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For a short biography of John Hampden, visit Compton's Encyclopedia Online here.

For a fuller biography, visit the John Hampden Society's website biography page here.

The John Hampden Society's Home Page is here.

The following notes on John Hampden are the work of Thame Historical Society Research Group.

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Early Life and Marriages

John Hampden was born 1594, of a prominent Buckinghamshire family who were Lords of Great and Little Hampden.

Little is known of his early life although it is believed that at the age of six he was sent to the free Grammar School at Thame.

Ten years later he went up to Magdelan College Oxford.

Whilst at Oxford he first met his long term friend Arthur Goodwin. Again evidence is sketchy about his early life but he must have had some expertise in Latin as he was chosen to write congratulatory verses on the marriage of King James I's daughter Elizabeth to Frederick V.

After University John moved to London to study law as a member of the Inner