See also:LORD See also:GEORGE See also:GORING GORING (1608-1657)
, See also:English Royalist soldier, son of See also:George See also:Goring, See also:earl of See also:Norwich, was See also:born on the 14th of See also:July 16o8
.
He soon became famous at See also:court for his prodigality and dissolute See also:manners
.
His See also:father-in-See also:law, See also:Richard See also:Boyle, earl of See also:Cork, procured for him a See also:post in the Dutch
' In 1905 the Rev
.
Geo
.
Grenfell reported that he had that summer shot a See also:gorilla in the Bwela See also:country, See also:east of the Mongala affluent of the See also:Congo
.
See also:army with the See also:rank of See also:colonel
.
He was permanently lamed by a See also:wound received at See also:Breda in 1637, and returned to See also:England See also:early in 1639, when he was made See also:governor of See also:Portsmouth
.
He served in the Scottish See also:war, and already had a considerable reputation when he was concerned in the " Army See also:Plot." See also:Officers of the army stationed at See also:York proposed to See also:petition 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 and See also:parliament for the See also:maintenance of the royal authority
.
A second party was in favour of more violent See also:measures, and Goring, in the See also:hope of being appointed See also:lieutenant-See also:general, proposed to See also:march the army on See also:London and overawe the parliament during See also:Strafford's trial
.
This proposition being rejected by his See also:fellow officers, he betrayed the proceedings to See also:Mountjoy See also:Blount, earl of See also:Newport, who passed on the See also:information in-directly to See also:Pym in See also:April
.
Colonel Goring was thereupon called on to give See also:evidence before the See also:Commons, who commended him for his services to the See also:Commonwealth
.
This betrayal of his comrades induced confidence in the minds of the See also:parliamentary leaders, who sent him back to his Portsmouth command
.
Nevertheless he declared for the king in See also:August
.
He surrendered Portsmouth to the parliament in See also:September 1642 and went to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland to recruit for the Royalist army, returning to England in See also:December
.
Appointed to a See also:cavalry command by the earl of See also:Newcastle, he *defeated See also:Fairfax at Seacroft See also:Moor near See also:Leeds in March 1643, but in May he was taken prisoner at See also:Wakefield on the See also:capture of the See also:town by Fairfax
.
In April 1644 he effected an See also:exchange
.
At See also:Marston Moor he commanded the Royalist See also:left, and charged with See also:great success, but, allowing his troopers to disperse in See also:search of See also:plunder, was routed by See also:Cromwell at the See also:close of the See also:battle
.
In See also:November 1644, on his father's See also:elevation to the earldom of Norwich, he became See also:Lord Goring
.
The parliamentary authorities, however, refused to recognize the creation of the earldom, and continued to speak of the father as Lord Goring and the son as General Goring
.
In August he had been despatched by See also:Prince See also:Rupert, who recognized his ability, to join See also:Charles in the See also:south, and in spite of his dissolute and insubordinate See also:character he was appointed to supersede See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, Lord See also:Wilmot, as lieut.-general of the Royalist See also:horse (see GREAT See also:REBELLION)
.
He secured some successes in the See also:west, and in See also:January 1645 advanced through See also:Hampshire and occupied See also:Farnham; but want of See also:money compelled him to See also:retreat to See also:Salisbury and thence to See also:Exeter
.
The excesses committed by his troops seriously injured the Royalist cause, and his exactions made his name hated throughout the west
.
He had himself prepared to besiege See also:Taunton in March, yet when in the next See also:month he was desired by Prince Charles, who was at See also:Bristol, to send reinforcements to See also:Sir Richard See also:Grenville for the See also:siege of Taunton, he obeyed the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order only with See also:ill-See also:humour
.
Later in the month he was summoned with his troops to the See also:relief of the king at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
Lord Goring had See also:long been intriguing for an See also:independent command, and he now secured from the king what was practically supreme authority in the west
.
It was alleged by the earl of Newport that he was willing to See also:transfer his See also:allegiance once more to the parliament
.
It is not likely that he meditated open See also:treason, but he was culpably negligent and occupied with private ambitions and jealousies
.
He was still engaged in desultory operations against Taunton when the See also:main See also:campaign of 1645 opened
.
For the See also:part taken by Goring's army in the operations of the See also:Naseby campaign see GREAT REBELLION
.
After the decisive defeat of the king, the army of Fairfax marched into the west and defeated Goring in a disastrous fight at See also:Langport on the loth of July
.
He made no further serious resistance to the parliamentary general, but wasted his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in frivolous amusements, and in November he obtained leave to quit his disorganized forces and retire to See also:France on the ground of See also:health
.
His father's services secured him the command of some English regiments in the See also:Spanish service
.
He died at See also:Madrid in July or August 1657
.
See also:Clarendon gives him a very unpleasing character, declaring that " " Goring
.
. . would, without hesitation, have broken any See also:trust, or done any See also:act of treachery to have satisfied an See also:ordinary See also:passion or appetite; and in truth wanted nothing but See also:industry (for he had wit, and courage, and understanding and ambition, uncontrolled by any
fear of See also:God or See also:man) to have been as eminent and successful in the highest See also:attempt of wickedness as any man in the See also:age he lived in or before
.
Of all his qualifications dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled, that men were not ordinarily ashamed, or out of countenance, with being deceived but twice by him."
See the See also:life by C
.
H
.
See also:Firth in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography; See also:Dugdale's Baronage, where there are some doubtful stories of his life in See also:Spain; the Clarendon See also:State Papers; Clarendon's See also:History of the Great Rebellion; and S
.
R
.
See also:Gardiner's History of the Great See also:Civil War
.
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