Humphrey Mackworth, English politician, lawyer and judge (died 1654)

Humphrey Mackworth (Parliamentarian)

English lawyer and politician, died 1654

Humphrey Mackworth was an English lawyer, judge, and politician of Shropshire landed gentry origins who rose to prominence in the Midlands, the Welsh Marches and Wales during the English Civil War. He was the Parliamentarian military governor of Shrewsbury in the later phases of…