Hungerford, Edward, Sir (1596 -1648)

Sir Edward Hungerford was the eldest son of Sir Anthony Hungerford, of Down Ampney in Gloucestershire, and Black Bourton in Oxfordshire, and Lucy Hungerford, a distant cousin. He was a Parliamentary commander during the Civil War, a Member of Parliament for Chippenham in 1620 and 1640 and was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Charles I, 1 February 1626. He lived at Corsham in Wiltshire, and later at Farleigh, and married, in 1620, Margaret, daughter and coheir of William Holyday, Lord Mayor of London, but they had no children.