Ludlow, Edmund (c. 1617–1692)

English Parliamentarian and regicide. During the Civil War he fought at Worcester and Edgehill (1642). Elected MP in 1646, he signed Charles I's death warrant (1649). He opposed Cromwell as protector, and retired. In 1659 he became MP for Hindon. At the Restoration (1660) he fled to Switzerland, where he died.

He was born in Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford, and the Inner Temple. He was one of the promoters of Pride's Purge in 1648. In 1651 Ludlow was sent to Ireland as lieutenant-general of horse, and on the death of Ireton, took over the chief command. His memoirs were published (1698–99) and are valuable for their insight into the republican opposition to Cromwell.