Sir Richard Hoghton, 3rd Baronet

Hoghton was the eldest son of Sir Gilbert Hoghton, 2nd Baronet.[1]

In 1645, Hoghton was elected Member of Parliament for Lancashire in the Long Parliament.[2] Unlike his Royalist father, he was a zealous supporter of parliament and a firm adherent of the Presbyterian cause. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in April 1647.[1] In 1656 he was re-elected MP for Lancashire in the Second Protectorate Parliament.[3]

He was appointed Sheriff of Lancashire in 1659. After the restoration Hoghton was a patron of nonconformist ejected ministers.[1]

Hoghton married Lady Sarah, daughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield, and had several sons and daughters: of the sons, those survived to maturity were:[4]

• Charles, his successor, and the great-great-great-grandfather of author/mathematician Lewis Carroll.
• Benjamin, who died unmarried.

One who knew him well gives this character of him:—"It has pleased Almighty God, by a sudden stroke, to make a sad breach in a worthy family, in taking away the chief head thereof; a person of great worth and honour, of an honourable extraction, of a generous disposition, and of a courteous, kind, and affable temper...".[4]

• Betham, William (1801). The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families; with Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Coats of Arms. Vol. 1. Burrell and Bransby. p. 38.
• Pink, William Duncombe; Beaven, Alfred B. (1889). The parliamentary representation of Lancashire, (county and borough), 1258-1885, with biographical and genealogical notices of the members, &c. London: H. Gray. p. 72.
• Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229, 233, 272, 275.

• Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1900). Complete Baronetage 1611–1625. Vol. 1. Exeter: William Pollard and Co. pp. 10.