Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English commander and politician (born 1604)

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet

English religious Independent, author, MP and landowner (1604–1661)

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, was an English religious Independent, author, and landowner from Cheshire. He was Member of Parliament for Cheshire at various times between 1628 and 1653, and during the First English Civil War, commander of Parliamentarian forces in the North…