Richard Dowse

Richard Edgcumbe, Knight, courtier and administrator under Henry VII

Dates: died 1489

Cornish courtier and politician who supported Henry Tudor and received grants after the Tudor victory at Bosworth.

Richard Edward Drax

Richard Engaine

Richard English

Richard Evelyn, Esquire of Wotton

Dates: flourished early seventeenth century

Member of the Evelyn family of Wotton who acquired the remaining moiety of Abinger Manor in 1622 and thereby reunited the manor in the Evelyn family.

Richard Fairfax, also styled Richard Malbis, Yorkshire landholder, holder of Acaster Malbis, Copmanthorpe and Scawton

Dates: died 1 November 1401

Richard Fairfax was a member of the Fairfax family who adopted the Malbis name and arms and held the principal Malbis manors at his death.

Richard Fairfax, Guy Fairfax, John Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax and Thomas Wharfe, Yorkshire landholders named as querents in the fine

Dates: fl. 1429

These parties were named together in a 1429 Yorkshire fine concerning the manors of Acastermalbys, Skalton and Copmanthorp.

Richard Farr

Dates: died 1595

Walter Farr's brother, to whom the manor was reportedly secured by a 1574 licence.

Richard Fiennes, De jure 4th Baron Saye and Sele, landowner of Broughton Castle

Dates: 1471–30 September 1501

Richard Fiennes inherited the Broughton estate and the de jure Saye and Sele baronial dignity. He married Elizabeth Croft and had a son Edward, who continued the line.

Richard Fiennes, 7th and 1st Baron Saye and Sele, 7th de jure and 1st confirmed Baron Saye and Sele, knighted 1592, High Sheriff of Oxfordshire 1594, diplomat and court servant

Dates: c.1557–6 February 1613

Richard Fiennes was born at Broughton Castle, knighted by Elizabeth I in 1592 and served as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire. In 1603 James I confirmed the Saye and…

Richard fitz Alan, Earl of Arundel, holder of Acton Round in chief

Dates: 1266–1302

A Fitz Alan magnate who was recorded as holding Acton Round of the Crown in chief in 1284. His estate at Acton Round was surveyed after his death…

Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel

Dates: 1306–1376

English nobleman and son of Edmund FitzAlan whose father's estates were restored to him by Edward III.

Richard FitzNiel

Richard Fitzwilliam

Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam

Dates: 1745-1816

Irish nobleman and art collector who received Abdon under the 1800 partition of the Briggs estates.

Richard Fletcher, Leaseholder of the manor of Athewyk

Dates: fl. 1535

Richard Fletcher was a servant of Sir William FitzWilliam who received a twenty-year lease of the manor of Athewyk in 1535.

Richard Flower

Richard Fowler, Esquire in the 1473 fine

Dates: active 1473

A Buckinghamshire landholder who acquired Stockholt in 1473 and was the father of Sir Richard Fowler.

Richard Fox, Esquire, lawyer, according to heraldic and antiquarian identification

Dates: Died in 1435; exact death date not stated in the cited entry

Richard Fox was an esquire who held a documented one-third share of Bigods, formerly Alfriston, in Great Dunmow. His 1435 inquisition post mortem also records the share's tenure…

Richard Frankland

Dates: died 1587

Frankland landowner who, according to the registry account, united the whole of Aldwark in 1585 and died in 1587.

Richard Franklin

Dates: died 1615

Brother and successor of John Franklin as holder of Adwell Manor.

Richard Geast

Richard George Penn Curzon-Howe, 4th Earl Howe, owner of Acton Manor in the nineteenth-century descent recorded by Copinger

Dates: 1824–1900

British peer and member of the Curzon-Howe family. The cited manorial account identifies him as the 4th Earl Howe in whom the Acton Manor estate was vested after…