George Fleetwood (regicide)
George Fleetwood (1623 – c. 1672) was an English major-general and one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.
Fleetwood was one of the commissioners for the trial of Charles I, 1648–9; member of last Commonwealth Council of State and M.P. for Buckinghamshire, 1653; for Buckingham, 1654; member of Cromwell's Upper House, 1657; joined General George Monck, 1660, and though condemned to death at the Restoration (England), was never executed.
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