Postwar Career and Death
In 1654 he bought Osterley Park.
In the latter year Waller worked actively in promoting the final negotiations for the restoration of Charles II and reappeared in the House of Commons. He sat in the Convention Parliament, but soon retired from political life. He died on 19 September 1668.
He had married twice; firstly Jane Reynell, who died in 1633 after giving birth to a son and daughter and secondly Anne Finch, daughter of Thomas Finch, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea with whom he had four children. His son Sir William Waller also became MP for Westminster in 1680.
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