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HENRY CROMWELL (1628-1674)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 487 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:CROMWELL (1628-1674)  , See also:fourth son of See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell, was See also:born at See also:Huntingdon on the loth of See also:January 1628, and served under his See also:father during the latter See also:part of the See also:Civil See also:War . His active See also:life, however, was mainly spent in See also:Ireland, whither he took some troops to assist Oliver See also:early in 165o, and he was one of the Irish representatives in the Little, or Nominated, See also:Parliament of 1653 . In 1654 he was again in Ireland, and after making certain recommendations to his father, now See also:lord See also:protector, with regard to the See also:government of that See also:country, he became See also:major-See also:general of the forces in Ireland and a member of the Irish See also:council of See also:state, taking up his new duties in See also:July 1655• Nominally See also:Henry was subordinate to the lord-See also:deputy, See also:Charles See also:Fleetwood, but Fleetwood's departure for See also:England in See also:September 1655 See also:left him for all See also:practical purposes the ruler of Ireland . He moderated the lord-deputy's policy of deporting the Irish, and unlike him he paid some See also:attention to the interests of the See also:English settlers; moreover, again unlike Fleetwood, he appears to have held the scales evenly between the different See also:Protestant sects, and his undoubted popularity in Ireland is attested by See also:Clarendon . In See also:November 1657 Henry himself was made lord-deputy; but before this See also:time he had refused a See also:gift of See also:property See also:worth £1500 a See also:year, basing his refusal on the grounds of the poverty of the country, a poverty which was not the least of his troubles . In 1657 he advised his father not to accept the See also:office of See also:king, although in 1654 he had supported a See also:motion to this effect; 8 See See also:Hugo See also:Goldschmidt, " Das Orchester der italienischen Oper See also:im 17 . Jahrh." Sammelband der Intern . Musikgesellschaft, Jahrg. ii., Heft 1 (See also:Leipzig, 1900), p . 24 . and after the See also:dissolution of Cromwell's second parliament in See also:February 1658 he showed his anxiety that the protector should See also:act in a moderate and constitutional manner . After Oliver's See also:death Henry hailed with delight the See also:succession of his See also:brother See also:Richard to the office of protector, but although he was now appointed See also:lieutenant and See also:governor general of Ireland, it was only with See also:great reluctance that he remained in that country . Having rejected proposals to assist in the restoration of Charles II., Henry was recalled to England in See also:June 1659 just after his brother's fall; quietly obeying this See also:order he resigned his office at once .

Although he lost some property at the Restoration, he was allowed after some solicitation to keep the See also:

estate he had bought in Ireland . His concluding years were passed at Spinney See also:Abbey in See also:Cambridgeshire; he was unmolested by the government, and he died on the 23rd of See also:March 1674 . In 1653 Henry married See also:Elizabeth (d . 1687), daughter of See also:Sir See also:Francis See also:Russell, and he left five sons and two daughters .

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