Matthew Thomlinson

Matthew Thomlinson (1617–1681) was an English soldier who fought for Parliament in the English Civil War and regicide of Charles I.^[1][2]

Thomlinson was the second son of John Thomlinson of York, England, and his wife Eleanor, daughter of Matthew Dodsworth.^[3] A colonel of horse in the New Model Army, he was one of the officers presenting the remonstrance to parliament in 1647. He took charge of Charles I in 1648, until the execution, but refused to be his judge. He followed Cromwell to Scotland in 1650.^[2]

On Cromwell's dissolution of the Rump Parliament he was chosen as one of the members of the Council of State that succeeded it, and of the Barebones Parliament. Sent to Ireland to join the government there, he was knighted by Henry Cromwell who, nevertheless, distrusted him; in 1658 he was recalled to London as one of Ireland's representatives in Oliver Cromwell's new House of Peers.^[4][5] He was impeached by the parliamentary party in 1660 but escaped punishment at the restoration of the monarchy.^[2]

References

1. ^ Also known as Matthew Tomlinson
2. ^ ^{a b c} Lee, Sidney (1903), Dictionary of National Biography Index and Epitome, p. 1291 (also main entry lvi 204)
3. ^  "Thomlinson, Matthew". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 
4. ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography (1930)
5. ^ Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803 (London: Thomas Hansard, 1808) [1]

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed (1903). "Thomlinson, Matthew". Dictionary of National Biography Index and Epitome. Cambridge University Press. p. 1291. 

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