Robert White

Robert Whittingham

Robert William Evelyn Cecil, 2nd Baron Rockley, 2nd Baron Rockley of Lytchett Heath from 1 April 1941, Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Artillery, wartime Ministry of Supply and Military Government service, director and deputy chairman of several financial and commercial companies., 2nd Baron Rockley from 1 April 1941, Ministry of Supply official, director and deputy chairman of several companies.

Dates: 28 February 1901 – 26 January 1976

Only son of Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley, and Hon. Alicia Margaret Tyssen-Amherst. Educated at Eton, Christ Church Oxford and Yale as a Davidson Scholar. Served in the…

Sir Robert Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby de Broke, Knight, Sheriff of Cornwall, Sheriff of Devon, Knight of the Body, member of the King's Council, Knight of the Garter, Baron Willoughby de Broke from 1491, royal courtier and landed magnate of Broke in Wiltshire.

Dates: died 1502

English nobleman who was confirmed as Lord of Coppenhall in 1483 and died seised of the manor in 1502.

Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke

Dates: fl. 15th century

Robert Willoughby was a fifteenth-century English baron who, through his marriage to Maud, received the Burgh le Marsh manor interest described in the registry narrative. The Willoughby family…

Robert Wilson

Robert Wilton

Robert Wintour, English gentleman, participant in the Gunpowder Plot

Dates: died 1606

Robert Wintour was a Worcestershire gentleman and participant in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. He was executed in 1606 and is associated with Huddington Court.

Robert Woodlyfe

Robert Wroth, Knight, Member of Parliament for Middlesex, forest official in Enfield Chase

English landowner and politician who acquired St Johns in 1597-98 and left it to his eldest son Robert at his death in 1604.

Robert, Bishop of Chester, Domesday tenant-in-chief

Dates: Bishop of Chester in 1086; exact episcopal dates not required for this entry

Robert was the bishop named as tenant-in-chief for Edboldestone in the 1086 Domesday material.

Robert, Count of Mortain, tenant-in-chief under William the Conqueror, half-brother of William the Conqueror, major Norman landholder, Domesday landholder, Earl of Cornwall, Norman magnate and half-brother of William the Conqueror, Norman magnate

Dates: c.1031-1090

A major Norman landholder and half-brother of William the Conqueror who held extensive English estates after the Conquest.

Robert, Lord Carrington

Dates: active about 1800

Peer and estate owner who purchased Stockholt about 1800 and later conveyed it to the Duke of Buckingham.

Robert, Lord Poynings, superior lord of the fee in which Aisholt was held

Dates: died 1446

Robert Poynings was a fifteenth-century English nobleman who held extensive lands and feudal interests in Somerset and elsewhere. The 1435 inquisition identifies Aisholt as held of him.

Robert, son of Matilda

Robert’s granddaughter, Idonea, (perhaps named

Robinson family of Newby and Yorkshire, Yorkshire landed family

Dates: At least early 17th century onward

The Robinson family held a group of Yorkshire manors, including Aldfield, from at least the beginning of the seventeenth century.

Roderick Arthur Francis Balfour, 5th Earl of Balfour, British peer and businessman.

Dates: Born 9 December 1948

Born in London, son of Eustace Balfour and Anne Yule. He succeeded his second cousin once removed Gerald Arthur James Balfour, 4th Earl, on 27 June 2003 under…

Roesia de Redisham

Roesia de Verdon

Roger Acton, Medieval Acton landholder

Dates: fl. 1369

A fourteenth-century landholder of the Acton Scott family, identified as the son of John le Scot and active in 1369.

Roger Aldred

Roger Aske

Roger Beckwith, Esquire of Aldburgh Hall

Dates: Circa 1560-1635

Roger Beckwith was a Yorkshire gentleman who acquired the Aldburgh Hall estate in 1597 and established the Beckwith family's ownership there.