William Strode (of Barrington)

William Strode (1589?–1666), called "of Barrington" to distinguish him from contemporaries of the same name, was an English Parliamentarian officer and Member of Parliament.

Life

He was the youngest son of William Strode of Shepton Mallet and Elizabeth, daughter of Geoffrey Upton of Warminster. A Somerset man, he opposed the king's commission of array in the county, and was one of the parliamentary deputy-lieutenants there in 1642. He became a colonel in the parliament's service. In 1646 he was returned to the Long Parliament for Ilchester. A supporter of the Presbyterian faction in the House of Commons, he was expelled in Pride's Purge of 1648.

In 1661 he was imprisoned and obliged to make submission for disobeying the orders of the king's deputy-lieutenants in Somerset. He died in 1666, aged 77.

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain"Strode, William (1599?-1645)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.