Colonel Thomas HortonAge: 461603–1649
- Name
- Colonel Thomas Horton
- Name prefix
- Colonel
- Given names
- Thomas
- Surname
- Horton
Birth | 1603 |
Birth of a son #1 | Thomas Horton February 13, 1640 (Age 37) |
Military | Colonel 1643 (Age 40)Agency: Parliamentary army during English Civil War |
Military | victorious commander in Battle of St Fagans May 8, 1648 (Age 45)Agency: Parliamentarian army Source: Orders of the Day Citation details: Vol. 30, Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1998. Webb, Dave. "A great victory in Wales, the Battle of St Fagans." Text: On the morning of Monday, 8th May 1648 in the fields around the small village of St Fagans, approximately 1,000 men fought in the largest battle on Welsh soil. ... Horton reported that the men wanted all the honour for so great a victory to be given to God. Parliament ordered that the victory be announced in every Parish church. |
Political office | Commissioner of the High Court of Justice January 1649 (Age 46) Source: House of Commons Journal Citation details: Vol. 8, pub. 1802, pp. 286-287, 01 July 1661 Text: Pains and Penalties against Regicides.
...Thomas Horton...acted and proceeded against the life of our late Sovereign King Charles the First ... Note: Among those who signed the death warrant for King Charles I of England |
Property | October 18, 1649 (Age 46) Source: House of Commons Journal Citation details: Vol. 6, pub. 1802, pp. 309-310 Text: Mr. Garland reports from the Committee the Act for settling upon Colonel Horton his Brigade the lands and Possessions of John Barlow Esquire, formerly given to Major Gen. Langhorne, without any Amendments. |
Death | October 1649 (Age 46) Note: died of Typhus Fever during Cromwell's Irish campaign. |
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Colonel Thomas Horton Birth: 1603 — Gumley, Leicestershire, England Death: October 1649 — Ireland |
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Thomas Horton Birth: February 13, 1640 37 — Liverpool, Mercyside, England |
Military | Orders of the Day Citation details: Vol. 30, Issue 2, Mar/Apr 1998. Webb, Dave. "A great victory in Wales, the Battle of St Fagans." Text: On the morning of Monday, 8th May 1648 in the fields around the small village of St Fagans, approximately 1,000 men fought in the largest battle on Welsh soil. ... Horton reported that the men wanted all the honour for so great a victory to be given to God. Parliament ordered that the victory be announced in every Parish church. |
Political office | House of Commons Journal Citation details: Vol. 8, pub. 1802, pp. 286-287, 01 July 1661 Text: Pains and Penalties against Regicides.
...Thomas Horton...acted and proceeded against the life of our late Sovereign King Charles the First ... |
Property | House of Commons Journal Citation details: Vol. 6, pub. 1802, pp. 309-310 Text: Mr. Garland reports from the Committee the Act for settling upon Colonel Horton his Brigade the lands and Possessions of John Barlow Esquire, formerly given to Major Gen. Langhorne, without any Amendments. |
Political office | Among those who signed the death warrant for King Charles I of England |
Death | died of Typhus Fever during Cromwell's Irish campaign. |