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Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke
Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, was an English Puritan nobleman and Parliamentarian. With Viscount Saye and Sele and others he obtained the Warwick Patent in 1632 for land on the Connecticut River, where the Saybrook Colony, named after the two lords, was founded in 1635. In the English Civil War he commanded Parliamentary forces and was shot dead while besieging the cathedral close at Lichfield in 1643.
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