Richard Major

Richard Major or Richard Maijor was a Member of Parliament during the English Commonwealth era. He sat for Hampshire in both the Barebone's Parliament and the First Protectorate Parliament. Major was appointed to Oliver Cromwell's Council of State.^[1]

Major's daughter Dorothy was married to Cromwell's eldest son Richard Cromwell, who succeeded Oliver as Lord Protector in 1658.

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Bibliography

• Hainsworth, Roger. The Swordsmen in Power: War and Politics under the English Republic, 1649-1660. Sutton Publishing, 1997.