Colonel
Thomas
Wogan
Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of John Wogan
and Jane (Colclough) Wogan
Brother of
John Wogan and Martha (Wogan) Lloyd
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died after
after about age 46
[location unknown]
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Biography
Thomas Wogan was a younger son of John Wogan, MP for Pembrokeshire. In 1640, John Wogan was elected to the Long Parliament and took the side of Parliament, and his son Thomas also took this allegiance. [1] Perhaps two years after his father's death, he became a recruiter member for the borough of Cardigan on 24 August 1646. [2]
At the outset of the Civil War, numerous Wogans joined the armed forces of Parliament, notably in the Regiment of Horse led by Colonel John Meldrum (to be distinguished from Sir John Meldrum) under Colonel William Balfour. [3][4] It is likely that Wogan fought under Meldrum at the 29 March 1644 Battle of Cheriton, at which Meldrum was fatally wounded, after which his regiment was broken up, Wogan remaining as a captain until 1645, when he did not join the New Model Army. He may have been engaged at the time with his seat in Parliament.
In 1648, as Royalist uprisings took place in Pembrokeshire, he joined Colonel Thomas Horton as a captain and took part in the Battle of St Fagans, [5] in which he "carried himself from the first to the last with great resolution, encouraging the soldiers and engaging himself in the head of the service."
Thomas Wogan was raised to the rank of colonel. In 1651, Parliament granted his arrears of pay, [6] and the next year they were settled by a grant of land in Ireland. [7]
In January 1648/9 Thomas Wogan was named as a judge for the High Court of Justice to try King Charles I, and he signed the king's death warrant. [8]
Following the restoration of the monarchy, Thomas Wogan was one of those exempted by name from the provisions of pardon offered by the Crown, as one of those involved in the death of the late king. [9] and on 27 June he surrendered himself. [10] He was sentenced to imprisonment at York Castle, but on 27 July 1664, he escaped with a number of other prisoners. [11]
He was not recaptured.
No evidence that Thomas Wogan had a wife or children has been discovered.
Sources
- ↑ History of Parliament Online: Wogan, John (1588/9-?1644) [1]
- ↑ Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 62/ Wogan, Thomas by Bertha Porter DNB
- ↑ "Surnames beginning 'M'." The Cromwell Association Online Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers . Ed. Stephen K Roberts. British History Online, 2017. British History Online. Web. 23 October 2023. Meldrum
- ↑ "Surnames beginning 'W'." The Cromwell Association Online Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers . Ed. Stephen K Roberts. British History Online, 2017. British History Online. Web. 23 October 2023. Wogan
- ↑ Phillips, John Roland. Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales and the Marches, 1642-1649, vol 2, pp. 365 - 9. Longmans, Green, & Company, 1874. Memoirs
- ↑ "House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 30 April 1651." Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 6, 1648-1651. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1802. 568. British History Online. Web. 23 October 2023. Arrears
- ↑ "House of Commons Journal Volume 7: 13 April 1652." Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 7, 1651-1660. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1802. 118-119. British History Online. Web. 23 October 2023. Petition
- ↑ Rushworth, John. "Proceedings in Parliament: January 1st - February 3rd 1649." Historical Collections of Private Passages of State: Volume 7, 1647-48. London: D Browne, 1721. 1379-1431. British History Online. Web. 23 October 2023. High Court of Justice
- ↑ ["Charles II, 1660: An Act of Free and Generall Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion." Statutes of the Realm: Volume 5, 1628-80. Ed. John Raithby. s.l: Great Britain Record Commission, 1819. 226-234. British History Online. Web. 24 October 2023. Act
- ↑ "House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 27 June 1660." Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 8, 1660-1667. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1802. 75-76. British History Online. Web. 23 October 2023. surrender
- ↑ "A Proclamation For Discovery and Apprehension of several Traiterous Conspirators herein named. " Early English Books Online: Text Creation Partnership. Proclamation
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