3 September 1658 A.D. Death: Oliver Cromwell—Military & Political Leader in English Civil Wars; Lord Protector, 1654-58
3 September 1658 A.D. Death: Oliver Cromwell—Military & Political Leader in English Civil Wars; Lord Protector, 1654-58 Plant, David. “Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658.” BCW Project. N.d. http://bcw-project.org/biography/oliver-cromwell . Accessed 24 Apr 2015. Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1658 Rose from obscurity to become the most successful military and political leader of the Civil Wars. Lord Protector of England from 1654-8, he was offered—and refused—the Crown itself. O liver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon on 25 April 1599 and baptised at the church of St John four days later. He was the second son of the ten children of Robert Cromwell (d.1617) and Elizabeth Steward (d.1654). The family estate derived from Oliver's great-grandfather, Morgan Williams, a brewer from Glamorgan who settled at Putney in London. Williams married Katherine Cromwell, the sister of Thomas Cromwell, who became chancellor to Henry VIII. Through his association with Thomas Cromwell, Morgan Wil...