The second Baronet represented Clitheroe and Lancashire in the House of Commons and was a Royalist leader during the Civil War.

The third and fourth Baronets both sat as Members of Parliament for Lancashire.

The eighth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Bold.

In 1892 the ninth Baronet resumed, by Royal licence, the ancient family surname of de Hoghton.

[3][4] The sole heir to the title is the present baronet's son, Thomas James Daniel Adam de Hoghton (born 1980)[13][14]