sentences:  He died on 9 June 1657.Sir Bernard Burke writing in 1884, based on information supplied by William Roberts (the Ulster Herald between 1643 and 1655), said that Anthony Hungerford was descended from Sir John Hungerford of Down Ampney in Gloucestershire, (Anthony's great-grandfather) through his second son Henry Hungerford of Marston in Wiltshire, whose son, also Henry Hungerford of Marston was Anthony's father.William John Hardy writing in the "Dictionary of National Biography", in a volume published in 1891, suggested that he may possibly have been the "brother or half-brother of the royalist Anthony, for the Hungerfords often gave the same Christian name to more than one of their children", but Stephen Wright updating Hardy's article for the "Oxford Dictionary of Biography" suggests that "he may have been the son of Thomas Hungerford, gentleman of Garsdon, Wiltshire.