DANIEL
O'See also:NEILL (c
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1612—1664), son of See also:Conn See also:MacNeill MacFagartach O'Neill, a member of the Clanaboy See also:branch of the See also:family, whose wife was a See also:sister of See also:Owen See also:Roe, was prominent in the See also:Civil See also:Wars
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He spent much of his See also:early See also:life at the See also:court of See also:Charles I., and became a See also:Protestant
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He commanded a See also:troop of See also:horse in See also:Scotland in 1639; was involved in See also:army plots in 1641, for which he was committed to the See also:Tower, but escaped abroad; and on the outbreak of the Civil See also:War returned to See also:England and served with See also:Prince See also:Rupert, being See also:present at See also:Marston See also:Moor, the second See also:battle of See also:Newbury and See also:Naseby
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He then went to See also:Ireland to negotiate between See also:Ormonde and his See also:uncle, Owen Roe O'Neill
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He was made a See also:major-See also:general in 1649, and but for his Protestantism would have succeeded Owen Roe as See also:chief of the O'Neills
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He joined Charles II. at the See also:Hague, and took See also:part in the expedition to Scotland and the Scotch invasion of England in 1652
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At the Restoration he received many marks of favour from the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, including grants of See also:land and lucrative monopolies
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He died in 1664
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