Background
Hoghton was the eldest son of Sir Gilbert Hoghton, 2nd Baronet.
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He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in April 1647. In 1656 he was re-elected Member of Parliament for Lancashire in the Second Protectorate Parliament.
He was appointed Sheriff of Lancashire in 1659.
After the restoration Hoghton was a patron of nonconformist ejected ministers. Charles, his successor, and the great-great-great-grandfather of author/mathematician Lewis Carroll.
Benjamin, who died unmarried. One who knew him well gives this character of him:—"lieutenant has pleased Almighty God, by a sudden stroke, to make a sad breach in a worthy family, in taking away the chief head thereof.
A person of great worth and honour, of an honourable extraction, of a generous disposition, and of a courteous, kind, and affable temper..".
Membership
In 1645, Hoghton was elected Member of Parliament for Lancashire in the Long Parliament.
