![]() ![]() Hampden was elected to the House of Commons in 1621. (3) After her death he married Lettice Vachell, the daughter of Sir Francis Knollys. Over the next few years the couple had ten children. She was a substantial heiress, and this helped to secure his future. On 24th June 1619 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Symeon, Oxfordshire. It has been claimed that his "mother harboured political ambitions for him." (2) After leaving Oxford University in 1613 he became a student at the Inner Temple in London. Hampden was educated at Thame School and at Magdalen College. Despite his large estates he was heavily in debt. His father died aged twenty-six, on 2nd April 1597. His mother, Elizabeth Hampden, was the daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell, who was related to Thomas Cromwell, the chief minister by Henry VIII. ![]() ![]() His father, William Hampden, owned large estates in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Essex. John Hampden was born in London in about June 1595. ![]()
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