John Hampden (1696–1754)

His father committed suicide in 1696, putting a "sad cloud over the family".

He was page of honour of the royal stables in 1712 and became captain in Colonel Sir Robert Rich's regiment of Dragoons in about 1715.

[1] At the 1734 British general election Hampden was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament for Wendover.

[1] He was a founding governor of London's Foundling Hospital, a charity dedicated to the salvation of the capital's abandoned children.

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