Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, KG, PC (1618 – 28 July 1685) was an English statesman. A supporter of the Royalists during the English Civil War , he joined the royal family in exile before returning to England at the Restoration in 1660.
Henry Bennet, 1st earl of Arlington, (born 1618, Little Saxham, Suffolk, Eng.—died July 28, 1685, Euston, Suffolk), secretary of state under King Charles II of England from 1662 to 1674 and a leading member of Charles’s “Cabal” ministry.
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Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington primary name: Bennet, Henry other name: (1st Earl of) Arlington other name: Bennett, Henry
He contrived Charles's first secret treaty of Dover with Louis XIV in May 1670, was granted a barony in 1665 and promoted to an earldom in 1672. Disgraced as secretary in 1673, Arlington became an Admiralty commissioner, and assisted in withdrawing the garrison at Tangier.
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23 de may. de 2018 · The Oxford Companion to British History JOHN CANNON *Arlington, Henry Bennet, 1st earl of* (1618–85). Having fought for the crown in the Civil War [1], the future foreign minister of Charles II represented him at Madrid during Cromwell's alliance with France [2] against Spain [3].