Viscount St Davids is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The Viscount holds the Barony of St Davids, created in 1908. Furthermore, he holds several ancient English Baronies _ the Baronies of Strange, Hungerford and Moleyns, whose common abeyance was terminated in favour of the second Viscount's mother in 1921.
Walter Hungerford also served as speaker, but he is more celebrated as a warrior and diplomatist, serving in the former capacity at Agincourt and in the latter at the council of Constance and the congress of Arras.
When the attainders of her father and grandfather were reversed in 1485 this lady became Baroness Hungerford and Baroness de Moleyns; she married into the Hastings family and was the mother of George Hastings, 1st earl of Huntingdon.
Sir Edward Hungerford (1596-1648), who inherited the estates of his kinsman Sir Edward in 1607, was the son of Sir Anthony (1564-1627) and a descendant of Walter, Lord Hungerford.
On 20 Aug 1532 John, Lord Hussey of Sleaford, whose daughter was Hungerford's 3rd wife, wrote to Cromwell that Hungerford desired to be sheriff of Wiltshire, a desire which was gratified in 1533.
Hungerford married thrice: first Susan, daughter of Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey; second, in 1527, Alice, daughter of William, Lord Sandys; and third, in Oct 1532, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Hussey, Lord Hussey.
The elder, Sir Walter Hungerford, called 'the Knight of Farleigh', was granted land by Edward VI in 1552, and was restored by Queen Mary to the confiscated estate of Farleigh in 1554, when the attainder on his father was reversed.
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