biography
pronunciation:
[pim]
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| lived:
| (1584–1643)
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| biography:
| English politician, born in Brymore, Somerset, SW England, UK. He left Oxford without taking a degree, studied law, and entered parliament (1614). In 1641 he took a leading part in the impeachment of Strafford, helped to draw up the Grand Remonstrance, and in 1642 was one of the five members whom Charles I singled out by name. He stayed in London during the Civil War, and died soon after being appointed lieutenant of the Ordnance. |
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