This opponent of the Duke of (*) Ormonde and servant of the Duke of Buckingham once demanded to speak with Charles II and, in doing so, won a pardon for his most famous crime, during which he had flattened St. Edward's Crown with a mallet and filed the Sceptre with the Cross in half.
This man's son Holcroft commanded the Duke of Marlborough's artillery at the Battle of Blenheim. Two of this man's allies, John Crookshanks and Andrew McCormack, were killed at the Battle of Rullion Green after fleeing the site of one of this man's actions. He once disguised himself as a parson to befriend Talbot Edwards; that happened several years after he returned from exile under the disguise of a doctor named Aylford. Dissatisfied by the 1662 Act of Settlement, he led a failed conspiracy to storm Dublin Castle and capture the Lord Lieutenant, a man who he later attempted again to abduct and hang at Tyburn. This opponent of the Duke of (*) Ormonde and servant of the Duke of Buckingham once demanded to speak with Charles II and, in doing so, won a pardon for his most famous crime, during which he had flattened St. Edward's Crown with a mallet and filed the Sceptre with the Cross in half. For 10 points, identify this Irish colonel, notorious for his 1671 attempt to steal the English Crown Jewels.
This man's son Holcroft commanded the Duke of Marlborough's artillery at the Battle of Blenheim.
{Thomas Blood}