John Hampden - Personal Life

Personal Life

Hampden married:

1. Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Symeon of Pyrton, Oxfordshire, in 1619, and
2. in 1640, Lettice (or Letitia), daughter of Sir Francis Knollys "the Young", widow of Sir Thomas Vachell of Coley Park, Reading. Her father was son of the elder Sir Francis Knollys and his wife, Catherine Carey.

By his first wife he had nine children (three sons and six daughters) one of whom, Richard (1631–1695) was chancellor of the exchequer in William III's reign; from two of his daughters are descended the families of Trevor Hampden and Hobart-Hampden, the descent in the male line becoming apparently extinct in 1754 in the person of John Hampden.

They lived at Hartwell House, Buckinghamshire, now a National Trust property.