John Hampden
English politician (1595-1643) · Politicians · Lived 1594 to 1643 · aged 49
John Hampden was an English politician from Oxfordshire, who was killed fighting for Parliament in the First English Civil War.
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Sir John Eliot, who died in prison in 1632; Hampden helped him organise the 1628 campaign for the Petition of Right
The elaborate stern of Sovereign of the Seas, built with ship money between 1634 and 1637; the gilt alone exceeded the cost of a normal warship
John Pym; co-ordinator of the Parliamentary opposition
Charles attempts to arrest the Five Members, January 1642; a Victorian era re-imagining
Monument to Hampden, near Chalgrove, sculpted by William Scoular, installed in 1843
Statue of Hampden, in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire; he is pointing towards his home in Great HampdenAbout this person
An ally of John Pym, and cousin of Oliver Cromwell, he was one of the Five Members whom Charles I of England tried to arrest in January 1642, a significant step in the outbreak of fighting in August. All five are commemorated at the State Opening of Parliament each year.
