Background
Burgoyne was the son of Roger Burgoyne, of Sutton, Bedfordshire, and Wroxall, Warwickshire and his wife Margaret Wendy, daughter of Thomas Wendy, of Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire.
Burgoyne was the son of Roger Burgoyne, of Sutton, Bedfordshire, and Wroxall, Warwickshire and his wife Margaret Wendy, daughter of Thomas Wendy, of Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire.
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He supported the Parliamentarian cause in the English Civil War. He was baptised at Haslingfield on 29 January 1592. He was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge on 16 April 1607 and admitted at the Middle Temple in October 1611.
His father, who was twice a High Sheriff acquired the estate of Honily at Sutton in 1625 and built Old Honily Hall.
Burgoyne succeeded to the estates on the death of his father in 1636. He was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1640 and was created a baronet of Sutton on 15 July 1641.
He sat until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride"s Purge. Burgoyne died at the age of 65.
In 1645, Burgoyne was elected Member of Parliament for Warwickshire in the Long Parliament.