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
The exhumation and reinterring of bodies buried in the graveyard of St Lawrence’s Brentford began on the 28th June. A number of the combatants from both sides were laid to rest in this graveyard. The developers, Ballymore, have indicated that they would work with interested parties to erect a monument commemorating the fallen. The Society … Read more
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The trustees are extremely grateful to the Oliver family for agreeing to host our AGM at Hampden House on Sunday, March 27th 2022. We hope that as many of you as possible will be able to attend a church service before the AGM (11.15am start) at St Mary Magdelene’s Great Hampden. Light refreshments will be … Read more
To register your interest in this event, please email thechairman@johnhampden.org Roger has been actively involved in the painstaking work to restore the Church’s copy of the Ship Money Petition signed by John Hampden and 30 other local residents in January 1635. He is also in the process of restoring the ‘pub sign’ that usually stands outside … Read more