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

No. 15 – Summer 1996

• JH connections with the Isle of Wight – Paul Hooper & Jan Toms
• Lock of JH’s hair
• Chalgrove Battlefield Walk
• Service at Great Hampden Church
• Obituary – Miss Ursula Pye (a direct descendant of JH’s daughter Anne)
• Member Angela Feaviour cycling from Belfast to Plymouth
• Chalgrove Seminar proposed by Battlefields Trust
• Book Review: “British Battles” – weak report on Chalgrove
• Donations of artefacts by Gladys Hargreaves
• How the Hampden’s retained their estates after 1066
• Mention of JH in Ruth Spalding’s biography of Bulstrode Whitlocke

No. 14 – Spring 1996

• Bid to purchase Chalgrove Battlefield
• Report on 4th AGM
• George Morris – naming Aylesbury Roundabouts
• Earlier Hampden Society – Lord Byron a member
• Idea of a JH Society Library
• Obituary – William (Bill) Wood

No. 12 – Autumn 1995

• Hampden Ale – Chiltern Brewery
• Letter from Dr Paul Hooper – JH Parliamentary Career
• The JHS & the Internet
• History of Hampden House – Part 1
• Derek Lester promoted to Major & Commanding Officer of Hampden’s Regiment
• Letter from John Hadfield re portraits of JH
• David Appelby responds

No. 11 – Summer 1995

• Celebrate Chalgrove Victory with Heritage Trail and Dinner
• Edward Clough report of JH’s Death “a fraud”
• Fred Tildersley joins the JHS
• Future of the Chalgrove monument – structural survey
• Hampden’s in Barbados – Black Ivory reference

No. 10 – Spring 1995

• Victory – Chalgrove added to EH Battlefields Register
• The Battle of Chalgrove 1643 – by Derek Lester
• Hampden Saint or Sinner? Article in Telegraph
• JH a Tax Dodger – Fred Tildesley letter to Thame Gazette
• Mount Hampden in Zimbabwe
• Ship Money Monument at Honor End – maintenance

No. 08 – Autumn 1994

● English Heritage say make a case for Chalgrove
● Hampden Maine Bicentenary Celebration
● Society Visit to Maine
● Hampden Table sold
● Event at Missenden Abbey – John Hampden & his Times
● Book Review “Eye and Ear Witness” by Anna Mitford

No. 07 – Summer 1994

• EH say battle of Chalgrove just a skirmish
• Dr John Adair’s article for “The House” magazine about JH
• JH’s gift to John Fiennes – a silver cup at Broughton Castle
• Letter from the CEO of EH – Jennifer Page
• Great Kimble and the Ship Money Defaulters
• Special sermon at Great Hampden Church in memory of JH



No. 06 – Spring 1994

• Problems with stability of Chalgrove Battlefield Monument
• 400th anniversary of JH’s birth marked at Lord William’s School Thame
• The Hampden Bomber – named for the place not the man
• Obituary – George Martin Hammond Society Treasurer and Membership Sec
• Hampden and Downing Street
• Robert Hammond – objections to local MPs being made honorary members