deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire
Hungerford was born in 1567 Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, the son of Anthony Hungerford (died 1589) of Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, a descendant of Sir Edmund Hungerford second son of Walter, Lord Hungerford of Farleigh and Heytesbury. His mother was Bridget, daughter of John Shelley, and granddaughter of Sir William Shelley, justice of the common pleas. His father was a Puritan, but his mother was a devout Roman Catholic, the religion in which Hungerford was raised.
Street John"s College.
Hungerford matriculated from Saint John"s College, Oxford, aged 16, on 12 April 1583 without taking a degree. However he was created Master of Arts on 9 July 1594. After being uncertain regarding his religious beliefs and Catholic upbringing, Hungerford embraced the Reformed religion in 1588, at the time of the Spanish Armada.
He settled at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire where he died at the end of June 1627, and was buried in Black Bourton Church.
Hungerford married Lucy, daughter of Sir Walter Hungerford (Knight of Farley). Sir Edward (1596–1648) a roundhead
Bridget, who married Alexander Chocke (1594–1625).
After his death she remarried, twice more, firstly John Rudhale and secondly John Vaughan, a Herefordshire Catholic. After Lucy"s death, Hungerford married Sarah, daughter of John Crouch of London.
He was returned as a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Marlborough, Wiltshire, for Queen Elizabeth I"s 8th parliament in 1593, and sat for Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, in the next three consecutive parliaments, in 1597, 1601, and the 1st parliament of King James I in 1604.
