John Barkstead (died 1662) was an English major general and a regicide of King Charles I of England.[2]
Barkstead was a goldsmith in London; captain of parliamentary infantry under Colonel Venn; governor of Reading, 1645: commanded regiment at siege of Colchester; one of the king's judges, 1648; governor of Yarmouth, 1649, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 1652; M.P. for Colchester, 1654, and Middlesex, 1656; knighted, 1656: escaped to continent, 1660; arrested, 1662; brought to England and executed.[3]
- ^ Caulfield, op. cit.
- ^ His name is spelt Barstead in contemporary Parliamentary records (see Act of Free and Generall Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion)
- ^ Lee 1903, p. 62.