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Robert Stafford, Lessee of Alderton
Dates: Active 16th century
The source consulted provides no reliable biography beyond Robert Stafford's identification as lessee of Alderton by 1567.
View historical person →Robert Staunton, Esquire
Acquired Robert Markham's lands in East Markham by sale in 1574 and was followed in possession by his son William.
View historical person →Robert Studley Vidal, Barrister, antiquary, legal writer and translator.
Dates: 1770-21 November 1841
Robert Studley Vidal was an English barrister, antiquary, legal writer and translator. He lived at Cornborough near Bideford, Devon, and died there on 21 November 1841. He founded…
View historical person →Robert Sutton of Aram, Esquire of Aram, Nottinghamshire, later Earl of Lexington according to local historical tradition
Dates: Seventeenth century; held Alfreton from 1618 to 1629.
A Sutton landholder who purchased Alfreton from the Zouches in 1618 and sold it to Anthony Morewood in 1629.
View historical person →Robert Tatton, Esquire of Withenshaw
Dates: Active in the mid-sixteenth century
Cheshire landholder who received a long lease of Aldford and associated manors from Edmund Peckham and participated in several assignments and releases in 1557.
View historical person →Robert Tey, Esquire, lord of Aldham
Dates: fl. 1464
A fifteenth-century member of the Tey family recorded jointly with Elizabeth as holder of Aldham Hall in 1464.
View historical person →Robert Thornton of East Newton, lord of East Newton
Dates: lord of East Newton in 1418
View historical person →Robert Tomlins, Holder of Hansted Manor in Adstock, lord of a manor exercising court baron jurisdiction
Dates: Holder from 1575; recorded holding courts in 1586, 1595, 1601 and 1606
Robert Tomlins acquired Hansted Manor in Adstock in 1575 and exercised manorial jurisdiction there through court baron sessions recorded between 1586 and 1606.
View historical person →Robert Tyrel
Dates: fl. 1241
A medieval member of the Tyrel or Tirel family recorded as holding Alfardisworthy in 1241.
View historical person →Robert Vernon, Holder of the Vernon portion of Adstock
Dates: Active in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century
Robert Vernon was William Vernon's half-brother and received the Vernon interest in Adstock, subject to rights retained by William.
View historical person →Robert Villiers, styled 3rd Viscount Purbeck, Styled Viscount Purbeck, claimant to the barony and viscountcy of Purbeck, no legally recognized peerage succession established, Claimant or styled Viscount Purbeck, military commander during the Civil War and Commonwealth, Member of Parliament for Westbury and later Malmesbury, later associated with the Fifth Monarchy movement., Styled 2nd Viscount Purbeck after the death of John Villiers in 1658, never securely admitted to the peerage. Member of Parliament for Westbury in 1659 and Malmesbury in 1660, Royalist colonel and governor of Oswestry in 1643–1644, later associated with Parliament and the Protectorate., Styled 3rd Viscount Purbeck and Baron Villiers of Stoke, never received a writ of summons.
Dates: 14 March 1656/7–April 1684; some later accounts report his death as 1685
Robert was the elder surviving son of Robert Danvers alias Wright, Howard and Villiers and Elizabeth Danvers, heiress of Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey. After his father's death…
View historical person →Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford
English peer and son of Sir Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister. He married Margaret, Baroness Clinton and Saye, whose inheritance is associated in the record with…
View historical person →Robert Warburton
Dates: Flourished in 3 Henry IV (1401-1402)
Cheshire landholder recorded in the Dunham-Massy rental as holding one moiety of Acton, the historical name for Agden.
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