Humphrey Mackworth (Parliamentarian)

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 Stuarts invasion in 1651. In the last year of his life, he attained national prominence as a member of Oliver Cromwells Council and as a Member of the House of Commons for Shropshire in the First Protectorate Parliament.

Anne Waller was Mackworths first wife. They were married by May 1624. She was the daughter of Thomas Waller of Beaconsfield, and distantly related to the poet Edmund Waller, who was also born in Beaconsfield. She was buried at St Chads onMay 1636. Her children were

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