Background
Austen was the son of Sir Robert Austen, 1st Baronet of Hall Place, Bexley and his wife Anne Muns, daughter of Thomas Muns, of Otteridge in Bersted, Kent, and of London.
Austen was the son of Sir Robert Austen, 1st Baronet of Hall Place, Bexley and his wife Anne Muns, daughter of Thomas Muns, of Otteridge in Bersted, Kent, and of London.
He was admitted to Gray"s Inn on 23 October 1657. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father on 30 October 1666. He was elected Member of Parliament for Rye again in 1689, 1690, 1695 and 1698.
He was one of the Commissioners of the Customs from 1697 to 1698.
Austen died in Red Lion Square, London at the age of about 58. She died in May or November 1695, and was buried at Stagenhoe.
Cavalier Parliament]
In 1667, he was elected Member of Parliament for Rye in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament.
