Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron HattonKBPCFRS (28 June 1605 – 4 July 1670) was first cousin twice removed to the Elizabethan politician, Sir Christopher Hatton and a prominent Royalist during the reign of King Charles I of England.
He was the son of Sir Christopher Hatton of Barking, Essex and Alice Fanshawe, daughter of Thomas Fanshawe; and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He trained for the law at Gray's Inn. He was a noted antiquarian and compiled, together with William Dugdale and others, the "Book of Seals", a volume of 529 medieval charters, of which 240 are reproduced in facsimiles drawn by a highly talented draftsman. The volume was published in 1950, edited by Lewis C. Loyd and Doris Mary Stenton.
Hatton entered Parliament as MP for Peterborough in 1625, though legally too young to sit, and Clitheroe in that of 1626. On reaching the age of 21 in 1626, he was created a Knight of the Bath, as had been his father before him. He was elected a member of the Long Parliament in 1640 for both Higham Ferrers and Castle Rising, choosing to sit for the former where he was High Steward;[1] he was one of the few candidates supported by Queen Henrietta Maria to secure election.
From about 1648, he employed George Jeffreys as his steward caring for Kirby, Northamptonshire. Many of Jeffreys's letters are preserved in the Hatton-Finch correspondence; they cover a period of nearly forty years.[2]
Brunton, D.; Pennington, D. H. (1954). Members of the Long Parliament. London: George Allen & Unwin.
Loyd, Lewis C.; Stenton, Doris Mary, eds. (1950). Sir Christopher Hatton's Book of Seals. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Stater, Victor (2004). "Hatton, Christopher, first Baron Hatton (bap. 1605, d. 1670)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12606. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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