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William Lenthall (1591–1662) was an English politician of the Civil War period. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons for a period of almost twenty years, both before and after the execution of King Charles I.
William Lenthall (born June 1591, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Sept. 3, 1662, Burford, Oxfordshire) was an English Parliamentarian who, as speaker of the House of Commons, was at the centre of repeated struggles between the Parliamentarians and Royalists during the English Civil Wars.
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20 de abr. de 2021 · The frontispiece to early editions, engraved by William Marshall, established an iconographic model for Charles as a suffering martyr. The king is shown renouncing an earthly crown or ‘vanitas’, to clutch a crown of thorns ‘gratia’, while looking upwards to a stellar crown ‘gloria’.
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Despite Tanfield’s death in the following year, Lenthall hoped to be re-elected to Parliament in 1625, but he lost out to the ranger of Woodstock Park, Sir Gerard Fleetwood.
William Lenthall was the son of a west Oxfordshire Catholic. He was educated at St. Alban Hall, Oxford. Called to the bar without having taken a degree, he was subsequently a bencher at Lincoln's Inn.
Speaker Lenthall defied the King to uphold the privileges of Parliament. The King had to leave without arresting the Five Members. No monarch has entered the House of Commons since then.
Died: 9th November 1662 at Besselsleigh, Berkshire. William Lenthall, the Speaker of the House of Commons, was the son of William Lenthall Senior, of North Leigh and Latchford in Great Haseley in Oxfordshire, and Frances, daughter of Thomas Southwell of St. Faith's, Norfolk.
