Cromwell, Oliver

Cromwell, Oliver
(1599–1658)
   Politician.
   Cromwell was born in Huntingdon and was educated at the University of Cambridge. He was elected to Parliament in 1628 and 1640. In the Long Parliament he emerged as the leader of the Puritan party. In the English Civil War, he was responsible for organising the Parliamentary army and, when the King’s forces were finally defeated, he was among those who signed the death warrant of King Charles i. Subsequently his army subdued both the Irish and the Scots and in 1653 he dismissed Parliament. From then on he effectively ruled alone, as Lord Protector, until his death in 1658. During this period, he made various attempts to reorganise the Church and reform the clergy. Despite his personal sincerity and his brilliant administrative powers, Cromwell’s lack of success can be gauged by the people’s eagerness to restore the pragmatic, High- Church King Charles II to the throne in 1660.
   B. Coward, Oliver Cromwell (1991);
   C. Hill, God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan Revolution (1970).

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