Lewis Watson, 1st Baron Rockingham, later Viscount Sondes and Earl of Rockingham

Dates: c. 1655–1724

Grandson of Sir George Sondes who inherited the Sondes estate, including Derbies Court, in 1709 and was created Baron Sondes of Lees Court in 1760 according to the…

Lidulph de Twamlowe

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Thomas Birch-Reynardson, C.M.G., High Sheriff of Oxfordshire

Dates: 1892-1972

A military officer and landed proprietor who succeeded to Adwell by about 1935 and was recorded as lord of the manor until 1959.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Conway Lloyd, knighted 1938, antiquarian

Dates: 1878-1954

A Lloyd family antiquarian who succeeded to the Abercynrig estate, was knighted in 1938 and occupied Abercynrig after Dinas was requisitioned in 1941.

Ligulf, Recorded as lord of Ackton in 1066

Dates: Flourished before and at the Norman Conquest; exact dates unknown

Ligulf was a pre-Conquest landholder recorded in the Domesday-derived summary for Ackton. No fuller secure biography was established in the sources consulted.

Lilleshall Abbey, Augustinian abbey of St Mary, Shropshire.

Dates: Founded in the 12th century; surrendered at the Dissolution in 1538.

An Augustinian abbey in Shropshire whose documented endowments included land in Braunston, Northamptonshire. It held the Braunston interest until the Dissolution, when the estate passed into lay ownership.

Lilleshall Abbey, Augustinian Abbey of Lilleshall

Dates: Founded in the twelfth century; suppressed at the Dissolution in 1538-1539

The Augustinian abbey received the former collegiate estate of St Alkmund and administered Albrightlee as part of its landed possessions and granges.

Lilleshall Abbey, Augustinian Abbey of Lilleshall

Dates: Albrightlee held from c.1145 until the Dissolution in 1538-1539

Lilleshall Abbey held Albrightlee as a landed estate and established a grange there.

Lionel Cecil, Lieutenant-colonel, British Army, country gentleman, resident and landholder associated with Orchardmains.

Dates: 21 March 1853 – 13 January 1901

The youngest son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury by Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West. He served in the British Army and was closely associated with his brother Lord…

Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Dates: 1688–1765

Husband of Grace Sackville, Countess of Middlesex, who held a life interest in her Irish estates under her will after her death in 1763.

Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 7th Earl of Dorset, 1st Duke of Dorset

Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, Baron Cranfield, Lord Treasurer of England

Dates: 1575–1645

English merchant, financier and statesman who acquired Stratford-upon-Avon from Sir Arthur Ingram and became Earl of Middlesex in 1622.

Lionel de Welles, Lord Welles, as described in the Faxton record

Dates: 15th century

The grandson to whom Lord Welles settled the Faxton lordship; he succeeded as lord of the manor in 1421.

Lionel Robinson

Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Earl of Dysart, Scottish peer and landowner

Dates: 1717-1799

Lionel Tollemache was a Scottish peer and member of the Tollemache family, whose estates included substantial property in Suffolk and elsewhere.

Lionel Topham, Of Agglethorpe

Dates: active 1656-1677

Topham landholder and son and heir of Francis Topham; he made a conveyance concerning the three manors in 1677.

Littleton Powell

Llantarnam Abbey, Cistercian abbey

Dates: Active as a Cistercian abbey until its dissolution in 1536

Cistercian religious house in Monmouthshire. It held the medieval lordship and associated granges of Abercarn before the Dissolution.

Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Gwynedd, Prince of Wales

Dates: c. 1173–1240

Welsh ruler commonly known as Llywelyn the Great, husband of Joan, an illegitimate daughter of King John.

Lora Moraunt

Dates: fl. medieval period

Lord Calthorpe, Lord of the manor of Acle, Calthorpe family title

The nineteenth-century directory uses the territorial designation Lord Calthorpe for the principal owner and lord of Acle manor. The exact individual intended by the directory and the precise…

Lord Clinton, Baron Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, Lord High Admiral of England, Lord Clinton and Saye, Lord High Admiral

Dates: late 18th century association; exact identity and dates not established by the source used

The noble estate holder identified in the local archaeological summary as having held the later Lower Alfardisworthy property in the late eighteenth century.

Lieutenant Lord Francis Horace Pierrepont Cecil, Courtesy Lord as younger son of a marquess, Royal Navy, associated with Stocken Hall, Rutland.

Dates: 5 July 1851 – 23 June 1889

Second son of William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter, and Lady Georgina Sophia Pakenham. He entered the Royal Navy, became lieutenant, and married Edith Brooks, daughter of…

Lord Gage, lord of Alciston Manor in 1867

Dates: Identified as lord of Alciston Manor in 1867; individual identity not specified by the directory

The 1867 directory records Lord Gage as the principal landowner and lord of Alciston Manor. Because the directory does not state the personal name or ordinal of the…