English politician
Sir Gilbert Hoghton, 2nd Baronet (1591 – April 1648) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1614 and 1640. He was a Royalist leader during the English Civil War. 
Hoghton was the son of Sir Richard Hoghton, 1st Baronet of Hoghton Tower, Lancashire. He became a courtier, and a favourite of King James I and was knighted by the king at Whitehall on 21 July 1604.
Biography.
In 1614, Hoghton was elected Member of Parliament for Clitheroe to the Addled Parliament. and was then elected in 1621 to hold the county seat for Lancashire until 1622. He was re-elected MP for Lancashire in 1626. In 1630 he inherited the baronetcy on the death of his father.
In April 1640, Hoghton was re-elected MP for Lancashire to the Short Parliament. He was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1643. 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 Tower was used a Royalist garrison and part of the tower was accidentally blown up by parliamentary forces, killing a number of them. The estate was subsequently sequestered.
Hoghton died in April 1648 and was buried at Preston.
Family.
Hoghton had married Margaret (died 22 December 1657), the eldest daughter of four daughters and co-heiress of Sir Roger Aston of Cranford, Middlesex, with whom he had six sons and four daughters:
Of the daughters:
He was succeeded by his son Sir Richard, who was able to recover the Hoghton estate.
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