Francis Hynde

Sir Francis Hynde (c. 1532 – 21 March 1596), of Madingley, Cambridgeshire and Aldgate, London, was an English politician and landowner particularly associated with the development of Madingley Hall and its manorial estates.

Francis Hynde was the son of Sir John Hynde, M.P., of Madingley, and his wife Ursula, daughter of John Curson of Beck Hall, Billingford, Norfolk. He matriculated as pensioner from St John's College in the University of Cambridge in 1546 and was admitted at Gray's Inn in 1549. His younger brother Thomas matriculated from the same college in 1551 and entered Gray's Inn in 1552.

He married Jane, daughter of Sir Ralph Verney of Pendley Manor near Tring in Buckinghamshire. Lady Jane Hynde was therefore sister of Sir Edmund Verney (that was father to Edmund Verney the younger, the Knight Marshal), of Francis Verney, a falconer in the household of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, and also of Urian Verney, whose 1608 monument to his father in Middle Claydon church enumerates her among his own brothers and sisters as being a daughter of Sir Ralph's. Their elder son and heir, William Hynde, was also an M.P.

The Manors of Burlewas (or Burdeleys) and Marhams (or Harlestons) at Madingley, Cambridgeshire, were among the acquisitions of land made by Francis Hynde's father, Sir John Hynde, who was buying land in Madingley from the 1520s onwards. By the time he died in 1550 the manors had become combined, and remained so in the hands of his descendants and successors. The first so to inherit was his son Francis Hynde, who was of age in 1551.

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