Category

Cavaliers

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Prince Rupert of the Rhine

English-German aristocrat, army officer, admiral, scientist, and colonial administrator (1619–1682)

writer, gardener and diarist (1620-1706)

William Davenant

English poet and playwright

thumb|upright|Prince Rupert of the Rhine, often considered to be an archetypal Cavalier

English author and biographer (1593-1683)

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

English politician and historian (1609–1674)

English composer and musician

James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose

Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1612-1650)

British botanist (1620-1683)

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle

English polymath and aristocrat (1592-1676)

English courtier and diplomat (1603–1665)

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton

Scottish nobleman and leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1606-1649)

Thomas Urquhart

Scottish writer and translator

London bookseller and publisher (1623-1686)

Winston Churchill

English soldier, historian, and politician (1620–1688)

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

English politician (1621-1679)

William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset

Duke of Somerset (1588-1660)

Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby

English noblewoman (1599-1664)

William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford

English Royalist and Catholic martyr (1614-1680)

David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark

Scottish cavalry officer (1600-1682)

Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland

English peer, nobleman, and politician from the Spencer family (1620-1643)

Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford

Royalist during the English Civil War

Roger L'Estrange

English pamphleteer and author, and staunch defender of royalist claims (1616-1704)

William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton

Scottish politician and Peer (1616-1651)

Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham

English peer, Governor of Barbados

Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet

English diplomat and politician (1608-1666)

Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton

English politician

William Gascoigne

English astronomer, mathematician and instrument maker

Blanche Arundell

English noblewoman

John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol

English diplomat

Richard Nicolls

first English colonial governor of New York province

Poet aligned with King Charles I

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington

English politician

William Chamberlayne

English physician and poet

Sir William Berkeley

English colonial governor of Virginia

George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol

English politician

English religious writer and autobiographer

British Royal Navy Admiral (1622-1692)

English botanist and Royalist soldier of the English Civil War

George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny

Scottish nobleman and royalist military commander

English nonconformist preacher and author

John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl

Scottish judge (1631–1703)

George Carteret

British Royalist politician and colonial proprietor of New Jersey (1610-1679)

Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton

English politician (1601-1643)

Jacob Astley, 1st Baron Astley of Reading

British Royalist commander (1579 – February 1652)

Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset

English politician and Earl (1591-1652)

Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey

English noble (1582-1642)

British poet and playwright

English playwright and politician

Henry Mainwaring

British naval officer and pirate (1587-1653)

17th century English theologian and scholar

Sidney Godolphin

English poet, courtier and politician (1610-1643)

Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of St Albans

English politician, diplomat and courtier (1605–1684)

English theologian (1605-1660)

Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon

Henry Vane the Elder

English politician

James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton

English politician (1622-1681)

George Goring, Lord Goring

English Royalist soldier; (1608-1657)

Tam Dalyell of the Binns

Scottish general

English politician