Person    | Male  Born 1610  Died 19/8/1651

Col. Edward Popham

Already a naval lieutenant, he, with his two brothers, supported Cromwell and served as a colonel in the new Model Army. MP for Minehead. Died Dover and was buried Westminster Abbey, where there is still a grand marble monument but without inscription.

When Charles II was restored to the throne he ordered the disinterment of the bodies of Oliver Cromwell and his supporters, including Popham, and their reburial in an unmarked pit in St Margaret's churchyard, Westminster. However Edward's brother, Alexander, an MP, was allowed to take Edward's body for a respectful burial elsewhere. It was also at this time that the monument was moved from the prestigious Henry VII's chapel to the lesser chapel of St. John the Baptist and the inscription panel replaced with a blank.

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