{{short description|Member of the Parliament of England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Use British English|date=August 2019}}
'''Adam Ashburnham''' was an English MP in the 16th century,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Hy8EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA18 ''The Visitations of the County of Sussex Made and Taken in the Years 1530''], Thomas Benolte, John Philipot, George Owen, Harleian Society, London, 1905</ref> and represented Winchelsea from 1593 to 1597.<ref>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/constituencies/winchelsea Winchelsea Elections – Dates and Candidates]. History of Parliament online. Accessed 27 April 2024.</ref>
He was the first son of Lawrence Ashburnham of Broomham by Eva, daughter of Richard Adams of Sussex, widow of John Levett of Hollington.<ref name=HoPAa>[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ashburnham-adam-1557-97 ASHBURNHAM, Adam (1557-97), of Broomham, nr. Hastings, Suss.] History of Parliament online. Accessed 27 April 2024.</ref>
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Twysden of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent, and they had five sons and one daughter.<ref name=HoPAa /> His grandson was Sir Denny Ashburnham, 1st Baronet, Member of Parliament for Hastings from 1660 to 1689.<ref name=Cokayne3>{{Citation| editor-last=Cokayne| editor-first=George Edward |year=1903 | title= Complete Baronetage volume 3 (1649-1664) | url= https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524390/page/n213 | volume=3| location=Exeter | publisher=William Pollard and Co| access-date = 13 July 2019}}</ref>
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