The Earl of Buckinghamshire at the Society's 20th anniversary service in Great Hampden Church

The Ship Money monument at Prestwood

The Palace of Westminster in the 17th century

Pyrton Manor, home of John Hampden's first wife

The former Lord Williams's Grammar School, Thame

The Earl of Buckinghamshire at the 350th anniversary ceremony in Thame

St Mary Magdalene church, Great Hampden

Charles I tries to arrest the Five Members in the House of Commons

John Hampden's funeral in 1643

Arthur Goodwin, Hampden's lifelong friend
Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees.

The Great Hall at Hampden House

St Mary Magdalene church and Hampden House

Hampden's regiment marching through Thame

Portrait of John Hampden by William Dobson

Hampden Statue in The Palace of Westminster
Cromwell, Hampden and Hobart in the Old Church at The Lee

Society AGM at Great Hampden

Members walking the Chalgrove battlefield

Magdalen College Oxford

The American privateer Hampden engaging the East India Company ship, Bridgewater, in 1779. © 2012 Christie's Images Limited

The John Hampden Monument at Chalgrove

William Hampden

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William Hampden Born: 1483Died: 1521Father: Edmund Hampden of WoodstockMother: Elizabeth BesellesChildren: Elizabeth, Margaret Hampden, Sybil Penn (nee Hampden), Richard Hampden, John HampdenSiblings: none

Isabella

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Isabella Born: Father: Thomas Hampden of Great Hampden 1434Mother: Margery PophamChildren: noneSiblings: Edmund Hampden of Woodstock, John Hampden

John Hampden

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John Hampden Born: Died: 1496Father: Thomas Hampden of Great Hampden 1434Mother: Margery PophamChildren: Sir John HampdenSiblings: Edmund Hampden of Woodstock, Isabella

The Death of John Hampden

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The death of John Hampden by Professor John Adair, the President of the John Hampden Society Click here An article by Hampden’s latest biographer into the controversial circumstances surrounding Hampden’s death and the exhumation of his presumed body by Lord Nugent in 1828.