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Russell family and Bedford Estates, Earls and Dukes of Bedford
Dates: Seventeenth to eighteenth centuries in this holding context
The Russell family became the holders of the Bedford title and accumulated a substantial landed estate. The cited local and estate-history sources connect the Bedford interest specifically with…
View historical person →Sackville Arthur Cecil, Company director, railway administrator, chairman of the Brazilian Submarine Telegraph Company.
Dates: 16 March 1848 – 29 January 1898
The eldest son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury by Lady Mary Catherine Sackville-West. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, worked with Sir Charles Tilston Bright on submarine…
View historical person →Sackville Tufton, 9th Earl of Thanet, peer and landowner, 7th Earl of Thanet, hereditary sheriff of Westmorland, Member of Parliament for Appleby, 8th Earl of Thanet, Lord of Skipton, Baron of Westmoreland
Dates: 1767–1825
Born at Hothfield Place in 1767, Sackville Tufton was the 9th Earl of Thanet. He was associated with Whig politics, was convicted in 1799 after the trial connected…
View historical person →Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester, Magna Carta baron
Dates: died 1219
English nobleman who took part in the Fifth Crusade and died in Egypt in 1219.
View historical person →Sampson Gideon, 1st Baron Eardley, Financier
Dates: 1744–1824
British financier and peer, son of Sampson Gideon; created Baron Eardley in 1789.
View historical person →Samuel Aylmer, Suffolk landowner, High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1626
Dates: 1546-1635
Samuel Aylmer was the son of Bishop John Aylmer. He lived at Akenham Hall, held Akenham and Claydon, and served as High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1626.
View historical person →Samuel Baker, Solicitor, associated with Aldwick Court.
Dates: Active at Aldwick by 1791; died 1841 according to local historical material, but the death date is not required to establish the manor connection.
Samuel Baker was a Somerset solicitor who built Aldwick Court in 1791. He was associated with the Aldwick estate and was described in local historical material as a…
View historical person →Samuel Blackwell, Member of Parliament for Cirencester
A Member of Parliament for Cirencester and a documented 1766 lessee of Aldsworth Manor. He also acquired the separate Williamstrip estate about 1760.
View historical person →Samuel Clough
Dates: 18th century
Eighteenth-century landholder recorded as owning Abriwicks alias Allred Wykes in Great Ashfield.
View historical person →Samuel Cunliffe Lister, Industrialist, later associated with the Jervaulx, Swinton and Middleham estates
Dates: 1815–1906
Samuel Cunliffe Lister was a West Riding industrialist and major landowner who purchased the Jervaulx estate in 1886.
View historical person →Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 1st Baron Masham, Industrialist, created Baron Masham in 1891
Dates: 1815-1906
Samuel Cunliffe Lister was a Yorkshire textile industrialist and coal proprietor who acquired most of the Ackton Hall estate in 1890, including important mineral and colliery interests. He…
View historical person →Samuel Edwards
Purchased Langford from John Jackson in 1820 and was one of the instigators of the enclosure of Langford open fields in 1827.
View historical person →Samuel Gist
Dates: Lord of the manor in 1807; died before 1845
Nineteenth-century Gloucestershire landowner who acquired substantial land in Dixton and the manor house and was lord of the manor in 1807.
View historical person →Samuel Gist, Lord of the manor
Dates: Succeeded 1845; living 1897
Gist family landowner and lord of the manor of Alderton in the late nineteenth century. Kelly's Directory records him as the principal manorial lord and a chief landowner.
View historical person →Samuel Gist Gist
Dates: Died 1845
Member of the Gist family who succeeded to the Dixton estate and manor-house interests before his death in 1845.
View historical person →Samuel Glover, Esquire, industrialist
Dates: died 1810
Birmingham-based merchant and ironmaster associated with the Abercarn Ironworks and the Abercarn estate. He bought the lordship of the Manor of Abercarn in 1783.
View historical person →Samuel Grimston, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament
Dates: 1643-1700
Succeeded Sir Harbottle Grimston and left Great Henny to his nephew William Luckyn.
View historical person →Samuel Jones Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone, banker and landowner, Banker, 1st Baron Overstone of Overstone and Fotheringay
Dates: 1796 to 1883
A prominent English banker and landowner who succeeded his father Lewis Loyd in the Abington estate and was created Baron Overstone in 1850.
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