1st Edition

Colonel Philip Jones, Oliver Cromwell and the British Revolutions in South Wales

By David Farr Copyright 2026
274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

This volume centres on Colonel Philip Jones but touches on others – most notably, Griffith Lloyd and Rowland Dawkins – who were part of his political network. These three men, all from Glamorgan and linked as kin, emerged from lives on the fringes of Welsh gentry status to imprint themselves on the wider world and historical record as part of the military struggle against Charles I and then as... Read more

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Philip Jones: Cromwell’s Ruler of South Wales

2 Philip Jones: Cromwellian Councillor and Courtier

3 Philip Jones: The Abuse of Power?

4 Griffith Lloyd: Cromwell’s Welsh Agent

5 Rowland Dawkins: Cromwell’s Welsh Major-General

6 Philip Jones: After the Restoration

Conclusion: Philip Jones, Cromwell and the British Revolutions in South Wales

Select Bibliography

Index

Biography

David Farr is Deputy Head Academic of Norwich School. He is the author of full-length studies of the Cromwellian military-religious figures, John Lambert (2003), Henry Ireton (2006), Thomas Harrison (2014), Hezekiah Haynes (2020) and the 2022 Brokerage and Networks in London’s Global World: Kinship, Commerce and Communities through the Experience of John Blackwell. His Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643–1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration was published in 2024.