Other candidates whom her family pressed her to marry included Sir Thomas Osborne
(a cousin), Henry Cromwell
, and Sir Justinian Isham
, a widower with children, a middle-aged and publicly distinguished figure (brother of...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth Isham
Their brother, later Sir Justinian Isham
(1611-75), became a royalist during the Civil War and a founder member of the Royal Society
. He married in 1634, and his wife, Jane, had five babies (all...
