Samuel Luke

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Life

Luke was born 21 March 1603 and baptised at six days old in Southill, Bedfordshire.^[1] He was the son of Sir Oliver Luke Template:Post-nominals and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Valentine Knightley of Fawsley, Northants. He attended Eton from 1617 to 1619 and travelled abroad in 1623.Template:Sfn He was knighted on 20 July 1624. In April 1640, Luke was elected Member of Parliament for Bedford in the Short Parliament and was re-elected for the Long Parliament in November 1640.Template:Sfn In the latter election he is known to have had the support of much of John Bunyan's future congregation.Template:Sfn

Luke was governor of the Parliamentary outpost in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire from late 1642 until June 1644 during the English Civil War Template:Sfn During the war he was also Scoutmaster to the Earl of Essex.Template:Sfn^{[lower-alpha 1]} He subscribed to the Solemn League and Covenant and in 1648 was secluded from the Long Parliament under Pride's Purge.Template:Sfn

Luke inherited the family estate on the death of his father in 1651.Template:Sfn In April 1660, he was re-elected MP for Bedford in the Convention Parliament.Template:Sfn He died in 1670 and was buried on 30 August in Cople, Bedfordshire.Template:Sfn

It is thought that Sir Samuel Luke was the basis for the title character of the satirical heroic poem Hudibras (1662) by Samuel Butler.Template:Sfn

On 2 February 1624, Luke married Elizabeth, daughter of William Freeman, haberdasher and merchant, of London.Template:Sfn

↑ William Everard, who went on to be a leader of the Diggers, was one of Luke's scouts.

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