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Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon in 1599 and lived there for more than half his life. The museum is located in the former grammar school building in which Cromwell received his early education. Founded in 1962, the museum contains significant artefacts, paintings and printed material relating to The Protectorate. [1]
Hinchingbrooke House is an English stately home in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, now part of Hinchingbrooke School. The house was built around an 11th-century Benedictine nunnery . [ 1 ] After the Reformation it passed into the hands of the Cromwell family, and subsequently became the home of the Earls of Sandwich , including John Montagu, 4th ...
Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver Cromwell was born there in 1599 [2] and became one of its Members of Parliament (MP) in 1628.
Cromwell Museum: Huntingdon: Biographical: Life of 17th century English military and political leader Oliver Cromwell: Farmland Museum and Denny Abbey: Waterbeach: Multiple: Agriculture, local history, and historic abbey dating to the 12th century Elton Hall: Elton: Historic house: Baronial hall and gardens on a 3,800-acre (15 km2) estate Ely ...
CROMWELL, alias WILLIAMS, Henry (c.1537-1604), of Hinchingbrooke and Ramsey Abbey, Hunts. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558–1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981. Teri Fitzgerald, Sir Richard Cromwell: A King’s Diamond; The Cromwell Museum, Huntingdon; Pedigree of Oliver Cromwell
Cromwell Museum Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire: Grammar School: 1854–1856: 10 January 1951 1161870: Cromwell Museum. More images. Park Wall of Hinchingbrooke House ...
Sir Oliver Cromwell (1566-1655), uncle and namesake of the Protector, leased the estate for 21 years and sublet it to his brother Richard Cromwell from 1599. In 1664, it was purchased by a wealthy London lawyer, Sir James Beverley and remained in the family until sold in 1717 to General Thomas Handasyd , a former Governor of Jamaica ; his son ...
Robert Cromwell (c. 1560–1617) was an English politician who was the father of Oliver Cromwell. He represented Huntingdon in the English House of Commons. [1] He was a man of sober Puritanism. He married Elizabeth Steward around 1590. [2] They had 10 children, seven girls and three boys, but the only boy to survive infancy was Oliver Cromwell ...