Comments on: Charles I and the power of the Crown http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/01/04/charles-i-and-the-power-of-the-crown/ Incisive and topical campaigns and commentary on today's issues and tomorrow's problems Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:05:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sam Hearn http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/01/04/charles-i-and-the-power-of-the-crown/#comment-937 Sam Hearn Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:00:06 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2008/01/04/charles-i-and-the-power-of-the-crown/#comment-937 Good to see John Hampden MP "The Patriot" and his political associates being commemorated by Mr Redwood. Hampden's reputation, huge during his life time, acquired a life of its own in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries the rehabilitation of the reputation of Hampden's cousin, Oliver Cromwell, led to Hampden's significance being down played and ignored. Not many people know that 10 Downing Street actually occupies the site of the orchard of Hampden House, a Jacobean mansion lived in by Hampden's mother, Oliver Cromwell's aunt. This house was demolished by the extremely unpleasant but brilliant Sir George Downing. I wonder if Mr Redwood would support a campaign to rename the street after a genuine political hero and man of great moral and physical courage - John Hampden MP. After all the Scots have named their international football stadium after him - although most have not got a clue who he is/was or even that he was English! More information as <a href="http://www.johnhampden.org" rel="nofollow">www.johnhampden.org</a> Cllr Sam Hearn Good to see John Hampden MP "The Patriot" and his political associates being commemorated by Mr Redwood.

Hampden's reputation, huge during his life time, acquired a life of its own in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. However in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries the rehabilitation of the reputation of Hampden's cousin, Oliver Cromwell, led to Hampden's significance being down played and ignored.

Not many people know that 10 Downing Street actually occupies the site of the orchard of Hampden House, a Jacobean mansion lived in by Hampden's mother, Oliver Cromwell's aunt. This house was demolished by the extremely unpleasant but brilliant Sir George Downing.

I wonder if Mr Redwood would support a campaign to rename the street after a genuine political hero and man of great moral and physical courage – John Hampden MP. After all the Scots have named their international football stadium after him – although most have not got a clue who he is/was or even that he was English!

More information as http://www.johnhampden.org

Cllr Sam Hearn

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