Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet, of London

Sir Richard Browne (c. 1602 – 24 September 1669) was a merchant and MP from London who became a Major general in the Parliamentarian army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. A moderate Presbyterian, after victory in the First English Civil War Browne supported a negotiated settlement in which Charles I retained his throne. As a result, he fell out with radicals such as Oliver Cromwell, and was excluded from Parliament by Pride’s Purge in December 1648.
He opposed The Protectorate, spending nearly five years in prison, and was suspected of involvement in the Royalist Booth’s Uprising. After the Stuart Restoration in 1660, he became Lord Mayor of London and MP for Ludgershall.