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William Waller
Sir William Waller (c. 1597 – 19 September 1668) was an English Parliamentary general during the English Civil War. He received his education at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and served in the Venetian army and in the Thirty Years' War. He received a knighthood in 1622 after taking part in Vere's expedition to the Electorate of the Palatinate.
==Origins and Early Commercial Ventures==
William Waller was born in Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, the son of Sir Thomas Waller and his wife Margaret Lennard, the daughter of Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre. His father was a descendant of the Waller family of Groombridge Place, Kent, constable of Dover Castle and member of parliament for Dover. His cousin was the Parliamentarian and regicide Hardress Waller.〔(The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England, Thomas Christopher Banks, London, 1808 )〕 William Waller attended Magdalen College, Oxford, but did not graduate.〔(Vindication of the Character and Conduct of Sir William Waller, Knight, William Waller, Great Britain, 1793 )〕 He succeeded to the estates of his father in 1613 and was knighted on 30 June 1622.〔
As from 1636 Waller owned a quarter-share in the Providence Island Company.〔Ordahl Kupperman, K, Providence Island 1630-1641, "The Other Puritan Colony", 1993, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-55835-2〕
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