Vane, Sir Henry, the Younger
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▪ English administrator
born 1613
died June 14, 1662, London
English Puritan, one of the most capable administrators in Parliament during the Civil Wars between the Parliamentarians and Royalists.
His father, Sir Henry Vane the Elder, was an adviser to King Charles I. Henry the Younger was converted to Puritanism in his youth, and in order to practice his beliefs freely he went to New England in 1635. After serving as governor of Massachusetts for a year (1636–37), he returned to England, where his father obtained for him an appointment as joint treasurer of the navy (1639). Joining the opposition to Charles I in the Long Parliament that convened in November 1640, he supported a bill to abolish the episcopacy, and with his father he helped bring about the impeachment of the King's chief minister, Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford. Consequently, Charles I dismissed him from his treasurership.
Vane was the chief English negotiator of the Solemn League and Covenant with Scotland in 1643, and he succeeded John Pym as leader of the House of Commons in 1643. Although he disapproved of the purge of the Presbyterian members of Parliament by the army (1648), he served in the resulting Rump Parliament. A committed republican, he was a prominent member of the Commonwealth's Council of State from 1649 to 1653, but, adhering to the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, he led the opposition to Cromwell's dissolution of the Rump Parliament in April 1653. Withdrawing from politics, he wrote several books of theological speculation, including the obscure, somewhat mystical Retired Man's Meditations (1655).
In 1656 Vane was briefly imprisoned for publishing a pamphlet attacking Cromwell's Protectorate. He helped the army overthrow Oliver's son, Richard Cromwell, in 1659 and sat in the restored Rump Parliament. Two years after the Restoration of King Charles II (1660) he was executed for his past Parliamentary activities.
Additional Reading
Biographies are John Willcock, Life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger (1913); Violet A. Rowe, Sir Henry Vane the Younger (1970); and J. H. Adamson and H.F. Folland, Sir Harry Vane (1973).
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