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Mabel Harington, Court-connected gentlewoman, wife of Sir Andrew Noel of Dalby and Brooke
Dates: died 1603
Sixth daughter of Sir James Harington of Exton and Lucy Sidney. Her marriage to Sir Andrew Noel connected the Dalby-Brooke Noel estate family with the Haringtons of Exton…
View historical person →Mabel Wandsworth
Dates: flourished in the fourteenth century
Widow and devisee of William de Wandsworth, later remarried to Richard Ryner. With Ryner she conveyed the East Peckham manors to John Mew.
View historical person →Magdalene College, Cambridge, College and institutional landholder
Dates: Founded 1428; incorporated as a college of the University of Cambridge in the medieval period
Magdalene College, Cambridge, received the Manor House of Alkborough and associated properties by a grant dated 1 March 1625 and continued to administer Alkborough rents and leases recorded…
View historical person →Major Frank Robertson Griggs, lord of Alderwasley Manor from 1930 according to the cited catalogue
Dates: Active as owner of Alderwasley from 1930; reported retaining the lordship in 1941
Major Frank Robertson Griggs acquired the Alderwasley Hall estate and manor in 1930 and was reported in the cited Derbyshire sources to retain the lordship in 1941.
View historical person →Major General Goulburn, later lord of the manor
Dates: died before the 1981 freehold sale; exact dates and full name not established in the source used
The later lord of the manor associated with More Place and the Goulburn estate is identified by Surrey County Council as Major General Goulburn. The source states that…
View historical person →Major Walter H. Rawnsley
Dates: Active by 1914; other dates not established in the sources reviewed
Walter H. Rawnsley rented Well Hall for several years before purchasing Well in 1914.
View historical person →Manasseh the cook, purchaser named in the Domesday-related account
Dates: Active in the late 11th century; exact dates unknown
A Domesday-era individual identified by the occupational byname 'the cook'. He is associated in the cited analysis with the purchase of the Bletchingdon holding later called Adderbury's Manor,…
View historical person →Manasser Biset, Royal dapifer or steward under Henry II, Royal dapifer (steward), holder of the Biset barony of Kidderminster
Dates: fl. 12th century
Twelfth-century royal officer to whom Henry II alienated the Kidderminster lordship between 1156 and 1162.
View historical person →Manor of Friston, Manor to which Boville's was annexed in 1618.
Dates: institutional manor; annexation recorded in 1618
The Manor of Friston is identified in the parish-history source as the receiving manor in the 1618 annexation of Boville's.
View historical person →Margaret Audley, Lady Dudley, Duchess of Norfolk by marriage
Dates: 16th century; died before 1564
Daughter and heiress of Thomas Audley, Baron Audley of Walden. She inherited his Denham and Essex properties, first married Lord Henry Dudley, and married Thomas Howard, Duke of…
View historical person →Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII, Countess of Richmond and Derby
Dates: 1443–1509
English noblewoman and mother of Henry VII. The supplied record states that she received New Hutton after the death of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and that her…
View historical person →Margaret Bernard, Widow and interim holder or life-interest holder in the Abington descent
Dates: Relevant Abington interest from 1485 to 1496
The widow identified in the published Abington descent between the fifteenth-century Bernard holders.
View historical person →Margaret Bourchier
Daughter and heir of Ralph Bourchier. She inherited Barforth in 1768 and held it with her husband Giles Earle before their sale of the manor to Francis Fawkes.
View historical person →Margaret Cecil Hamilton, Viscountess Southwell of Castle Mattress from 18 July 1776 by her husband's elevation, heiress and coheiress of Castle Hamilton property
Dates: died 18 July 1802; married 18 June 1741
Daughter and coheiress of Arthur Cecil Hamilton of Castle Hamilton, County Cavan, and Anne Connor, daughter and heir of Thomas Connor of Dublin. She married Thomas George Southwell…
View historical person →Margaret Chaworth, later Vernon and Talbot, Holder of Aldbury
Dates: active 1485-after 1493
Widow of Thomas Chaworth who retained the manor after his death and later married Ralph Vernon and a Talbot.
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