Denny Ashburnham

For Sir Denny Ashburnham, 12th Baronet, see Ashburnham Baronets.

Sir Denny Ashburnham, 1st Baronet DL, JP (d. 11 December 1697)^[1] was an English politician.

Background

He was the oldest son of Lawrence Ashburnham and his second wife Bridget Fleetwood, daughter of Sir George Fleetwood.^[2] His paternal grandfather was Adam Ashburnham, who sat in the Parliament of England.^[3]

Career

Letter from Sir Robert Long to Sir George Downing, instructing payment to Sir Denny Ashburnham of £6 pounds interest on £200 lent. 1669

Ashburnham entered the English House of Commons in 1660, sitting as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hastings until 1679.^[4] He represented the constituency again from 1685 until 1689.^[4] He was a Commissioner for the Militia in Sussex and served for the county as a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant.^[5] On 15 May 1661, he was created a Baronet, of Bromham, in the County of Sussex.^[2]

In 1665, Ashburnham was appointed a Commissioner of the Excise, a post he held for the next three years and again from 1978 until 1689.^[5] He was a Victualler of the Navy in 1671 and also between 1573 and 1677.^[5] Ashburnham was several times a Commissioner for Assessment and between 1683 and 1689 served as Commissioner for Hearth-tax.^[5] In 1685, he was nominated mayor of Hastings.^[5]

In the aftermath of the so called Popish Plot, Ashburnham was summoned in the trial of Titus Oates as a witness.^[6]

Family

He married firstly Frances, daughter of John Ashburnham and aunt of John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham.^[7] After her death, Ashburnham remarried Anne Watkins, daughter of Sir David Watkins on 14 September 1675.^[7] He had four sons and two daughters by his first wife and three sons and one daughter by his second wife.^[7] Ashburnham was buried at Guestling in Sussex and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his sons William and Charles successively.^[3]

References

1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Baronetage". http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsA2.htm. Retrieved 16 October 2009. 
2. ^ ^{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. pp. 49. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "ThePeerage - Sir Denny Ashburnham, 1st Bt". http://www.thepeerage.com/p2673.htm#i26723. Retrieved 26 January 2009. 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Leigh Rayment - British House of Commons, Hastings". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons2.htm. Retrieved 16 October 2009. 
5. ^ ^{a b c d e} Eveline Cruickshanks, Stuart Handley and D. W. Hayton, ed (2002). The House of Commons, 1690-1715. vol. III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 551–552. 
6. ^ Pollock, John (2005). Mervyn Archdall. ed. The Popish Plot: A Study in the History of the Reign of Charles II. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 331. ISBN 1417965762. 
7. ^ ^{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. pp. 294. 

Parliament of England
Preceded by Rump Parliament	Member of Parliament for Hastings 1660 – 1679 With: Nicholas Delves 1660–1661 Edmund Waller 1661–1679	Succeeded by Sir Robert Parker John Ashburnham
Preceded by Sir Robert Parker Thomas Mun	Member of Parliament for Hastings 1685 – 1689 With: John Ashburnham	Succeeded by John Ashburnham Thomas Mun
Baronetage of England
New creation	Baronet (of Bromham) 1661 – 1697	Succeeded by William Ashburnham

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