Robert Ansty

Robert Archer, Lord of Abney, member of the Archer family of the High Peak

Dates: Flourished 1317

Robert Archer is identified in the Abney manor evidence as lord in 1317 and as a member of a family associated with other High Peak manors.

Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, Baron Cecil of Essendon from 1941, 5th Marquess of Salisbury from 4 April 1947, Knight of the Garter from 1946, Conservative MP for South Dorset, 1929–1941, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1935–1938, Paymaster-General, 1940–1944, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, 1945–1951, Lord Privy Seal, 1951–1952, Leader of the House of Lords, 1951–1957, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1952, Lord President of the Council, 1952–1957.

Dates: 27 August 1893 – 23 February 1972

British Conservative politician and statesman, eldest son and heir of James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he served with…

Robert Arthur Lytton Balfour, 3rd Earl of Balfour, landowner, chairman and managing director of Bruntons (Musselburgh), Scottish public administrator, Grand Master Mason of Scotland.

Dates: 31 December 1902–27 November 1968

Only son of Gerald William Balfour, 2nd Earl, and Lady Elizabeth Edith Bulwer-Lytton. He succeeded his father in 1945, inherited the Whittingehame estate and later restored Whittingehame Tower…

Robert Baard

Dates: Recorded 1294 and 1316

Holder of Albury in 1294 who settled the manor's reversion in 1316 on Geoffrey and Denise de la Lee and their sons.

Robert Bacon, Knight, Knight of the Shire for the Parliaments of 1363 and 1369

Dates: floruit mid-14th century

Husband of Isabella D’Avilers and holder associated with Davillers in Brome.

Robert Bardolf, Holder of an Adstock interest, landowner, Lord of Wereham Hall, member of the Bardolf family

Dates: Died 1305

Robert Bardolf was a medieval landholder whose Adstock property was recorded by 1280. He died in 1305 and was succeeded in this interest by his daughter Avis.

Robert Barton

Robert Belet

Robert Bernard, Holder of Abington through marriage to Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Nicholas Lyllyng

Dates: Active in the early 15th century

A member of the Bernard family who established the family's long association with Abington through marriage to the Lyllyng heiress.

Robert Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, Baron Willoughby de Eresby

Dates: 1582–1642

Robert Bertie was a leading Lincolnshire nobleman and Royalist who held the Willoughby estates, including the Well interest, during the period of the English Civil War.

Robert Bindloss, English landowner, 1st Baronet

Dates: c. 1593-1675

English landowner and member of the Bindloss family, later created a baronet. He is identified in the registry as the recipient of the Threshfield lordship in 1597.

Robert Bindloss of Barwick Hall

Robert Blackburn, Aldcliffe informant and landholder

Dates: flourished 1716-1727

An Aldcliffe resident who informed against the Dalton family after the 1715 rising and received one-fifth of their Aldcliffe estate as a reward. He sold that share to…

Robert Bosville

Robert Bothe (or Booth)

Robert Bothe (or Booth) line

Robert Bourchier, Landholder, father of Robert, 1st Baron Bourchier, Lord Chancellor of England (1340–1341)

Dates: Died 1349

Robert Bourchier was a prominent fourteenth-century Essex landholder and member of the Bourchier family of Halstead and Stanstead. He died during the plague year 1349 and was buried…

Robert Boutevilein, Lord of Cottesbrooke

Dates: died 1314

Robert Boutevilein succeeded William Boutevilein at Cottesbrooke and was killed in Scotland in 1314 while fighting with the Earl of Gloucester.

Robert Brandred

Robert Breton

Dates: fl. later 12th century

Successor of William Breton in the Barton estate; he granted the estate to Walter son of Hugh by knight service.

Robert Bristow, Esquire, member of the Bristow family associated with Alderstone and Broxmore

Dates: 1773-1853

The Robert Bristow associated with the later Alderstone estate and Broxmore House. He demolished the old manor house near Whiteparish church in 1812 and established the larger Broxmore…

Robert Bristow of Micheldever, Esquire, purchaser of Alderstone Manor

Dates: Flourished circa 1725; exact dates unknown

A Hampshire landowner from Micheldever who purchased Alderstone Manor, its estate and great tithes from George Treby about 1725, beginning the Bristow family's documented ownership of the estate.

Robert Brito