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About John Arundell
John Arundell, Esquire, of Trerice in Cornwall, later given the epithet "Jack for the King", was a member of an ancient Cornish gentry family, who as a Royalist during the English Civil War served King Charles I as Governor of Pendennis Castle, Falmouth. In 1646 he retained the castle in a heroic manner during a five-month-long siege by Fairfax, during which his forces were reduced by hunger to eating their horses, and finally achieved an honourable surrender
Everything about John Arundell →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1597-98 Parliament, Member of the 1601 Parliament, Member of the 1621-22 Parliament
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- 1576
- Died
- December 5, 1654