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- TAMWORTH
Oct. 1679
Family and Education
b. c.1632, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Hacket, bp. of Lichfield 1661-70 by 1st w. Elizabeth, da. of William Stebbins of Earl Soham, Suff. educ. Westminster; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1645, BA 1649, MA 1652; G. Inn 1653. m. (1) by 1662, Mary, da. of Joseph Henslow, bp. of Peterborough 1663-79, 1da.; (2) by 1665, Mary (d. 11 Dec. 1716), da. and coh. of John Lisle of Moxhull, 3s. 3da. suc. fa. 1670; kntd. 16 Jan. 1671.
Offices Held
Recorder, Tamworth 1670-May 1688; j.p. Warws. 1677-d., commr. for assessment 1677-80, 1689, dep. lt. 1686-7, 1689-?d., sheriff 1684-5.
Master in Chancery 1670-80.
Biography
Hacket was the grandson of a Scottish household official in the service of Prince Henry. His father, chaplain to Bishop Williams, was so moderate an Anglican that he was invited to the Westminster assembly and retained his living at Cheam throughout the Interregnum. At the Restoration he became bishop of Lichfield and launched a successful appeal for £20,000 to rebuild the cathedral, which had been ruined in the Civil War. One-quarter of the sum came from his own pocket, and the building was reconsecrated at Christmas 1669.4
Hacket's second marriage brought him possession of Moxhull, ten miles from Tamworth, where he became recorder in 1670. As a master in Chancery, he was well placed to supervise a private bill to enable him to provide for his daughter by his first marriage, which was steered through the Commons by Thomas Crouch in 1671.
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Abt 1632 - 1709 (77 years)