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Knights, Baronets And Peers Of The Protectorate
During the Protectorate period (1653–1659) of the Commonwealth of England, the Lord Protector reserved the power previously held by the monarch to confer knighthoods, baronetcies and peerages. Knights Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell Knights made by Oliver Cromwell. * Henry Cromwell — his son. * 8 February 1654, Thomas Vyner — Lord Mayor of London (knighted at Grocers' Hall, London). *1653 or 1654, William Boteler. *1 June 1655, John Coppleston — Sheriff of Devon, (knighted at Whitehall). *11 June 1655, John Reynolds — commissary general in Ireland, son of Sir James, of Essex, drowned 1657 (knighted at Whitehall). * 20 September 1655. Christopher Packe — Lord Mayor of London (knighted at Whitehall). *17 January 1656, Colonel Thomas Pride — (Knighted at Whitehall). *19 January 1656, John Barkstead — lieutenant of the Tower of London and major general, of Middlesex (knighted at Whitehall). *3 May 1656 Peter Julius Coyet — ambassador from the King of Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Protectorate
The Protectorate, officially the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, refers to the period from 16 December 1653 to 25 May 1659 during which England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and associated territories were joined together in the Commonwealth of England, governed by a Lord Protector. It began when Barebone's Parliament was dismissed, and the Instrument of Government appointed Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of the Commonwealth. Cromwell died in September 1658 and was succeeded by his son Richard Cromwell. Richard resigned in May 1659 due to his inability to control either the Army or Parliament. He was replaced by the English Committee of Safety, which dissolved the Third Protectorate Parliament, and reseated the so-called Rump Parliament dismissed by Cromwell in April 1653. This marked the end of the Protectorate, with the Rump acting as the legislature and the English Council of State as the executive. Background Since 1649 until the Protectorate, England, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Coppleston
John Copleston was a 17th-century English army officer, a supporter of the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and Interregnum (England) Biography John Copleston was a younger branch of the numerous family of that name in Devonshire, all of whom sprung from the Copplestone, in that county. Copleston lived at Pynes House, near Exeter, which he inherited from his grandfather. He engaged in the service of Parliament, although others of his name and family were Royalists. He commanded a regiment many years, and served in Ireland under Philip, Lord Lisle, during the years 1646 and 1647. He was Sheriff of Devon in 1655, and, having a regiment also under his command, was active in the support of Cromwell's government, especially during Penruddock's Uprising.There is a letter from him to the protector, in the third volume of Thurloe's ''State Papers'', dated Exon, 10 March 1654, detailing the measures he had adopted for securing the peace of the county of Devon . For his serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Titchborne
Robert Tichborne (c. 1604 – 1682) was an English soldier who fought in the English Civil War. He was a regicide of Charles I. Before the war he was a linen-draper by trade. In 1643 he was a captain in the London trained bands. He was Lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1647. He was an extreme republican and independent who signed Charles I's death-warrant. He was appointed as a commissioner to settle government of Scotland in 1651, following the Tender of Union. He sat for London in the Little parliament and in Cromwell's House of Lords. He was knighted in 1655, and made lord mayor of London in 1656. He was one of the conservators of liberty set up by the army, 1659. He was sentenced to death at the restoration of the monarchy, and imprisoned for life. He was author of two religious works. Burke's Peerage, page 1436. Berry, Genealogies of Hants, Page 28. Berry, Genealogies of Kent, page 361. Visitation of London, Vol. 2, page 289. Early life and origins Robert Tichborne (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheriff Of Suffolk
This is a list of Sheriffs and High Sheriffs of Suffolk. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown and is appointed annually (in March) by the Crown. The Sheriff was originally the principal law enforcement officer in the county and presided at the Assizes and other important county meetings. Most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial. There was a single Sheriff serving the two counties of Norfolk and Suffolk until 1576. On 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, the title of Sheriff of Suffolk was retitled High Sheriff of Suffolk. Sheriff Pre-17th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century High Sheriff 20th century 21st century See also High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk References British History Online-List of Sheriffs for Suffolk {{DEFAULTSORT:High Sheriff Of Suffolk Suff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Calthorpe (Roundhead)
James Calthorpe (died 1658) of Ampton who was Sheriff of Suffolk, in 1656, during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, by whom he was knighted at Whitehall, 10 December, in the same year. Biography Calthorpe was the third son, and the only one of ten children of Sir Henry Calthorpe and his wife Dorothy (daughter and heiress of Edward Humphrey) to survive to adulthood. He was educated at Catherine Hall, Cambridge. He and was Sheriff of Suffolk, in 1656, during the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, by whom he was knighted at Whitehall, 10 December, in the same year. James Calthorpe survived his father by twenty-one years, being interred in the chancel of Ampton Church the same day of the month on which Sir Henry died, 1 August 1658. Family Calthorpe married Dorothy, second daughter of Sir James Reynolds, of Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, and sister to Sir John Reynolds, Commissary-General in Ireland, on whose death she became his sole heiress). They had three sons and six dau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lockhart Of Lee
Sir William Lockhart of Lee (1621–1675), was a Scottish soldier and diplomat who fought for the Covenanters during the 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Following Royalist defeat in the 1642 to 1647 First English Civil War, Lockhart took part in negotiations between Charles I and Scottish Engagers, who agreed to restore him to the English throne. The Engagers were defeated and Charles executed in January 1649. Captured at Wigan in 1648, Lockhart was released in 1649 but excluded by the Kirk Party when they invaded England in order to restore Charles II. This ended with defeat in 1651 and Scotland was incorporated into the English Commonwealth in 1654. After his marriage to Oliver Cromwell's niece in 1654, Lockhart was appointed to a number of diplomatic and political posts under the Commonwealth. These included Commissioner for Justice in Scotland and Ambassador to France, 1656 to 1660. In this role, he helped negotiate the 1657 Treaty of Paris, an Anglo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fleetwood (regicide)
George Fleetwood (1623–1672) was an English major-general and one of the regicides of King Charles I of England. Fleetwood was one of the commissioners for the trial of Charles I, 1648–9; member of last Commonwealth Council of State and M.P. for Buckinghamshire, 1653; for Buckingham, 1654; member of Cromwell's Upper House, 1657; joined General George Monck, 1660, and though condemned to death at the Restoration, was never executed. Biography George Fleetwood was the grandson of Sir George Fleetwood (died December 1620), and the son of Charles Fleetwood (died 1628) and inherited the family estate of the Vache, near Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire, on the death of his father.Christopher Durston, "Fleetwood, George, appointed Lord Fleetwood under the protectorate (bap. 1623, d. in or after 1664)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 16 November 2009/ref>Some older sources such as Dictionary of National Biography (1889) "Fleetw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dethick
John Dethick (died 1671) was Lord Mayor of London in 1656 during the Protectorate. Biography John Dethick was the son of John Dethick of West Newington, Norfolk, and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Methwold. He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Mercers, Lord Mayor of London in 1656, and knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell on 15 September 1656. He died in 1671 at his country estate at Tottenham Tottenham () is a town in North London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey. It is located in the ceremonial county of Greater London. Tottenham is centred north-northeast of Charing Cross, bordering Edmonton to the north, Wal ... in Middlesex and was buried in the church of St Andrew Undershaft in London. Family Dethick married firstly Ann, daughter of Francis Smallpiece of Norwich and widow of Thomas Anguish. He married secondly Martha, daughter of Edmund Travers of London. He married thirdly Anne, daughter of Thomas Jolliff of Leek in Staffordshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Richard Combe
Sir Richard Combe ( 1632 – living 1675) of Hemel Hempstead, was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English politician and military officer who is widely regarded as one of the most important statesmen in English history. He came to prominence during the 1639 to 1651 Wars of the Three K ... during the Interregnum and again shortly after the Restoration by Charles II.Date of birth ; Date of death Biography Richard Combe was the son of Tobias Combe, of Felmeston-Bury, Hertfordshire, and Mary, daughter of John Theede of Crofton Com. Buckinghamshire. Combe was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell at Whitehall in August 1656. This honour passed into oblivion with the Restoration of the monarchy under Charles II in May 1660, however Charles bestowed a new knighthood on Sir Richard on 5 February 1661. During the Interregnum Sir Richard a supporter of the Parliamentary cause prospered, but after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Julius Coyet
Peter Julius Coyet (1618–1667), was a prominent Swedish envoy to England during the time of Oliver Cromwell. Biography He was born in Stockholm as the son of Gillis Coyet and the brother of Otto and Frederick Coyett; the family was of Flemish origin. He grew up in Falun, but in 1629 his father moved to Moscow and settled there as a goldsmith and master of the Mint. In 1634 his father died. Peter was sent to Amsterdam, attended lessons at the Athenaeum Illustre and moved to Leiden in 1637 to study at the university. He returned to Sweden in 1642 and was appointed as secretary in the chancellery. In 1647 he was sent to Moscow in an embassy. He probably assisted Queen Christina where to bind or buy books from Dutch booksellers. Like his brother - the first Swede to travel to Japan and China - Coyet was knighted in 1649, and in December 1654–May 1656 he was sent as an envoy in England. In July 1655 Crister Bonde arrived as ambassador to England and both dealt with Bulstrode Whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Barkstead
John Barkstead (died 1662) was an English major general and regicide. Barkstead was a goldsmith in London; captain of parliamentary infantry under Colonel Venn; governor of Reading, 1645: commanded regiment at siege of Colchester; one of the king's judges, 1648; governor of Yarmouth, 1649, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 1652; M.P. for Colchester, 1654, and Middlesex, 1656; knighted, 1656: escaped to continent, 1660; arrested, 1662; brought to England and executed. Biography The date of Barkstead's birth is unknown, was originally a goldsmith in the Strand, and was often taunted by Robert Lilburne (a leveller) and the royalist pamphleteers with selling thimbles and bodkins. "Being sensible of the invasions which had been made upon the liberties of the nation, he took arms among the first for their defence in the quality of captain to a foot company in the regiment of Colonel Venn". On 12 August 1645 he was appointed by the House of Commons governor of Reading, and his appoin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pride
Colonel Thomas Pride (died 23 October 1658) was a Parliamentarian commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, best known as one of the regicides of Charles I and as the instigator of Pride's Purge. Personal details Thomas Pride was born in Ashcott, Somerset, son of William Pride, a local tradesman. His exact date of birth is unknown but he was apprenticed to a City of London merchant in January 1622 and since the normal age for this was between 14 and 17 years old, he was probably born between 1606 and 1608. Shortly after his seven-year apprenticeship finished in 1629, he married Elizabeth Tomson, daughter of another London merchant. His 1658 will made bequests to four sons, Thomas, Joseph, William and Samuel, and a daughter, Elizabeth. Career Pride went into business for himself as a brewer and by the early 1640s owned two brewhouses in Surrey and possibly one in Edinburgh. He was also an ensign in the London Trained bands and when the First English Civil War began i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
