Lord Protector
Britishnoun
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Or maybe he was a later creation, designed to mock the 17th-century Lord Protector of England, the admired/loathed Oliver Cromwell, as the Victorians speculated.
From Washington Post • May 16, 2021
A Vulcan conservative, he revered England's iron-fisted 17th-century Puritan "Lord Protector" Oliver Cromwell but also John Milton, an enigmatic diplomatic aide and chronicler whose work prefigured Hill's.
From Salon • May 8, 2021
Oliver Cromwell, increasingly frustrated with parliament, also led an armed force into the legislature, dissolved it and ruled as Lord Protector until his death in 1658.
From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2019
Gabriel Heaton of Sotheby's says the body of the Lord Protector lay in a double coffin.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2014
From 1649 to 1660, England had no King and was governed by Parliament until 1653 and by Cromwell as Lord Protector from then until his death in 1658.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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