Anthony Hungerford

Hungerford should not be confused with his namesake and contemporary, the Royalist Member of Parliament Anthony Hungerford Anthony Hungerford (1614/15?–1657) was a Colonel in the English Parliamentary army who fought in Ireland during the War of the Three Kingdoms. Biography In September 1646, Anthony Hungerford, then Major Hungerford, pressed for a commission as governor of the parliamentarian garrison at Stoke and for an appointment as Major of the standing companies in Shropshire. In March 1647 the parliament seems to have accepted his services, and as a Colonel, sent him to Ireland, where he landed on 30 April 1647. He was colonel of a regiment at Drogheda in 1648. In 1650, after being shot in the head at the Battle of Dungan's Hill in County Meath, he returned to England, where he busied himself in 'discovering' papists' and other delinquents' estates. In July 1652 the council of state granted him £100 to enable him to return to Ireland. He was in 1653 a prisoner for debt in the "upper bench" in London, and petitioned parliament for payment of his commission as a debtor. According to a certificate from Sir John Danvers, he was "of most honest and religious conversation, very free from the common vices of swearing, drunkenness, &c., and most valiant and faithful" in the service of the parliament.