Ashburnham, John

Ashburnham, John

▪ English Royalist
born c. 1603
died June 15, 1671

      English Royalist who served Charles I and Charles II as a groom of the bedchamber.

      The son of Sir John Ashburnham (d. 1620), he began a career at court under the patronage of a prominent kinsman, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. He was treasurer of the Royal army during the first Civil War and commissioner in the Uxbridge negotiations (1644) before escaping abroad, to Paris.

      After the seizure of Charles I by the Parliamentary army, Ashburnham returned and joined him at Hampton Court in 1647. The king chose wrongly in following Ashburnham's advice (in opposition to that of Sir John Berkeley) to make his escape to the Isle of Wight, rather than abroad. In doing so, the king placed himself in the hands of Robert Hammond, the island's governor, who proved to be a Parliamentarian. Ashburnham incurred the unmerited charge of treachery, but of this he was acquitted by both Charles I and Charles II. He was separated, with Berkeley, from Charles on Jan. 1, 1648, and in May was imprisoned at Windsor Castle.

      After Charles I's execution (1649), Ashburnham remained in England, an object of suspicion to all parties, corresponded with Charles II on the European continent, and underwent several terms of imprisonment in the Tower of London and in Guernsey. At the Restoration of Charles II (1660), he was reinstated in his former place of groom of the bedchamber and was compensated for his losses. He also served in Parliament (1661–67).

      Ashburnham's grandson John (1656–1710) was raised to the peerage in 1689. This John's descendant Bertram (1797–1878), the 4th Earl of Ashburnham, was the collector of the famous Ashburnham Library.

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