Sir John Spencer, Alderman of London, Sir by 1603 catalogue description

Dates: Dates not established from the sources reviewed

London alderman and landowner who acquired the Barley estate, including Abbotsbury, Minchingbury and Hoares, in the transaction recorded by an indenture dated 4 September 1593. He commissioned or…

Sir John Spencer of Althorp, Knight, owner of Althorp, member of the Spencer family

Dates: Died 1609

A prominent Elizabethan landowner of Althorp who is reported by the local historical account to have bought Alconbury Manor in 1600 for £4,000.

Sir John Spring, Knight

Sir John St John, Knight, of Bletsoe

Dates: By 1495-1558

Sir John St John was a Bedfordshire landowner, courtier, soldier and Member of Parliament who acquired Abbots Ripton after the Dissolution of Ramsey Abbey.

Sir John Strangways, English landowner and politician, Royalist during the Civil War

Dates: 1584-1666

Dorset landowner and Member of Parliament associated with Melbury Sampford and Abbotsbury. He supported the Royalist cause, and his fortified house at Abbotsbury was besieged and destroyed by…

Sir John Wadeson, Lord of the Manor of Kaber

Dates: fl. 17th century

Son and successor of Robert Wadeson; he sold the lordship of Kaber for £1,200 to purchasers acting in trust for the inhabitants and landowners.

Sir John White of Aldershot, Knight, landholder of Aldershot

Sir John White of Aldershot, to whom the manor was later granted and who died seized of it in 1573.

Sir John Wildman, Politician, postmaster-general 1689–1691, alderman of London, knighted 1692

Dates: c. 1621–1693

English political activist and office-holder who acquired Beckett and associated manors after the Pratt ownership and died in 1693.

Sir John Williams, Knight, Crown lessee of Alderton

Dates: Active 16th century

The source consulted provides no sufficiently specific biography beyond Sir John Williams's documented lease of the Alderton estate in 1548.

Sir John Wood, Knight, clerk of the signet

Dates: died about 1611

Sir John Wood was a royal official who served as clerk of the signet and acquired Albyns in 1587 before settling it on his daughter Magdalen in 1610.

Sir John Wray, 12th Baronet, 12th Baronet of Glentworth, landed proprietor of Sleningford, Yorkshire, and Glentworth, Lincolnshire.

Dates: 24 October 1689–26 January 1752

Sir John Wray was the son of William Wray and Isabella Ullithorne, and grandson of Cecil Wray, a younger son of Sir Christopher Wray and Albinia Cecil. He…

Sir John Zouche of Ansty, Knighted in 1549, MP for Hindon in 1547 and Shaftesbury in 1559, bailiff for Thomas Seymour, holder of Ansty, Wiltshire., Knighted 10 November 1549, Member of Parliament for Hindon in 1547 and Shaftesbury in 1559, bailiff to Thomas Seymour, Baron Seymour of Sudeley, lord of Ansty.

Dates: c.1515–30 May 1585

Sir John Zouche was a younger son of John, 8th Baron Zouche of Harringworth. He obtained the Ansty property after the Dissolution and established the Wiltshire branch. He…

Sir John Zouche of Codnor, Knight, Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, commissioner for musters and subsidies, deputy lieutenant of Derbyshire.

Dates: 1 August 1524–19 June 1586

Sir John Zouche was a leading Elizabethan Derbyshire landowner and county officer. He succeeded his father George in the Codnor estate and held several local offices, including repeated…

Sir Joshua Vanneck, Merchant and landowner, 1st Baronet of Putney

Dates: Died 1789

Sir Joshua Vanneck was a wealthy London merchant and landowner who acquired extensive Suffolk estates and is recorded as owner of Aldham in 1764.

Sir Joshua Vanneck, 3rd Baronet, later associated with the Huntingfield title

Dates: died 6 March 1777 according to Copinger's Heveningham entry; the Aldringham chronology is inconsistent

Sir Joshua Vanneck was a wealthy London merchant and baronet who acquired extensive Suffolk estates, including the later Vanneck holdings associated with Aldringham and Heveningham.

Sir Josiah Child, Baronet, merchant, governor of the East India Company

Dates: 1630-1699

Sir Josiah Child was an English merchant, economic writer, East India Company governor, and substantial landowner. He acquired Abells and Bois Hall in Halstead and listed Abells among…

Sir Lawrence John Jones, Baronet, of Cranmer Hall

A Norfolk landed proprietor associated with Cranmer Hall who was recorded in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century directories as lord of the manor and sole landowner of Alethorpe.

Sir Levinus Bennett, Baronet

Dates: floruit 1667-1668

Son and successor of Thomas Bennett, who sold Arreton in 1668.

Sir Maurice Dennys, Knight, Kent landholder

Dates: died 1553 or 1554

A Tudor Kent landholder who, with his wife Elizabeth, is named in the 1554 final concord as conveying the manor of Perycourt to Sir William Damsell.

Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale, Knight of the Garter, lord of Waxham, lord of Bedale

Dates: 14th century

English knight and military participant in the French campaigns of Edward III. He attended Pope Innocent VI in Rome in 1354 and received a Crown annuity in 1361.…

Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal

Dates: c.1509-1579

English lawyer and statesman who became Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Elizabeth I. He established the Bacon family's substantial Hertfordshire estate, including Gorhambury, and was the…

Sir Nicholas Burdett, Great Butler of Normandy

Dates: Died 1440

English military and court figure who acquired the Ab Lench interest through his marriage to Joan Bruyn and was slain in 1440.

Sir Nicholas Byron, knight

Sir Nicholas Lyllyng, holder of Abington manor

Dates: Died 1419 according to the cited descent account

A knight associated with Abington manor in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century and identified as the predecessor of the Bernard family.