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Family and Education
b. 20 Jan. 1628 (bap. 30 Jan.),Hunts. RO, St John, Huntingdon, par. regs. 4th but 2nd surv. s. of Oliver Cromwell* of Austin Friars, Huntingdon, and Elizabeth, da. of Sir James Bourchier of London and Little Stambridge Hall, Rochford, Essex; bro. of Richard*. educ. Emmanuel, Camb. Easter 1644; G. Inn, 22 Feb. 1654.Al. Cant.; G. Inn Admiss. m. 10 May 1653, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Francis Russell* of Chippenham, Cambs. 5s. 2d.Abbott, Writings and Speeches, iii. 23; Hunts. RO, MS 731/29A-B. d. 23 Mar. 1674.
Offices Held

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.), regt. of Thomas Harrison I*, New Model army, c. June 1647; maj. c.Jan. 1649.Wanklyn, New Model Army, i. 82, 93, 106. Col. of horse, army in Ireland, 19 Nov. 1649-May 1659;CSP Dom. 1649–50, p. 544; Wanklyn, New Model Army, ii. 50, 193, 245. maj.-gen. Aug. 1654–15 June 1659;CSP Dom. 1654, p. 321. ld. gen. Nov. 1657–15 June 1659.Hunts. RO, MS 731/14.

Irish: trustee, maintenance of Trin. Coll. and free sch. Dublin 8 Mar. 1650.A. and O. Cllr. of state and acting gov. July 1655-Nov. 1657. Chan. Dublin Univ. Aug. 1655.St J.D. Seymour, Puritans in Ire. (Oxford, 1921), 115. Ld. dep. of Ireland, Nov. 1657-Oct. 1658;TSP vi. 599. ld. lt. Oct. 1658–15 June 1659.TSP vii. 490.

Central: cllr. of state, 1 Nov. 1653.CJ vii. 344a-b.

: of the Cockpit, Whitehall.
Likenesses

Likenesses: ?miniature, S. Cooper, 1649; oil on canvas, C.J. Dusart; oils, attrib. R. Walker;Whereabouts of each unknown. wash drawing, T. Athow.Ashmolean Museum, Oxf.

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Commons 1640-1660
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CROMWELL, Henry (1628-74), of the Cockpit, Whitehall.

Will
27 Sept. 1673, pr. 20 Nov. 1674.Hunts. RO, MS 731/36.
Estates
under marriage settlement indentures of 2-3 Aug. 1653, granted Dalby and Nether Broughton, Leics., English and Welsh Gower, Swansea, Kilvey, Oystermouth, Pennard, Lougher, Kithill, Trewyddfa and Lunnon, Glam.Hunts. RO, MS 731/29A-B. Granted Portumna Castle and 6,000 acres in Connaught, Dec. 1656;Burton’s Diary, i. 259-60. also lands in Ratoath and Dunboyne, co. Meath, Lower Ormond, co. Tipperary, and Longford, co. Galway, c.1658.Hunts. RO, MS 731/31, 731/150; CSP Ire. 1660-2, pp. 235, 306. On d. owned manors of Spinney Abbey and Wicken, Cambs.Hunts. RO, MS 731/36.
Oxford 1644
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