Sir Gilbert Hoghton, 2nd Baronet

Sir Gilbert Hoghton, 2nd Baronet (1591 – April 1648) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1614 and 1640.

[4] In April 1640, Hoghton was re-elected MP for Lancashire to the Short Parliament.

In the Civil War he was a prominent Lancastrian Royalist commander and the first to take action in the Blackburn Hundred.

In February 1643 he was present at the loss of Preston and later served at Chester.

Hoghton died in April 1648 and was buried at Preston.