Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton
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Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton KB PC FRS (28 June 1605 – 4 July 1670) was first cousin twice removed to the Elizabethan politician, Sir Christopher Hatton and a prominent Royalist during the reign of King Charles I of England.
Life
He was the son of
Barking, Essex and Alice Fanshawe, daughter of Thomas Fanshawe; and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He trained for the law at Gray's Inn. He was a noted antiquarian and compiled, together with William Dugdale and others, the "Book of Seals", a volume of 529 medieval charters, of which 240 are reproduced in facsimiles drawn by a highly talented draftsman. The volume was published in 1950, edited by Lewis C. Loyd and Doris Mary Stenton
.
Hatton entered Parliament as MP for
Queen Henrietta Maria
to secure election.
During the
governor of Guernsey.[1]
From about 1648, he employed
Kirby, Northamptonshire. Many of Jeffreys's letters are preserved in the Hatton-Finch correspondence; they cover a period of nearly forty years.[2]
In 1663 he became a founding Fellow of the Royal Society.[3]
He died at
Kirby, Northamptonshire on 4 July 1670, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.[1]
Family
He married at
Hackney, Middlesex, on 8 May 1630, Elizabeth (died 1672), eldest daughter and coheiress of Sir Charles Montagu, of Boughton, Northamptonshire.[4] She died when lightning struck a powder magazine at Castle Cornet, Guernsey
.
They had two sons: Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton and Charles Hatton, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Scroggs as her second husband [5] – and three daughters.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Goodwin 1891.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ "Library and archive catalogue". The Royal Society. Retrieved 14 December 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography, Hatton, Christopher, first Baron Hatton (1605?–1670), by Gordon Goodwin. Published 1891.
- ^ Barker 1897.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Goodwin, Gordon (1891). "Hatton, Christopher (1605?-1670)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.- Barker, George Fisher Russell (1897). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 51. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Further reading
- Brunton, D.; Pennington, D. H. (1954). Members of the Long Parliament. London: George Allen & Unwin.
- Loyd, Lewis C.; Stenton, Doris Mary, eds. (1950). Sir Christopher Hatton's Book of Seals. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Stater, Victor (2004). "Hatton, Christopher, first Baron Hatton (bap. 1605, d. 1670)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12606. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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