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Peter Wentworth

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Peter Wentworth

Puritan leader in the Parliament of England

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About Peter Wentworth

Peter Wentworth was a prominent Puritan leader in the Parliament of England. He was the elder brother of Paul Wentworth and entered as member for Barnstaple in 1571. He later sat for the Cornish borough of Tregony in 1578 and for the town of Northampton in the parliaments of 1586–7, 1589, and 1593. Wentworth was the chief critic of Queen Elizabeth I, and Wentworth's 1576 Parliament address has been regarded as the sign of a new era in English Parliament politicking. Recorded speeches and parliament sessions, jotted in the diaries of MPs like those of Thomas Cromwell, began to proliferate around this time, when public interest embraced political affairs and when issues such as freedom of speech took root in parliamentary politics. For these reasons, Wentworth is often regarded as the first celebrated English parliamentarian.

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politician

Position held

Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1571 Parliament, Member of the 1572-83 Parliament, Member of the 1586-87 Parliament

Citizenship

Kingdom of England

Born

1524

Died

1597

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