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SIR JOHN HOTHAM (d. 1645)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOHN See also:HOTHAM (d. 1645)  , See also:English parliamentarian, belonged to a See also:Yorkshire See also:family, and fought on the See also:continent of See also:Europe during the See also:early See also:part of the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War . In 1622 he was made a See also:baronet, and he was member of See also:parliament for See also:Beverley in the five parliaments between 1625 and 164o, being See also:sheriff of Yorkshire in 1635 . In 1639 he was deprived by the See also:king of his See also:office of See also:governor of See also:Hull, and joiqing the See also:parliamentary party refused to pay See also:ship-See also:money . In See also:January 1642 See also:Hotham was ordered by the parliament to seize Hull, where there was a large See also:store of munitions of war; this was at once carried out by his son See also:John . Hotham took command of Hull and in See also:April 1642 refused to admit See also:Charles I. to the See also:town . Later he promised his prisoner, See also:Lord See also:Digby, that he would surrender it to the king, but when Charles appeared again he refused a second See also:time and drove away the besiegers . Meanwhile the younger Hotham was taking an active part in the See also:Civil War in Yorkshire and See also:Lincolnshire, but was soon at variance with other parliamentary leaders, especially with the Fairfaxes, and complaints about his conduct and that of his troops were made by See also:Cromwell and by See also:Colonel See also:Hutchinson . Soon both the Hothams were corresponding with the See also:earl of See also:Newcastle, and the younger one was probably ready to betray Hull; these proceedings became known to the parliament, and in See also:June 1643 See also:father and son were captured and taken to See also:London . After a See also:long delay they were tried by See also:court-See also:martial, were found guilty and were sentenced to See also:death . The younger Hotham was beheaded on the 2nd of January 1645, and in spite of efforts made by the See also:House of Lords and the Presbyterians to See also:save him, the See also:elder suffered the same See also:fate on the following See also:day . See also:Sir John Hotham had two other sons who were persons of some See also:note: Charles Hotham (1615-c . 1672), See also:rector of See also:Wigan, a See also:Cambridge See also:scholar and author of Ad philosopliiam Teutonicam Manuductio (1648); and Durant Hotham (1617-1691), who wrote a See also:Life of See also:Jacob See also:Boehme (1654) .

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