Beake, Robert, army officer, businessman and politician

1642 member of the Coventry Drapers' Company; 1642-1951 served in the English Civil War with the parliamentary army; 1642 lieutenant; 1645 captain; 1650 major; 1650 governor of Coventry; 1650-1651 sheriff of Warwickshire; 1650-1652 assessment commissioner for Warwickshire; 1652-1655 councillor, Coventry; 1654 ejector for Warwickshire; 1654 Member of Parliament for Coventry; 1655-1656 mayor, Coventry; 1655-1662 alderman, Coventry; 1656 commissioner for securing the peace of the Commonwealth and Member of Parliament for Coventry; 1656-1657 master, the Coventry Drapers' Company; 1656-1659 commissioner for the admiralty; 1656-1660 Justice of the Peace, Warwickshire; 1657 and 1660 assessment commissioner for Warwickshire and Coventry; 1659 (March-July) Member of Parliament for Coventry; 1660 commissioner for militia, Warwickshire and Coventry, captain-lieutenant of militia horse, Warwickshire; 1660 (March) Member of Parliament for Coventry; 1660-1663 and 1673-1680 assessment commissioner for Coventry; 1669 lay leader, the Great Conventicle at Leather Hall; 1679 Member of Parliament for Coventry (first Exclusion Parliament); 1688 local commissioner for inquiry into recusant fines; 1701-1702 master, the Coventry Drapers' Company; 1708 died.

Epithet: army officer, businessman and politician

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