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Sir Edmund de Passelew
Dates: flourished early 14th century; death date not established
A landholder who held Albury in Merstham of the Prior of Christchurch jointly with his son John. The consulted manor evidence does not establish further biographical details.
View historical person →Sir Edmund Mark Winn, 7th Baronet, Seventh Baronet, of Ackton
Dates: Baptised 16 September 1762; died 1 June 1833
Sir Edmund Mark Winn was a Yorkshire landowner who succeeded to the Ackton estate and became seventh baronet in 1805. He died unmarried in 1833.
View historical person →Sir Edward Acton, 1st Baronet, Acton Scott landholder
Dates: died 1659
A seventeenth-century Acton landholder and baronet who held Acton Scott and whose estates were compounded for in 1646.
View historical person →Sir Edward Acton, 3rd Baronet, Acton Scott landholder
Dates: died 1716
An Acton baronet and landholder who created a settlement directing the separate descent of Acton Scott to his second son Edward Acton.
View historical person →Sir Edward Awbrey
Dates: Died 1619; birth date not established here
Son and successor of Dr William Awbrey in the Abercynrig estate according to the Cadw historical account.
View historical person →Sir Edward Carr, 1st Baronet, Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1615
Dates: died 1618
Fourth son of Robert Carr and successor to his brother Sir William Carr in the Brauncewell succession. He was created a baronet in 1611 and left three children.
View historical person →Sir Edward Coke, English barrister, jurist, law officer and politician, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, Chief Justice of King's Bench, Speaker of the House of Commons, legal author, English jurist, law officer, Member of Parliament, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Knight, Attorney General, Solicitor General, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, Attorney General of England, Solicitor General of England, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Member of Parliament.
Dates: 1552-1634
Sir Edward Coke was a prominent English jurist and politician who acquired substantial landed property, including the Suffolk manor of Aldham according to the local manorial record.
View historical person →Sir Edward Fitton, of Gawsworth
Dates: Died 1643 according to the cited secondary account; exact identification of the relevant Sir Edward requires care
Member of the Fitton family of Gawsworth who received the reversion of Aldford jointly with Robert Tatton in 1557 according to the cited record.
View historical person →Sir Edward Joseph Smythe, 6th Baronet, lord of the manor of Acton Burnell
Dates: 1787-1856
The sixth Smythe baronet associated with Acton Burnell. He was identified as lord of the manor in the nineteenth-century directory and was the owner for whom Acton Burnell…
View historical person →Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet, British Army general, Member of Parliament
Dates: 1776–1853
Sir Edward Kerrison was a British Army officer who commanded a regiment at the Battle of Waterloo and was associated with Oakley Park.
View historical person →Sir Edward Leche, Master in Chancery, knighted September 1621, knighted 1621
Dates: died 1652
English legal office-holder and landowner. He acquired Belper from the Corporation of the City of London within a year of its 1628 purchase and held other Derbyshire properties,…
View historical person →Sir Edward Littleton, of Pillerton Hall, Staffordshire
Dates: Dates not established in the consulted manor source
A Staffordshire landowner who received Aldington and Pirton as security for debts associated with William Courten.
View historical person →Sir Edward Randall, of Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, holder of Albury Manor
Dates: floruit early 17th century
Sir Edward Randall of Edlesborough was the Randall successor in Albury Manor and sold the manor to John Gresham in 1633-4.
View historical person →Sir Edward Smythe, 4th Baronet, owner of Acton Burnell
Dates: 1719-1784
The Smythe baronet for whom Acton Burnell Hall was rebuilt in the 1750s. He also developed and embellished the surrounding landscape park late in his life.
View historical person →Sir Edward Zouch of Hoebridge House, Woking, Courtier to James I and Charles I, Knight Marshal of the King's Household, steward and keeper of Woking Manor and Park, holder of Woking, Bagshot and Chobham estates from 1620
Dates: died 7 June 1634
Sir Edward Zouch was a courtier, court masque participant and royal officer who became closely associated with Woking. He was appointed steward and keeper of Woking Manor in…
View historical person →Sir Edwin Rich
Dates: active 1585-1597
Member of the Rich family who took the Stockholt estate under the 1585 settlement and sold it to John Lambard in 1597.
View historical person →Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Baronet, 1st Baronet of Canons Ashby, English landowner
Dates: 1553–1632
English landowner who inherited Canons Ashby from his father, John Dryden, and was created the first Dryden baronet in 1619. He was the father of the poet John…
View historical person →Sir Ernest Debenham, founder of the Bladen Estate, agricultural innovator
Dates: 1865-1952
Debenham department-store proprietor and agricultural experimenter who acquired a large Dorset estate in 1914, including Affpuddle, and developed the Bladen model-farming estate.
View historical person →Sir Francis Bacon, English lawyer, statesman and philosopher, Baron Verulam from 1618 and Viscount St Alban from 1621
Dates: 1561-1626
Sir Francis Bacon was an English lawyer, statesman and writer who served James I as Lord Chancellor. His role here was as one of the trustees named in…
View historical person →Sir Francis Baildon, Thomas Rookwood and Edmund Rolte, Sir Francis Baildon of Kippax, Thomas Rookwood of London, Edmund Rolte of Gray's Inn
Dates: Active in the early seventeenth century; individual dates not established here
These three men are recorded as the purchasers of the entire Manor of Wensleydale or Abbotside from the Duke of Lennox in 1614.
View historical person →Sir Francis Barrington, English landowner, baronet
Dates: floruit late 16th-early 17th century
Sir Francis Barrington was an Essex landowner associated with the Barrington family.
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