biography
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| lived:
| (1603–65)
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| biography:
| Diplomat, scientist, and writer, born in Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK. He was brought up a Catholic, studied at Oxford, but left to travel abroad. In Madrid he met Prince Charles (1623), and on returning to England was knighted and entered his service. During the Civil War he was imprisoned by the parliament (1642–3), and had his estates confiscated. After the Restoration, he was chancellor to Queen Henrietta Maria until 1664. |
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