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John HAMPDEN 1653-96
Biographical Note
Of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire. He was educated primarily on the continent, where he learnt Greek, Hebrew and Latin. MP for Buckinghamshire 1679 and for Wendover in 1681 and 1689. He was imprisoned in the tower in 1683 for conspiring against the succession of James II.
Books
Library auctioned in London, 13.2.1699 (joint sale, with one other).
Sources
- History of Parliament.
- Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010.
- Greaves, Richard L. "Hampden, John (bap. 1653, d. 1696), politician and conspirator." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- G. Mandelbrote, The organisation of book auctions in late seventeenth-century London, in R. Myers (ed), Under the hammer, London, 2001, 15-36.