Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth
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Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth, KB, PC (bapt. 2 February 1612–1 March 1665) was an English soldier and politician.
Wentworth was the eldest son of the 1st Earl of Cleveland and his first wife, Anne. From 1639-40, he fought against the Scots in the Bishops' Wars and was briefly MP for Bedfordshire in 1640 before he was called up to the House of Lords, in his father's barony of Wentworth in November of that year.
During the English Civil War, Wentworth was the Sergeant-Major-General of Horse and commanded the Prince of Wales's Regiment of Horse, seeing action at Tipton Green, Cropredy Bridge, Langport, Worcester and possibly at the Second Battle of Newbury. He fought most battles alongside his father and when the Royalists were defeated, Lord Wentworth raised a regiment (which later became the Grenadier Guards) at Bruges as a bodyguard to the exiled Charles II.
Lord Wentworth predeceased his father and so did not inherit the latter's earldom and his barony passed to his only child, Henrietta, who later became a mistress to the king's illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth.
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| Preceded by: New regiment | Colonel of Lord Wentworth's Regiment 1656–1660 | Succeeded by: Hon. John Russell |
| Peerage of England | ||
| Preceded by: Thomas Wentworth | Baron Wentworth (writ of acceleration) 1640–1665 | Succeeded by: Henrietta Wentworth |
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