page_title: Michael Noble (Parliamentarian)
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Noble (Parliamentarian) / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: The nave of Lichfield Cathedral (taken by Excalibur, 29th Dec 2007)
context_page_description: Michael Noble was an English puritan who represented Lichfield during the Long Parliament and sided with Parliament during the English Civil War.
context_section_description: Noble was the son of Edward Noble and Isabell Lowe, daughter of Humfrey Lowe of Halesowen and his wife Joane Cooke. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford matriculating aged 16 on 15 May 1607. He was probably an attorney and was elected coroner for Lichfield in 1625. He was described as a gentleman of the Close of the Cathedral when in 1631 he compounded for not accepting a knighthood by paying £10. By 1637 he was Town Clerk.
  In 1640, Noble was elected to the Long Parliament as one of the two burgesses for Lichfield city. On 6 June 1643 he took the Parliamentary oath and covenant, and on 25 September subscribed to The Solemn League and Covenant. During 1643 he was on the Assessment Commission for Staffordshire, and on the Sequestration Committee for the County and City of Lichfield. In 1644 he was on the Commission in the Ordinance for Assessment of East and West, and on  11 April that year was on the Grocer's Hall Committee of Accounts.
  Noble was on the Committee of the House on the Self-denying Ordinance on 24 March 1645 and was one of 68 members to whom the £4 allowance per week was ordered on 3 June 1645. He became Deputy Lieutenant for Staffordshire on 23 August 1645. On 16 September 1645 he was on the Committee to prepare the Ordnance for the disposal of the Bishop of Lichfield's estates.
  Noble was on the Committee for settling a preaching ministry on 7 April 1646. However he appears to have fallen sick, and was excused the call of the House in  1646 and 1647 and was not excluded in Pride's Purge on 6 December 1648.  He died in February 1649 and was buried in Lichfield Cathedral.
caption: Lichfield Cathedral
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