James Whitelocke (Roundhead)
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Colonel James Whitlocke (1631 – October 1701) of Trumpington, Cambridgeshire supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War, and was a Member of Parliament during the Interregnum.[1]
Whitlocke was the son of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke and his first wife Rebecca Bennet, daughter of Thomas Bennet, and was baptised on 28 July 1631. He entered the Middle Temple 1647, and was chosen a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford by the Parliamentary Visitors on 22 January 1649. He was a Captain and afterwards a Colonel in the Parliamentary Army. In 1653, he was concerned in a lease of gold and silver mines in Ireland with Miles Fleetwood and others.[2]
In 1654, Whitlocke was elected Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire in the First Protectorate Parliament. He was knighted by Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector on 6 January 1656. (His father had been knighted only two years earlier.) [2]
In 1659, he was elected MP for Aylesbury in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He died at the age of 69 in October 1701.[3]