Roger Tirel

Dates: fl. 1166

A medieval member of the Tirel family recorded as holding Alfardisworthy in 1166.

Roger Townsend, Member of the Townsend family, seller of Akenham Manor in 1586

Dates: flourished in the sixteenth century

Roger Townsend was the Townsend-family holder who sold Akenham Manor to John Aylmer in 1586.

Roger Townshend

Roger Winter

Roland Bulkeley

Dates: 16th century

Son of William Bulkeley who sold Stallington to Rafe Warrilowe in 1573.

Roland de Vaux

Roland Lee, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1534–1543, Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches

Dates: died 1543

English bishop and administrator under Henry VIII. He was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield when the Brocton grant recorded in 1539 was made.

Rooper descendants

Roseia de Verdon

Rotrou, count of Perche

Dates: died 1144

Count of Perche who held Aldbourne by 1135. The local source records the manor's passage with the comital title to his son.

Rotrou, younger count of Perche

Dates: died 1191

Count of Perche and son of Rotrou who held Aldbourne after 1144. In 1191 he gave Aldbourne church to the priory of Nogent-le-Rotrou; that ecclesiastical gift did not…

Rous and Rouse-Boughton families, Lords of Rous Lench

Dates: 1565-1876

The Rous and later Rouse-Boughton families held the Rous Lench estate with which Ab Lench descended after its purchase in 1565.

Rowland Alston

Dates: flourished early–mid 19th century

Heir by marriage to Rose Miles and later lord of Shinglehall; he sold the lordship in 1847.

Rowland Barker, Rowland Barker of Haughmond

Dates: c.1549-1599

Rowland Barker inherited the Haughmond estate from his father John Barker and was part of the Barker family descent that included Albrightlee.

Rowland Barker

Dates: 1622-1646

Rowland Barker briefly inherited the Barker estate in 1644.

Rowland Berkeley, Worcestershire landowner of Spetchley, purchaser of most of Acton Beauchamp in 1602

Dates: 1548-1611

Rowland Berkeley was a prominent Worcestershire clothier and landowner of Spetchley who purchased most of the Acton Beauchamp estate from William Lygon in 1602.

Rowland Morewood, Esquire of Alfreton Hall, High Sheriff of Derby 1706-1707

Dates: Born 1682; active early eighteenth century; exact death date not established here.

A Morewood landowner who inherited Alfreton about 1700 and commissioned the Georgian Alfreton Hall, begun in 1724 and completed in 1725.

Rowland Webster, Esquire, of Stockton and later the Grange, Bishopwearmouth

Dates: 1751-1809 for the elder Rowland Webster; a younger Rowland Webster was active in the 1810s and became bankrupt by 1827

The Webster family held the Aislaby manor and estate by the late eighteenth century. Rowland Webster's will and the subsequent title papers expressly refer to the manor of…

Royal Hospitals of St Thomas and Christ's, Royal charitable hospitals established under Edward VI

Dates: Established in the sixteenth century

The registry states that after suppression of the Savoy Hospital in 1553, Allens was granted to the newly created Royal Hospital of St Thomas and Christ's, which thereafter…

Royal manor of Havering

Royal Manor of Penkridge

Ruby Malpass

Dates: died 1964

Rufford Abbey, Cistercian abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Nottinghamshire

Dates: Founded 1148; dissolved 1536

The Cistercian house whose charters preserve evidence of a medieval moiety or estate associated with Abney Grange.

Lord Rupert Ernest William Gascoyne-Cecil, Rector of Hatfield, Bishop of Exeter, 1916–1936

Dates: 9 March 1863 – 23 June 1936

Second son of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. He was ordained in 1887, served for many years as rector of Hatfield, and became Bishop of…