Philip Skippon (c. 1600, West Lexham, Norfolk – c. 20 February 1660) supported the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War as a senior officer...

Sir Philip Skippon, FRS (28 October 1641 – 7 August 1691), of Foulsham, Norfolk, Wrentham and Edwardstone, Suffolk, was an English traveller, writer, diarist...

Model Army, a centralised, professional force. Moderates Fairfax and Philip Skippon were appointed Commander-in-Chief and head of the infantry, respectively;...

general is a now mostly-unused military rank. A prominent example was Philip Skippon in the English New Model Army as organized by Oliver Cromwell. Over...

early microscopical observations of plants (died 1712) October 28 – Sir Philip Skippon, English traveller, naturalist and Member of Parliament (died 1691)...

hedged fields, hills and valleys. At the narrow pass near St. Veep, Philip Skippon, Essex's commander of the infantry, counter-attacked the Royalists and...

Fairfax being appointed Captain General, or commander in chief, and Philip Skippon being appointed Major General of the Foot. The review coincided with...

being unwilling to press their attack against the larger body. Led by Philip Skippon, the Parliamentarian right flank attacked their main objective, nearby...

regiment) Centre (Sergeant Major General Sir Philip Skippon) Eleven pieces of artillery First Line Sir Philip Skippon's Regiment of Foot Sir Hardress Waller's...

and fellow pupils Francis Willughby and Philip Skippon. At the end of April 1664, in Naples, Ray and Skippon took ship for Messina, to continue their...

Preceded by Sir Philip Skippon Sir Robert Kemp, Bt Member of Parliament for Dunwich 1685–1689 With: Thomas Knyvett Succeeded by Sir Philip Skippon Sir Robert...

Richard Savage – An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole Philip Skippon – An Account of a Journey Made Thro ̓ Part of the Low-Countries, Germany...

Jacob Astley, Philip Skippon, Thomas Glemham, George Monck as well as Henry Hexham, the historian of the Dutch wars. Fairfax, Skippon, and Monck, particularly...

citizens would rise in their favour, however their hopes were quashed when Philip Skippon, in charge of the defence swiftly fortified the bridge making it all...

joined the London Trained bands in August 1643 under the command of Philip Skippon and fought at the First Battle of Newbury, where he carried out battlefield...

in his later years from Philip Skippon points to his being the same George Downing, born in 1584, who was uncle both to Skippon and to Calybute Downing...

with cavalry under Oliver Cromwell on the left flank, infantry under Philip Skippon in the centre and cavalry under Sir William Balfour on the right. Maurice's...

Britain Preceded by Sir Gervase Elwes Philip Skippon Member of Parliament for Sudbury 1706–1710 With: Philip Skippon Succeeded by John Mead Lieutenant-General...

Lambert's two deputies. Philip Skippon   Middlesex; including the cities of London and Westminster Sir John Barkstead Skippon was by now elderly, and...

the outset. To offset this, they appointed the moderates Fairfax and Philip Skippon as Commander-in-Chief and head of the infantry respectively, as well...

Three Kingdoms did the same, among them Sir Thomas Fairfax and Sir Philip Skippon. During the capture of Maastricht in 1632, he served in a regiment commanded...

strongly Parliamentarian. His opposite number in the Parliamentarians was Philip Skippon, another Norfolkman.[citation needed] At Gloucester Astley commanded...

Essex's army, with the six regiments of London Trained Bands under Philip Skippon, and other London citizenry, assembled as an army of about 24,000 on...

consult some rare natural history books. In May 1662, Willughby, Ray and Philip Skippon, Ray's student, set out on a second journey through Nantwich and Chester...

investing circle of posts. Essex himself escaped by sea, but Major-General Philip Skippon, his second in command, had to surrender with the whole of the foot...

the mineral fluorite or fluorspar. However, the English naturalist Philip Skippon (1641–1691) stated that one Monsieur Lort, of Montpellier, France, a...

spring of 1663 Ray started together with Willughby and two other pupils (Philip Skippon and Nathaniel Bacon) on a tour through Europe, from which he returned...

1609) February 13 – King Charles X Gustav of Sweden (b. 1622) March – Philip Skippon, English soldier (b. c. 1600) March 5 – Felice Ficherelli, Italian painter...

Leeds Church on 5 September 1679. Meredith married Susanna Skippon daughter of Philip Skippon, of Foulsham, Norfolk, in 1655. His sons William, Richard...

1679 Sir Philip Skippon Whig September 1679 Sir Robert Kemp, Bt Country Party 1685 Roger North Tory Thomas Knyvett Tory 1689 Sir Philip Skippon Whig Sir...