Walter Strickland
Walter Strickland (1598? – 1 November 1671) was an English politician and diplomat who held high office during the Protectorate.
Biography
Strickland was the younger son of Walter Strickland of
Following the outbreak of
In June 1650 Strickland was recalled and received the thanks of Parliament, but the following year after the death of William II of Orange (which to the stricter English Puritans looked like God's judgement against him for his protection of the Stuarts), he was again sent to the Netherlands, accompanying Oliver St John in his famous and unsuccessful embassy. They proposed a close alliance against the Catholic world and ideally a merger of the two commonwealths into a single state, offering to restrain the English commercial-interest party, which saw the Dutch as their greatest opponents. However, neither the regents nor the Dutch populace had the least enthusiasm for a Protestant crusade, and Strickland and St John were unable to overcome their hostility. They returned home with no arguments to restrain unfettered commercial competition with the Dutch, and relations quickly deteriorated into the First Anglo-Dutch War.
Strickland had been elected to Parliament as member for Minehead in 1645, and from his final return from Holland in 1651 began to play an active role. He was elected to the third (1651) and fifth (1652) councils of state of the Commonwealth, and after the expulsion of the Rump was one of four civilians on the council of thirteen elected by the army to rule in Parliament's stead.
Strickland was subsequently a member of the nominated
After Oliver Cromwell's death, Strickland was a member of
Family
Strickland married Anne Morgan, daughter of
Notes
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (September 2013) |
- ^ "Strickland, Walter (STRT619W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Pieter Geyl History of the Low Countries
- ^ Pieter Geyl History of the Low Countries
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography volume lv p. 63 citing Cromwelliana, pp. 141, 143; Harleian Miscellany, iii. 477
- ^ Noble, p. 350
References
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Firth, Charles Harding (1898). "Strickland, Walter". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 54–56. Endnotes:
- Foster's Yorkshire Pedigrees;
- Foster's Baronetage;
- Burke's Baronetage;
- Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire (Surtees Soc.) xxxvi. 112;
- Masson's Milton, passim.
Further reading
- D. Brunton & D. H. Pennington, "Members of the Long Parliament" (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)
- Pieter Geyl, "The Netherlands in the Seventeenth Century, Part Two 1648-1715" (London: Ernest Benn, 1964)
- A. Gooder (ed.) "The Parliamentary Representation of Yorkshire, 1258-1832" (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, 1935)
- Lord Hawkesbury, "Some East Riding Families" (Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, 1899)
- G. R. Park, "The Parliamentary Representation of Yorkshire" (1886)
- Victoria County History of the East Riding of Yorkshire