Oliver Cromwell statue Westminster London
Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599 in Huntingdon His ancestors had benefited from the power of a distant relative Thomas Cromwell who secured them former monastic lands in 1538 9 Cromwell s grandfather built an elegant house on the outskirts of Huntingdon and regularly entertained King James the hunting was good in Huntingdon and other prominent courtiers But Cromwell s father was a younger son who only inherited a small part of the family fortune and he was brought up in a modest town house Burdened by debt and a decline in his fortunes he sold up in 1630 and took a lease on a farm a few miles away in St Ives It would appear that in 1634 Cromwell attempted to emigrate to Connecticut in America but was prevented by the government from leaving
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