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Lord Henry Paulet, of Amport, Knight of the Bath, Member of Parliament for Andover in 1626, courtier, Lord of the Manor of Amport
Dates: c.1602–1672
Lord Henry Paulet was a younger son of William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester, and Lady Lucy Cecil. He acquired Amport after the Civil War, purchasing the estate…
View historical person →Lord Hylton
Dates: 19th century; exact identity and dates not fully specified in the cited passage
Member of the Jolliffe family and identified by the Victoria County History as owner of Albury after its union with Merstham Manor. The consulted passage does not give…
View historical person →Lord Lumley
Dates: flourished in the 17th century
Lord Lumley acquired Aldsworth and Lordington from Alexander Jermyn in 1661 and brought Aldsworth into the Lumley-Westbourne descent.
View historical person →Lord Michael Hugh Cecil, Courtesy style Lord, Grenadier Guards officer from 1980, resident at Hatfield House in the early twenty-first century.
Dates: Born 23 March 1960
Younger son of the 6th Marquess of Salisbury and brother of Lord Richard Valentine Gascoyne-Cecil. He married Camilla Julia Scott in 1986 and represents a continuing male-line collateral…
View historical person →Lord Richard Hugh Vere Gascoyne-Cecil, Courtesy style Lord as a younger son of a marquess, Sergeant trainee pilot, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Dates: 31 January 1924–12 August 1944
Youngest son of the 5th Marquess of Salisbury. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, and died accidentally in Britain on 12 August 1944 while serving…
View historical person →Lord Richard Valentine Gascoyne-Cecil, Courtesy style Lord as a younger son of a marquess, Captain in the Grenadier Guards, freelance journalist, mentioned in despatches., Grenadier Guards officer, Conservative political worker
Dates: 26 January 1948–20 April 1978
English soldier, Conservative political activist and freelance journalist. He was killed in Rhodesia on 20 April 1978 while covering the Rhodesian Bush War. His death forms an important…
View historical person →Lord Russell, exact individual not identified by the source
The cited local authority source names Lord Russell as the recipient of the Abbots Worthy land after its Wriothesley ownership but does not identify the precise individual or…
View historical person →Lord Thomas Cecil, Styled Lord Thomas Cecil, Member of Parliament for Stamford, 1818–1832, served in the Royal Navy and later in the British Army, lieutenant-colonel in the Coldstream Guards.
Dates: 1 January 1797–29 November 1873
Lord Thomas Cecil was the youngest son of Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter, by his second wife Sarah Hoggins. He represented Stamford in the House of Commons…
View historical person →Lord Tollemache
Dates: 19th century; individual not conclusively identified from the available source
The source identifies the holder only by the territorial or courtesy style Lord Tollemache and does not provide enough information to determine the individual with confidence.
View historical person →Lords of Hellesby
Dates: Medieval period; individual dates not established by the source used
The Hellesby lords are presented in the local account as the paramount lords connected with Acton in 1253. The source does not identify a single individual for this…
View historical person →Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham, son-in-law of George Sondes
Dates: died 1709
French-born nobleman and son-in-law of George Sondes who succeeded to Derbies Court and the Sondes estate by special remainder in 1677. He died childless in 1709.
View historical person →Louisa Drummond Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, holder of Albury Manor
Dates: 1821-1890
Louisa Drummond was the eldest daughter of Henry Drummond. She married Algernon George Percy, Lord Lovaine, in 1845 and became Duchess of Northumberland when he succeeded as sixth…
View historical person →Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, royalist statesman and author
Dates: 1610-1643
Lucius Cary was a prominent English statesman and philosophical writer who supported Charles I. He sold Aldenham Manor in 1642 and was killed at the First Battle of…
View historical person →Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford, daughter of Sir John Harington, Baron Harington of Exton
Dates: 1580–1627
English courtier and patron of the arts, and sister of Sir John Harington, Baron Harington of Exton. The registry record identifies her as inheriting Barrow in 1613 and…
View historical person →Lucy, Countess of Leicester, Lincoln and Chester, Lincoln and Chester in her own right
Dates: Died 1138
Lucy was a major twelfth-century heiress who held the comital titles of Leicester, Lincoln and Chester in her own right. Historic England associates her with the fortified medieval…
View historical person →Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, Earl of March
Dates: 1574-1624
Ludovic Stewart was a Scottish and English courtier and nobleman who held extensive Crown grants under James I and served prominently at the Jacobean court.
View historical person →Mabel Browne
Daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam and Joan Fitzwilliam; wife of Sir Thomas Browne and one of the four equal co-heirs to Bedlow after her parents' deaths.
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