Sir Richard Browne was a merchant and MP from London who became a Major general in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A moderate Presbyterian, after victory in the First E
Sir Richard Browne
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Sir William Waller JP was an English soldier and politician, who commanded Parliamentarian armies during the First English Civil War. Elected MP for Andover to the Long Parliament in 1640, Waller reli
Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet, of London
…was organising a regiment of dragoons recruited in London, of which he became Colonel. He helped to disarm Royalists in Kent and then served under Sir William Waller at the seizure of Winchester in December. Browne's Dragoons were in action at Brill in January 1643. In July 1643, Browne was given an independent…
Portrait by Cornelius Johnson, c. 1643
Sir Horace Vere; Waller served with him in Venice and Holland
Ralph Hopton, Waller's close friend and opponent