John Thurloe was an English politician who served as secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell and held the position of Postmaster General between 1655 and 1660.
12 Facts About John Thurloe
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John Thurloe was from Great Milton in Oxfordshire and of Lincoln's Inn,.
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John Thurloe's father was Rev Thomas Thurloe, Rector of Abbess Roding.
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In 1647 John Thurloe was admitted to Lincoln's Inn as a member.
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John Thurloe remained on the sidelines during the English Civil War but after the accession of Oliver Cromwell, became part of his government.
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John Thurloe's service broke the Sealed Knot, a secret society of Royalists and uncovered various other plots against the Protectorate.
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John Thurloe supported the idea that Cromwell should adopt a royal title.
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In 1657 John Thurloe became a member of Cromwell's second council, as well as governor of the London Charterhouse school, and in 1658 he became chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
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John Thurloe retired from public life but served as a behind-the-scenes authority on foreign affairs and wrote informative papers for Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, but he did not become part of any new government.
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John Thurloe's correspondence is kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford and in the British Museum.
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John Thurloe held the rectory of Whittlesey St Mary's, in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire.
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John Thurloe purchased the Wisbech Castle estate, sold off some of the land, cleared the remains of the bishop's palace and built and furnished a mansion just before the Restoration of the Monarchy, after which it was restored to the Bishop of Ely.