Richard Cromwell
English politician and Lord Protector (1626–1712)
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He inherited England's top job from his father Oliver and lost it in nine months — not to exile or execution, but to his own army, which simply stopped listening.
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Richard Cromwell was born on 4 October 1626, son of the man who would behead a king and rule the Commonwealth. When Oliver died in 1658, Richard became Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland, but he had no grip on power. He tried to balance the army against a Parliament full of disaffected Presbyterians and Royalists; when civilian councillors moved to prosecute a major-general for anti-Royalist actions, the army turned on him with a show of force and may have detained him. He renounced the Protectorate nine months in. General John Lambert crushed a Royalist revolt but couldn't hold…
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