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Oswald Nigel Amherst Cecil, Rear-Admiral, Royal Navy, Commander of the Dartmouth Training Squadron, NATO Commander of the South East Mediterranean, Commander of British Forces and Flag Officer, Malta, Naval Aide-de-Camp to Queen Elizabeth II, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, KBE, CB and KStJ., Companion of the Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man, 1980–1985, Knight of Justice of the Order of St John.
Dates: 11 November 1925 – 10 March 2017
Second son of Commander Henry Mitford Amherst Cecil and Hon. Yvonne Cornwallis, and grandson of Lord William Cecil and Mary, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney. He pursued a…
View historical person →Owen Warner, Trustee and lord of Frimley Manor in 1935
Trustee associated with Frimley Manor who joined Clara Freeman in the 16 October 1935 deed of gift of Frimley Green and related land.
View historical person →Pagan de Chaworth, Lord of Alderton, Chaworth nobleman
Dates: Died late 13th century, date uncertain
Pagan de Chaworth was a thirteenth-century landholder associated with Alderton and Stoke Bruerne. He obtained a market and fair for Alderton in 1278.
View historical person →Paget family, Barons Paget of Beaudesert, later Earls of Uxbridge and Marquesses of Anglesey
Dates: 16th-19th centuries
The Paget family held the former Burton Abbey estates in Staffordshire, including Abbots Bromley and Bromley Hurst, from the sixteenth century and retained substantial associated estates for several…
View historical person →Partheriche family, Lords of Alderminster Manor
Dates: Seventeenth to eighteenth century
Members of the Partheriche family held Alderminster Manor after Edward Partriche and before the death of John Partheriche in 1783.
View historical person →Patrick de Chaworth, Chaworth lord of Alderton, according to the local account
Dates: Active late 13th century
The source identifies Patrick de Chaworth as the brother and successor of Pagan de Chaworth in the Alderton lordship.
View historical person →Patrick Dunbar, 10th Earl of Dunbar, 2nd Earl of March, Scottish nobleman
Dates: died 1369
A Scottish nobleman who alternately supported the English and Scottish crowns during the Anglo-Scottish wars. He was associated with Dunbar Castle, served the Scottish crown, and was later…
View historical person →Paul Beilby Lawley-Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock from 1839, 8th Baronet Lawley from 1851
Dates: 1784-1852
Paul Beilby Lawley-Thompson inherited the Thompson family's Yorkshire estates in 1820, entered Parliament, and was created 1st Baron Wenlock in 1839.
View historical person →Paul Benfield, Esquire
Dates: Not established from the consulted manor source.
Late-eighteenth-century proprietor of Abingdon Court, who received the manor by bequest from Arnold Nesbitt and sold it to the Earl of Carnarvon in 1792.
View historical person →Paul Bush, First Bishop of Bristol, 1542–1558/1559
Dates: c.1490–1558/1559
English Augustinian churchman who became the first Bishop of Bristol after the creation of the diocese in 1542.
View historical person →Paul Docminique
Dates: flourished 1727; death date not established
Purchased Albury Manor from the Southcote family in 1727. The consulted manor sources provide no further biography.
View historical person →Paulet family and Dukes of Bolton, Successive Marquesses of Winchester and Dukes of Bolton
Dates: late seventeenth century to early nineteenth century
The Paulet family continued to hold the Hampshire estate containing Abbotstone through the succession of the Dukes of Bolton. Their ownership is documented at estate level, although the…
View historical person →Penrhyn Estate
Dates: Holding documented from 1863 into 1925
The Penrhyn estate was a major north Wales landed estate that acquired the Bulkeley family's Aber and other Caernarfonshire holdings in 1863.
View historical person →Hon. Percy Charles Wyndham, landowner
Dates: 1757–1833
An English landowner of the Wyndham family and holder of the Egremont estates.
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