Background
Hoghton was the son of Sir Richard Hoghton, 1st Baronet of Hoghton Tower, Lancashire.
Hoghton was the son of Sir Richard Hoghton, 1st Baronet of Hoghton Tower, Lancashire.
He was a Royalist leader during the English Civil War. He became a courtier, and a favourite of King James I and was knighted by the king at Whitehall on 21 July 1604. And was then elected in 1621 to hold the county seat for Lancashire until 1622.
He was re-elected Member of Parliament for Lancashire in 1626.
In 1630 he inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father. In April 1640, Hoghton was re-elected Member of Parliament for Lancashire to the Short Parliament.
He was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1643. In the Civil War he was a prominent Lancastrian Royalist commander and the first to take action in the Blackburn Hundred.
In February 1643 he was present at the loss of Preston and later served at Chester.
Hoghton Tower was used a Royalist garrison and part of the tower was accidentally blown up by parliamentary forces, killing a number of them. The estate was subsequently sequestered. Hoghton died in April 1648 and was buried at Preston.
George, the eldest son, died young.
Richard, succeeded to the title and estate. Roger (died 1643), who was killed in the Battle of Marston Moor
Gilbert (died 1661), became a major in the regiment of Sir Gilbert Gerard (Governor of Worcester), married Lettice, daughter and co-heir of Sir Francis Gamull of Chester
Thomas, died young;
Henry, captain of horse under James, Earl of Derby, who took to wife Mary, daughter of Peter Egerton of Shaw, in Lancashire, and widow of Sir Thomas Stanley of Bickerstaff, in Lancashire, Baronet.
Of the daughters:
Catharine, married Thomas Preston of Holker, in Lancashire. Mary, married Sir Hugh Calverly of Lee, in Cheshire.
Margaret, married Alexander Rigby of Middleton, in Lancashire.
Anne died young.
Short Parliament; Addled Parliament. 2nd Parliament of King Charles I]
In 1614, Hoghton was elected Member of Parliament for Clitheroe to the Addled Parliament.