Denzil Holles,1st Baron Holles,was an English statesman,best remembered as one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest by Charles I in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War.
John Lambert was an English Parliamentarian general and politician. Widely regarded as one of the most talented soldiers of the period,he fought throughout the Wars of the Three Kingdoms,and was largely responsible for victory in the 1650 to 1651 Scottish campaign.
Marmaduke Langdale,1st Baron Langdale was an English landowner and soldier who fought with the Royalists during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Sir Hardress Waller was born in Kent and settled in Ireland during the 1630s. A first cousin of Parliamentarian general William Waller,he fought for Parliament in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms,becoming a leading member of the radical element within the New Model Army. In 1649,he signed the death warrant for the Execution of Charles I,and after the Stuart Restoration in 1660 was condemned to death as a regicide.
The Irish Confederate Wars,also called the Eleven Years' War,took place in Ireland between 1641 and 1653. It was the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms,a series of civil wars in the kingdoms of Ireland,England and Scotland –all ruled by Charles I. The conflict had political,religious and ethnic aspects and was fought over governance,land ownership,religious freedom and religious discrimination. The main issues were whether Irish Catholics or British Protestants held most political power and owned most of the land,and whether Ireland would be a self-governing kingdom under Charles I or subordinate to the parliament in England. It was the most destructive conflict in Irish history and caused 200,000–600,000 deaths from fighting as well as war-related famine and disease.
The Second English Civil War took place between February and August 1648 in England and Wales. It forms part of the series of conflicts known collectively as the 1639–1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms,which include the 1641–1653 Irish Confederate Wars,the 1639–1640 Bishops' Wars,and the 1649–1653 Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646. It is part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms,which also include the Bishops' Wars,the Irish Confederate Wars,the Second English Civil War,the 1650 to 1652 Anglo-Scottish War and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. Historians calculate some 15% to 20% of all adult males in England and Wales served in the military between 1639 and 1653,while around 4% of the total population died from war-related cause,versus 2.23% in World War I. These figures illustrate the impact of the conflict on society in general,and the bitterness it engendered.
Colonel Adrian Scrope,also spelt Scroope,12 January 1601 to 17 October 1660,was a Parliamentarian soldier during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms,and one of those who signed the death warrant for Charles I in January 1649. Despite being promised immunity after the Restoration in 1660,he was condemned as a regicide and executed in October.
John Belasyse,1st Baron Belasyse was an English nobleman,Royalist officer and Member of Parliament,notable for his role during and after the Civil War. He suffered a long spell of imprisonment during the Popish Plot,although he was never brought to trial. From 1671 until his death he lived in Whitton,near Twickenham in Middlesex. Samuel Pepys was impressed by his collection of paintings,which has long since disappeared.
Sir William Batten was an English naval officer and administrator from Somerset,who began his career as a merchant seaman,served as second-in-command of the Parliamentarian navy during the First English Civil War,then defected to the Royalists when the Second English Civil War began in 1648. After the 1660 Stuart Restoration,he was elected Member of Parliament for Rochester and re-appointed Surveyor of the Navy,a position he had previously held from 1638 to 1648. In this capacity,he was a colleague of the author Samuel Pepys,who mentions him frequently in his "Diary",often to his detriment.
Thomas Wentworth,1st Earl of Cleveland,was an English landowner and Royalist general during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms,described by one historian as a "much under-rated field commander". A distant relative of Thomas Wentworth,1st Earl of Strafford,executed by Parliament in May 1641,his son Thomas Wentworth,5th Baron Wentworth,also served in the Royalist army and predeceased him in March 1665.
The first siege of Hull marked a major escalation in the conflict between King Charles I and Parliament during the build-up to the First English Civil War. Charles sought to secure the large arsenal held in Kingston upon Hull,East Riding of Yorkshire. He first approached the town in late April 1642 and was rebuffed by the town's Parliamentarian governor,Sir John Hotham. Charles retreated to York but in July he received news that Hotham might be willing to hand over the town if the Royalists approached with force large enough for Hotham to surrender with his honour intact.
Yorkshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England from 1290,then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832. It was represented by two Members of Parliament,traditionally known as Knights of the Shire,until 1826,when the county benefited from the disfranchisement of Grampound by taking an additional two members.
Luke Robinson,of Riseborough,was an English Member of Parliament and of the Council of State during the Commonwealth period.
Henry Lascelles was an English-born Barbados plantation owner. He was the son of Daniel Lascelles (1655–1734) and Margaret Metcalfe. He served as Collector of Customs for the British government in Barbados. He was a director of the British East India Company 1737–45,a financier,and Member of Parliament for Northallerton. He lived in his constituency,in Harewood,in Richmond-upon-Thames,and for periods in his twenties,at his family's plantation in Barbados.
The Honourable Henry Belasyse,or Bellasis,May 1604 to May 1647,was an English politician from Yorkshire who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1625 and 1642.
William Ogle,1st Viscount Ogle was an English soldier from Northumberland who settled in Hampshire and was Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1640 to 1643. He served in a number of wars and was Royalist governor of Winchester from 1643 to 1645.
George Twisleton,1618 to 12 May 1667,was a member of the landed gentry from Yorkshire and colonel in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Under the Commonwealth of England,he sat as MP for Anglesey from 1654 to 1659.
Daniel Lascelles,English landowner and politician of Stank and Northallerton,North Riding,Yorkshire,was elected to the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Northallerton at a by-election on 3 February 1702. He did not stand for election again. He also served as High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1718–19.
Thomas Lascelles,also spelt Lassells,was an English radical politician and businessman of the second half of the 17th century. He is now best known for the construction of Mount Grace Manor House,one of the few extant examples of architecture from the 1649 to 1660 Commonwealth or Protectorate.
