Bennett, Robert (1605–1683), parliamentarian army officer and religious radical, was born in Hexworthy, Lawhitton, Cornwall, the eldest son of Richard Bennett esquire and his wife, Mary, daughter of Oliver Clobery of Bradstone, Devon. He matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, on 13 December 1622 and left after taking his BA in 1624; during 1622 he was also enrolled at the ...
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Bennett, Robert (1605–1683), parliamentarian army officer and religious radical
John Morrill
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Borthwick, Sir John (d. 1569), soldier and religious activist
Martin Holt Dotterweich
Borthwick, Sir John (d. 1569), soldier and religious activist, is of obscure origins. He was not, as has been claimed, a son of William, third Lord Borthwick, but became son-in-law of the fourth lord [see Borthwick, William] when he married the latter's youngest daughter, ...
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Vicars, Hedley Shafto Johnstone (1826–1855), army officer and evangelical
G. C. Boase
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
Vicars, Hedley Shafto Johnstone (1826–1855), army officer and evangelical, was born on 7 December 1826, in Mauritius, where his father was then stationed, the son of Richard Vicars (1794–1839), a captain in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Marianne (or Mary Ann...
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Wood, Thomas (d. 1577), soldier and religious activist
Simon Adams
Wood, Thomas (d. 1577), soldier and religious activist, may have been of either Leicestershire or Yorkshire origin. Until 1960 he was known only as one of the four Englishmen who founded the protestant exile community in Frankfurt am Main on 27 June 1554 and as an elder of the later English congregation at ...
