion. His estate (excluding Hatton House) was valued at £2,236 p.a. but was encumbered with an annuity and rent charges in excess of £700 p.a.SP23/200, pp. 97, 101-4, 129-37, 142-3; Northants. RO, Fermor Hesketh Baker ms 717, pp. 137, 138, 139, 140, 144, 145, 147. In 1648, estate in possession valued at £2,106 p.a (chargeable with annuities worth £430); in reversion and for lives, £290 p.a.; and personal estate valued at £1,500.CJ vi. 34a. Estate in Northants. valued at £2,530 p.a. in 1650;CCAM 1209. assessed at £100 for the decimation tax in 1656;TSP iv. 512. valued at £1,370 p.a. in 1662.Add. 34222, f. 38v. In 1666, estate inc. manors of Benefield, Gretton, Kirby and Weldon, Northants. and property in Hatton Garden, London.Northants. RO, FH2010.
Oxford 1644
Yes
1640 Volume
oxford
Addresses
Hart Hall and Christ Church, Oxf. (1644).Dugdale, Diary and Corresp. 68.
Religion
presented Richard Cooke to rectory of Blisworth, Northants., 1630; Thomas Canon to rectory of Chapel Brampton, Northants., 1635; Peter Hausted to vicarage of Gretton, Northants., 1640; rectory of Old, Northants., 1643; John Bullivant, 1651.IND1/17002, ff. 20, 25, 33, 39; J. Fielding, ‘Conformists, Puritans, and the Church Courts: the Diocese of Peterborough 1603-42’ (Birmingham Univ. PhD thesis, 1989), 46.
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