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Humphrey Mackworth (27 January 1603-December 1654) 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 Stuart's invasion in 1651. In the last year of his life, he attained national prominence as a member of Oliver Cromwell's Council and as a Member of the House of Commons for Shropshire in the First Protectorate Parliament. ==Origins and background== Humphrey Mackworth was born on 27 January 1603. He was the eldest child and only son of *Richard Mackworth of Betton Strange, Shropshire. The Mackworths were a minor gentry family, settled just to the south of Shrewsbury, but with other property in the county. Their name comes from Mackworth, a village in Derbyshire, where Mackworth Castle was at that time home to the Mackworth baronets, although they later relocated to Rutland. Richard's great-great-grandfather, Thomas Mackworth, founded the Shropshire branch of the family, acquiring Meole Brace, just south of Shrewsbury, through marriage to a cousin of Lord Zouche.〔(Blakeway, p. 390. )〕 One of his younger sons, John Mackworth, made his way up through the commerce and politics of Shrewsbury, buying Betton in 1544.〔(Blakeway, p. 391. )〕 *Dorothy Cranage, daughter of Lawrence Cranage of Keele, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, in the neighbouring county of Staffordshire. Humphrey Mackworth had two younger sisters: Margaret, who married William Juckes, and Agnes, who married William Crowne.〔 Richard Mackworth was buried at St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury on 22 May 1617〔(Register of St Chad's, Shrewsbury, p. 3. )〕 and his wife Dorothy secured control of his estates. She then married Adam Ottley of London, son of Richard Ottley of Pitchford Hall, Shropshire, by whom she had another son,〔(Foljambe, p. 364. )〕 and, after his death, she married John Gorton〔(Blakeway, p. 392. )〕〔(Phillips (ed.), 1895, ''Ottley Papers'', p. 303, note 1. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Humphrey Mackworth (Parliamentarian)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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