Edward D'Oyley

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Edward D'Oyley (1617 – 1675) was an English soldier who served as Governor of Jamaica on two occasions.[1][2]

Biography

D'Oyley was a

Parliamentarian who served in the New Model Army in Wiltshire and in Ireland. In 1654 he sailed to the West Indies as a lieutenant-colonel in General Robert Venables
' regiment. Venables had been ordered to the West Indies to advance the Parliamentarian cause and to repel Spanish advances. Once there, Venables raised a local regiment and appointed D'Oyley as its colonel.

After the death in 1655 of Major-General

Royalist Thomas Hickman-Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth
.

Much of D'Oyley's time was taken up fighting the

planting.[6]

In 1662, D'Oyley returned to England, where he established himself in St Martin-in-the-Fields, an Anglican parish in the City of Westminster, London. He died in London in March 1675.

See also

References

  1. ^ Luscombe, Stephen. "Jamaica Colony: Edward D'Oyley". www.britishempire.co.uk. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  2. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0101175
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  3. ^ Mavis Campbell, The Maroons of Jamaica 1655-1796: a History of Resistance, Collaboration & Betrayal (Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, 1988), pp. 17-20.
  4. ^ C.V. Black, History of Jamaica (London: Collins, 1975), p. 54.
  5. ^ Campbell, The Maroons of Jamaica, pp. 25-27.
  6. ISBN 978-0-09-192583-3
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