Bennet Hoskyns

Sir Bennet Hoskyns, 1st Baronet (1609–1680) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1659.

His father was a poet, lawyer and politician[1] on whose death in 1638 Bennet inherited an estate at Moorhampton, near Hereford.

He was then elected MP for Hereford in the Long Parliament of 1645, but was excluded in Pride's Purge.

[2] At the end of the Civil War Hoskyns acquired (c. 1660) Harewood Park in Herefordshire from the Brown family.

Their son John succeeded to the baronetcy and Harewood Park.