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Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, KG (13 April 1593 – 12 May 1641), was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War. He served in Parliament and was a supporter of King Charles I .
- William Wentworth (father), Anne Atkins (mother)
- Wentworth, South Yorkshire
- 12 May 1641 (aged 48), Tower Hill
Lieutenant-General Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (of the 2nd creation), KG (baptised 17 September 1672 – 15 November 1739), also known as in Jacobite Peerage as the 1st Duke of Strafford and 3rd Baron Raby from 1695 to 1711, was an English peer, diplomat and statesman who served as First Lord of the Admiralty .
- United Kingdom
- 15 November 1739
- c. 1672
- British Army
Thomas Wentworth, 1. Earl of Strafford war einer der führenden Politiker im Vorfeld des englischen Bürgerkriegs. Ein Höhepunkt seiner Laufbahn war seine Berufung zum Lord-Statthalter von Irland; noch heute gilt er dort als Symbolfigur eines absoluten englischen Herrschaftsanspruchs. 1640 wurde er von Karl I. zum Earl of Strafford ...
During the trial of his distant kinsman Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, he appeared as a witness for the defence and was present at his execution in May 1641.
22 de dic. de 1998 · J.F. Merritt, ed. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xiv + 293 pp. $59.95. ISBN: 0-521-56041-1. This handsomely-produced volume is a valuable contribution to various debates surrounding English and Irish politics in the 1620s and 1630s. Selected essays originated in a 1994 Sheffield conference designed to "re-evaluate" the career of Thomas Wentworth, first
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Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (April 13, 1593 – May 12, 1641) was an English statesman, a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War. His relation, another Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland, fought during the Civil War.
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of, 1593–1641, English statesman. Regularly elected to Parliament from 1614 on, he became one of the critics of George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham , and of the war with Spain.
