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Thomas Pride. Thomas Pride was born near Glastonbury in about 1610. He worked as a drayman in London and on the outbreak of the Civil War joined the Parliamentary forces. He was a good soldier and eventually became a colonel in the New Model Army. Pride, who fought at Naseby, was given command of a brigade in Scotland.
Colonel Thomas Pride was a Parliamentarian commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, best known as one of the regicides of Charles I and as the instigator of Pride's Purge.
Thomas Pride was born in Ashcott, Somerset, son of William Pride, a local tradesman. His exact date of birth is unknown but he was apprenticed to a City of London merchant in January 1622 and since the normal age for this was between 14 and 17 years old, he was probably born between 1606 and 1608.
30 de abr. de 2022 · Death. Pride died in 1658 at Nonsuch Palace, an estate which he had bought in Surrey and was appointed Sheriff of Surrey in 1655. After the Restoration of 1660 his body was ordered dug up and suspended on the gallows at Tyburn along with those of Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw, though it is said that the sentence was not carried out ...
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6 de abr. de 2015 · Thomas Pride died in 1658 after a short illness and was buried on or near his Surrey estate. (5) At the Restoration his property was confiscated by the Crown and he was posthumously declared a traitor. His body was ordered to be exhumed and (like those of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw) hanged in chains at Tyburn.
Thomas Pride VC (29 March 1835 – 16 July 1893) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to a serviceman in the British and Commonwealth forces.
