Adrian Stoughton (1556–1614), of Stoughton, Surrey and

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, near

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, was an English politician. He was the son of

Thomas Stoughton Thomas Stoughton (25 March 1521 – 12 June 1591), of Stoughton, Surrey and West Stoke, Sussex, was an English politician. Family The Stoughton family had long sat in Parliament for this area. Stoughton was the son of Lawrence Stoughton of St ...

, MP and the brother of

Laurence Stoughton Sir Laurence Stoughton (1554–1615), of Stoughton, Surrey and West Stoke, Sussex, was an English politician. He was the son of Thomas Stoughton, MP and the brother of MP, Adrian Stoughton and educated at the Inner Temple. He inherited his fa ...

, MP. Educated at the

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, he was

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in 1587. He was the Recorder of Chichester from 1600. He was a

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(MP) of the

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for

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in 1593 and for

in 1597, 1601, 1604 and 1614. He married c.1583, Mary, the daughter of William Jordyn of Chitterne, Wiltshire, with whom he had 16 children, including 2 sons and 6 daughters.

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