Richard Hampden

[1] After the fall of Earl of Clarendon in 1667, he became more active in politics, voicing his opposition to the war with the Dutch and the alliance with France.

Hampden was particularly active during the Popish Plot and undermined the authority of the Lord Treasurer the Earl of Danby.

In 1681 he was elected to the Oxford Parliament for the county of Buckinghamshire (exchanging seats with his son John Hampden).

Hampden sat in the Convention Parliament of 1689 and was a central figure in the enabling legislation to crown William and Mary.

[4] In 1690 he represented the county of Buckinghamshire in William and Mary's first parliament, and in the same year was made Chancellor of the Exchequer.