Giles Hungerford

Who was Giles Hungerford?

Sir Giles Hungerford of Coulston, Wiltshire was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1660 and 1685.

Hungerford was the son of Anthony Hungerford of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire. He subscribed at Cambridge University on 11 November 1631 and was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1641.

In 1660, Hungerford was elected Member of Parliament for Whitchurch in the Convention Parliament.He was re-elected MP for Whitchurch in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until 1679. He was knighted on 27 November 1676. In 1679 he was elected MP for Devizes and sat until his death in 1685.

Hungerford died at the age of 70 and has a memorial in Salisbury cathedral.

Hungerford was the brother of Anthony and half brother of Edward who were on opposite sides in the English Civil War.

His daughter Margaret by his second wife, Margaret, married Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton in 1691.