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Sir Richard Williams (c. 1510 – 20 October 1544), also known as Sir Richard Cromwell, was a Welsh soldier and courtier in the reign of Henry VIII who knighted him on 2 May 1540. He was a maternal nephew of Thomas Cromwell, profiting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries in which he took an active part. He was the patrilineal great-grandfather of Oliver Cromwell. Richard Williams was born ...
12 de dic. de 2023 · Henry Williams (alias Cromwell) Wikipedia. (Text) CC BY-SA. Sir Henry Williams, alias Cromwell (died 1604) was a Knight of the Shire for Huntingdonshire and a grandfather of Oliver Cromwell. Sir Henry Williams, of Welsh descent, the eldest son and heir of Sir Richard Williams, was highly esteemed by Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1563 ...
Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell. / 52.631111; -0.823056. Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell (before 1 March 1538 [2] – 20 November 1592 [3] ), the son of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell and Elizabeth Seymour, was an English peer during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was the grandson of Henry VIII 's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, 1st ...
Williams, alias Cromwell, was in the House of Commons in 1563, as one of the knights of the shire for Huntingdonshire, and was four times appointed Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, by Elizabeth, viz. in the 7, 13, 22, and 34 years of her reign; and in the 20th, she nominated him a commissioner with others, to inquire concerning the draining of The Fens through Cloughs Cross and ...
Portrait of Sir Thomas White by "Sampson the paynter" (1597). In the collection of the City of Oxford. Statue of Sir Thomas White in Coventry, West Midlands Sir Thomas White (1492 – 12 February 1567) was an English cloth merchant, Lord Mayor of London in 1553, and a civic benefactor and founder of St John's College, Oxford and Merchant Taylors' School. Biography Thomas White was born in 1492 ...
The family then consistently used and wrote its name as "Williams, alias Cromwell", well into the 17th century. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. Baron Henry Williams' father Richard Williams {1500-1544} changed his surname to "Cromwell" and was married to FRANCES MURFYN 1499 – 1533. He was also known as The Golden Knight.
Only one of the boys survived infancy – Oliver Cromwell, who was born in Huntingdon on 25 th April 1599. We know relatively little about Oliver’s early life. We know that he attended the Huntingdon Grammar School (then located in the building which is now the Cromwell Museum) between 1610 and 1616, where he would have received a ...
