About Robert Cromwell
Lived 1560 – 1617 (aged 56–57). Robert Cromwell was a politician.
Robert Cromwell (–1617) was an English politician who was the father of Oliver Cromwell. He represented Huntingdon in the English House of Commons. He was a man of sober Puritanism. He married Elizabeth Steward around 1590. They had 10 children, seven girls and three boys, but the only boy to survive infancy was Oliver Cromwell. Upon the death of his father Henry Williams (alias Cromwell), Cromwell inherited a small estate in Huntingdon. Cromwell was buried in All Saints, Huntingdon on 24 June 1617.
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