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Philip Honywood, Lieutenant-General in the British Army
Dates: 18th century–1814
Philip Honywood was a later member of the Honywood family and served as a British Army lieutenant-general, distinguishing himself during the Napoleonic Wars.
View historical person →Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman, Roman Catholic martyr, prisoner in the Tower of London
Dates: 1557–1595
English nobleman and father of Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel. He was married to Anne Dacre, through whom the Dufton descent passed in the registry account.
View historical person →Philip Jermyn
Dates: flourished in the 17th century
Philip Jermyn purchased Aldsworth from Francis Dawtrey and John Stanley in 1633.
View historical person →Philip John Miles, Bristol merchant, banker and landowner, owner of the Abbots Leigh estate
Dates: 1773–1845
Bristol merchant and banker who acquired the Abbots Leigh estate in 1811 and commissioned Leigh Court, the grand country house that replaced the earlier Norton manor complex.
View historical person →Philip Tilney, Esquire of Shelley, Suffolk
Dates: Died 13 March 1602
Philip Tilney was a Suffolk landowner associated with Shelley and other estates. He is directly documented as granting an annuity issuing from the manor of Aldham near Hadleigh,…
View historical person →Pierce Galliard, Of Bury Hall, Middlesex, holder of Abney Manor
Dates: Died 1789
Pierce Galliard inherited Abney after the death of Ellen Bradshaw and held it until his death in 1789.
View historical person →Pierrepont descendants, Members of the Pierrepont family, later associated with the Manvers estate.
Dates: Post-1598 descent; exact individuals and dates not established in the consulted sources.
The Pierrepont family was the principal landholding family associated with Holme Pierrepont and the connected Adbolton estate from the late sixteenth century onward. The available sources do not…
View historical person →Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, favourite and courtier of Edward II
Dates: c.1284–1312
A Gascon nobleman and favourite of King Edward II of England.
View historical person →Pigott family of Abington Pigotts
Dates: Documented at Abington near Shingay from the early fifteenth century; later family descent extends into the nineteenth century.
A branch of the Pigott family established an estate at Abington near Shingay in the early fifteenth century. The estate gave rise to the later place-name Abington Pigotts.
View historical person →Powell family of Nanteos, Lords of the manor of Aberystwyth, associated with the Nanteos estate and lordship of Llanbadarn Fawr
Dates: Documented as the relevant lordly family from the early eighteenth century; the precise acquisition date after 1660 is unresolved
The Powell family became the principal landed family of the Nanteos estate in Cardiganshire. Their archival records include direct evidence of their lordship and legal interest in Aberystwyth…
View historical person →Prior and convent of Christ Church, Canterbury
Dates: Institutional body; priory dissolved in 1539
The Benedictine cathedral priory at Canterbury held extensive ecclesiastical estates, including Agney or Aghne Court according to Hasted, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
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