A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Claypole, Elizabeth

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CLAYPOLE, ELIZABETH,

Was the second and favourite daughter of the protector, Oliver Cromwell. She was born at Huntingdon, in 1629, and in 1646 married John Claypole, Esq., of a respectable family in Northamptonshire; who afterwards became master of the horse both to Oliver and his son Richard. Mrs. Claypole was invariably the friend of the oppressed, and exercised her gentle but powerful influence over her father in favour of the suffering royalists. She died at Hampton Court, August 6th., 1658, in the twenty-ninth year of her age.