biography
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| (1626–1712)
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| biography:
| English statesman, the third son of Oliver Cromwell. He served in the parliamentary army, sat in parliament (1654, 1656), and was a member of the Council of State (1657). In 1658 he succeeded his father as Lord Protector (his two elder brothers having died); but he soon fell out with parliament, which he dissolved in 1659. He recalled the Rump Parliament of 1653, but found the task of ruling beyond him, and was forced to abdicate in 1659. After the Restoration (1660) he lived in France and Geneva, under the alias ‘John Clarke’, but returned to England in 1680, and spent the rest of his life in Cheshunt, SE England, UK. |
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