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EDMUND LUDLOW (c. 1617-1692)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 113 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDMUND See also:LUDLOW (c. 1617-1692)  , See also:English parliamentarian, son of See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Ludlow of See also:Maiden See also:Bradley, See also:Wiltshire, whose See also:family had been established in that See also:county since the 15th See also:century, was See also:born in 1617 or 1618 . He went to Trinity See also:College, See also:Oxford, and was admitted to the Inner See also:Temple in 1638 . When the See also:Great See also:Rebellion See also:broke out, he engaged as a volunteer in the See also:life guard of See also:Lord See also:Essex . His first See also:essay in arms was at See also:Worcester, his next at Edgehill . He was made See also:governor of Wardour See also:Castle in 1643, but had to surrender after a tenacious See also:defence on the 18th of See also:March 1644 . On being exchanged soon afterwards, he engaged as See also:major of Sir A . See also:Hesilrige's See also:regiment of See also:horse . He was See also:present at the second See also:battle of See also:Newbury, See also:October 1644, at the See also:siege of Basing See also:House in See also:November, and took See also:part in an expedition to relieve See also:Taunton in See also:December . In See also:January his regiment was surprised by Sir M . Langdale, Ludlow himself escaping with difficulty . In 1646 he was elected M.P. for Wilts in the See also:room of his See also:father and attached himself to the republican party . He opposed the negotiations with the See also:king, and was one of the See also:chief promoters of See also:Pride's Purge in 1648 .

He was one of the king's See also:

judges, and signed the See also:warrant for his See also:execution . In See also:February he was elected a member of the See also:council of See also:state . In January 1651 Ludlow was sent into See also:Ireland as See also:lieutenant-See also:general of horse, holding also a See also:civil See also:commission . Here he spared neither See also:health nor See also:money in the public service . See also:Ireton, the See also:deputy of Ireland, died on the 26th of November 1651; Ludlow then held the chief command, and had practically completed the See also:conquest of the See also:island when he resigned his authority to See also:Fleetwood in October 1652 . Though disapproving See also:Cromwell's See also:action in dissolving the See also:Long See also:Parliament, he maintained his employment, but when Cromwell was declared See also:Protector he declined to acknowledge his authority . On returning to See also:England in October 1655 he was arrested, and on refusing to submit to the See also:government was allowed to retire to Essex . After See also:Oliver Cromwell's See also:death Ludlow was returned for Hindon in See also:Richard's parliament of 1659, but opposed the continuance of the See also:protectorate . He sat in the restored Rump, and was a member of its council of state and of the See also:committee of safety after its second See also:expulsion, and a See also:commissioner for the nomination of See also:officers in the See also:army . In See also:July he was sent to Ireland as See also:commander-in-chief . Returning in October 1659, he endeavoured to support the failing republican cause by reconciling the army to the parliament . In December he returned hastily to Ireland to suppress a See also:movement in favour of the Long Parliament, but on arrival found himself almost without supporters .

He came back to England in January 166o, and was met by an See also:

impeachment presented against him to the restored parliament . His See also:influence and authority had now disappeared, and all See also:chance of regaining them vanished with See also:Lambert's failure . He took his seat in the See also:Convention parliament as member for Hindon, but his See also:election was annulled on the 18th of May . Ludlow was not excepted from the . See also:Act of See also:Indemnity, but was included among the fifty-two for whom See also:punishment less than See also:capital was reserved . Accordingly, on the See also:proclamation of the king ordering the regicides to come in, Ludlow emerged from his concealment, and on the loth of See also:June surrendered to the See also:Speaker; but finding that his life was not assured, he succeeded in escaping to See also:Dieppe, travelled to See also:Geneva and See also:Lausanne, and thence to See also:Vevey, then under the See also:protection of the See also:canton of See also:Bern . There he remained, and in spite of plots to assassinate him he was unmolested by the government of that canton, which had also extended its protection to other regicides . He steadily refused during See also:thirty years of See also:exile to have anything to do with the desperate enterprises of republican plotters . But in 1689 he returned to England, hoping to be employed in Irish affairs . He was however remembered only as a See also:regicide, and an address from the House of See also:Commons was presented to See also:William III. by Sir See also:Edward See also:Seymour. requesting the king to issue a proclamation for his See also:arrest . Ludlow escaped again, and returned to Vevey, where he died in 1692 . A See also:monument raised to his memory by his widow is in the See also:church of St See also:Martin .

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door of the house in which he lived was placed the inscription " Omne solum forti patria, quia Patris." Ludlow married See also:Elizabeth, daughter of William See also:Thomas, of Wenvoe, See also:Glamorganshire, but See also:left no issue . His See also:Memoirs, extending to the See also:year 1672, were published in 1698–1699 at Vevey and have been often reprinted; a new edition, with notes and illustrative material and See also:introductory memoir, was issued by C . H . See also:Firth in 1894 . They are strongly See also:partisan, but the picture of the times is lifelike and realistic . Ludlow also published " a See also:letter from Sir Hardress See also:Waller . . . to Lieutenant-General Ludlow with his See also:answer " (166o), in defence of his conduct in Ireland . See C . H . Firth's See also:article in Dict . Nat . Biog .

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Guizot's See also:Monk's Contemporaries; A . See also:Stein's Briefe Englischer Fluchtlinge in der Schweiz .

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