biography
| name: |
Waller, Sir William
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1598–1688)
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| biography:
| English soldier, born in Knole, Kent, SE England, UK. A member of the Long Parliament, he fought in the West Country (1643), Oxford and Newbury (1644), and Taunton (1645). He suggested reforms on which the New Model Army was to be based, but resigned command in 1645. By 1647 he was levying troops against the army, and was imprisoned for Royalist sympathies (1648–51). In 1659 he plotted for a royalist rising and was again imprisoned. He became a member of the Convention Parliament (1660), but was unrewarded at the Restoration. |
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