Denny Ashburnham
Sir Denny Ashburnham, 1st Baronet (c.1628 – 11 December 1697) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1660 and 1689.
Background[edit]
Ashburnham was the eldest son of Lawrence Ashburnham of Broomham Park, Guestling, Sussex, and his second wife, Bridget Fleetwood, daughter of Sir George Fleetwood.[1] His paternal grandfather was Adam Ashburnham, who sat in the Parliament of England.[2]
Career[edit]
Ashburnham was a Commissioner for the Militia and became a Justice of the Peace for Sussex in March 1660. In April 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Hastings in the Convention Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Hastings in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament.[3] On 15 May 1661, he was created a baronet, of Bromham, in the County of Sussex.[1] In 1665, Ashburnham was appointed a Commissioner of the Excise, a post he held for the next three years and again from 1688 until 1689.[3] He became a Deputy Lieutenant for Sussex in 1670. He was a Victualler of the Navy in 1671 and also between 1673 and 1677.[3] Ashburnham was several times a Commissioner for Assessment and between 1683 and 1689 served as Commissioner for Hearth-tax.[3] In 1685, he was nominated mayor of Hastings.[3]
In the aftermath of the so-called Popish Plot, Ashburnham was summoned in the trial of Titus Oates as a witness.[4]
Ashburnham died at the age of about 68 and was buried at Guestling on 11 December 1697.[3]
Family[edit]
Ashburnham married firstly Frances Ashburnham, daughter of John Ashburnham and aunt of John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham.[5] After her death, he married Anne Watkins, daughter of Sir David Watkins on 14 September 1675.[5] He had four sons and two daughters by his first wife and three sons and one daughter by his second wife.[5] Ashburnham was buried at Guestling in Sussex and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his sons William and Charles successively.[2]
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References[edit]
- ^ a b Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 49.
- ^ a b Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 155. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ a b c d e f History of Parliament Online - Ashburnham, Denny
- ^ Pollock, John (2005). Mervyn Archdall (ed.). The Popish Plot: A Study in the History of the Reign of Charles II. Kessinger Publishing. p. 331. ISBN 1-4179-6576-2.
- ^ a b c Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 294.
- ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
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