Thomas de Hungerford, Speaker of the House of Commons

Bef 1328 - 1397  (> 69 years)

• Name	Thomas de Hungerford
  Suffix	Speaker of the House of Commons
  Birth	Bef 1328	of Farleigh, Somerset, England   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Dec 1397  [3]
  Burial	Farleigh, Somerset, England   [3]
  Person ID	I12977	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Walter de Hungerford,   b. of Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England
  Mother	Elizabeth Fitz John
  Family ID	F3120	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan Hussey   d. 21 Mar 1412
  Marriage	Bef 1376  [2]
  Children	+ 1. Walter Hungerford, Speaker of the House of Commons,   b. 22 Jun 1378, of Farleigh, Somerset, England d. 9 Aug 1449 (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F8147	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2017

  
  

• Notes

  "[T]he first person to be recorded in the rolls of the Parliament of England as holding the office of Speaker of the House of Commons of England, although that office had existed before his tenure." [Wikipedia] Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1355-60. Knight of the shire for Wiltshire 12 times and for Somerset 5 times. Chief steward to John of Gaunt.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., place only. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.