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G. Glover, after Edward Bower: John Pym
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John Pym

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J.E. Christopher Hill
Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford, 1965–78. Author of Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution and others.
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Born:
1583/84, Brymore, Somerset, Eng.
Died:
Dec. 8, 1643, London
Title / Office:
Short Parliament (1640-1640)
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John Pym (born 1583/84, Brymore, Somerset, Eng.—died Dec. 8, 1643, London) was a prominent member of the English Parliament (1621–43) and an architect of Parliament’s victory over King Charles I in the first phase (1642–46) of the English Civil Wars. Pym also was largely responsible for the system of taxation that survived in England until the 19th century and for the enduring close relations between the English government and the City of London. Pym was the eldest son of Alexander Pym of Brymore, Somerset, who died when John was a child; his mother married Sir Anthony Rous, a client of ...(100 of 1083 words)

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