Mayor Gunnis of Bristol

Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, Corporate grantee and trustee of the Edward VI hospital endowment

Dates: Trustee from 1553

The City of London received the Hastingleigh and Aldelose endowment in 1553 to support the hospitals, including St Thomas's Hospital.

Meadow Taylor of Diss

Meliora Stanley

Meres family, Lords of Hiptoft Hall or Toop's Manor

Dates: 15th to 18th centuries in the local record

A prominent Lincolnshire landholding family associated by direct legal evidence and local historical records with Hiptoft Hall in Algarkirk from the 15th century into the 18th century.

Merton Priory, Augustinian priory of St Mary

Dates: Founded in the early twelfth century; surrendered to the Crown in 1538

Merton Priory was an Augustinian religious house founded at Merton in Surrey. It acquired estates in several counties, including the Alconbury rectory estate, and was surrendered to the…

Michael Blundell

Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh, Lord Chancellor of Ireland

Dates: c. 1609–1702

Irish Anglican archbishop and senior office-holder who became Archbishop of Armagh and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. The supplied Monkstown account states that he acquired Monkstown or associated lands…

Michael de Furneaux

Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk, Lord Chancellor of England, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, Chancellor of England

Dates: c. 1331–1389

English merchant, administrator and courtier who served Richard II as Lord Chancellor and was created Earl of Suffolk in 1385. He later fled England and died in exile.

Michael Hills

Michael Honywood, Dean of Lincoln, appointed 1660

Dates: 1597–1681

Michael Honywood was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, returned from exile in Holland at the Restoration, and became Dean of Lincoln in 1660. He supervised major restoration work…

Michael Lewis of Collyweston

Michael Pemberton, Gentleman, described in later sources as a major in the service of Charles I

Dates: recorded from 1595; died before or by 1638 probate of his 1624 will

Michael Pemberton of Aislaby was a member of the Pemberton family and is recorded as holding the Aislaby estate. A later account identifies him as a major in…

Michael Pippwell

Michael Sondes, Knight, Member of Parliament for Maidstone and Queenborough

Dates: died 1617

Kentish landowner who acquired Derbies Court by sale from Edward Aucher. He represented Maidstone and later Queenborough in Parliament between 1586 and 1604.

Michael Stanhope, Esquire, Groom of the Privy Chamber

Dates: fl. late 16th–early 17th century

Royal servant and joint grantee of Egmanton under Queen Elizabeth I's grant of 27 June 1600.

Milburn, Fowberry Tower, Northumberland, and

Miles Crispin, Norman baron, castellan of Wallingford

Dates: died 1107

A Norman baron who held extensive lands in Oxfordshire and elsewhere and was associated with Wallingford Castle.

Miles Neyrnut

Miles Thomas Stapleton, 8th Baron Beaumont, summoned to the House of Lords by writ in 1840

Dates: c.1800–1854

English peer who succeeded to the Beaumont barony when it was called out of abeyance and was recorded as lord of Carlton and Camblesforth by 1821.

Milicent de Stafford, Stafford heiress

Dates: fl. late 12th century

Sister and successor of Robert de Stafford; she married Hervey Bagot.

Molyneux family of Sefton, later Viscounts and Earls of Sefton, later Viscounts Molyneux and Earls of Sefton

Dates: sixteenth to twentieth centuries

The Molyneux family was a major landowning family in the Sefton and Aintree area. Its Aintree estate is documented on a 1769 plan, and local historical material states…

Montagu descendants