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About Humphrey Mackworth
Humphrey Mackworth was an English lawyer, judge, and politician of Shropshire landed gentry origins who rose to prominence in the Midlands, the Welsh Marches and Wales during the English Civil War. He was the Parliamentarian military governor of Shrewsbury in the later phases of the war and under The Protectorate. He occupied several important legal and judicial posts in Chester and North Wales, presiding over the major trials that followed the Charles Stuart's invasion in 1651. In the last year of his life, he attained national prominence as a member of Oliver Cromwell's Council and as a Member of the House of Commons for Shropshire in the First Protectorate Parliament.
Everything about Humphrey Mackworth →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, judge
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the First Protectorate Parliament
- Born
- January 27, 1603
- Died
- 1654