Sir Richard Hoghton, 3rd Baronet (c. 1616 – 3 February 1678) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1656.
He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War.
[2] Unlike his Royalist father, he was a zealous supporter of parliament and a firm adherent of the Presbyterian cause.
After the restoration Hoghton was a patron of nonconformist ejected ministers.
[1] Hoghton married Lady Sarah, daughter of Philip Stanhope, 1st Earl of Chesterfield, and had several sons and daughters: of the sons, those survived to maturity were:[4] One who knew him well gives this character of him:—"It has pleased Almighty God, by a sudden stroke, to make a sad breach in a worthy family, in taking away the chief head thereof; a person of great worth and honour, of an honourable extraction, of a generous disposition, and of a courteous, kind, and affable temper...".