born , Somerset?, Eng.
died Oct. 23, 1658, Worcester House, Surrey
English soldier.
Joining the Parliamentary army in the English Civil Wars , he commanded a regiment in the Battle of Oliver Cromwell and helped rout the invading Scots at Preston (1648). When the army, dominated by the Independents, occupied London later that year, Pride arrested or expelled about 140 Presbyterian members from the House of Commons ("Pride's Purge"). He was a member of the commission that tried King {{link=Charles">Charles I .