Sir William Calverley alias Scott, knight

Sir William Carr, Knighted at Belvoir in 1603

Dates: died 1607 or 1608

Member of the Lincolnshire Carr family and brother of Robert Carr of Aswarby. He inherited the Brauncewell lordship in 1606 and died childless soon afterwards.

Sir William Cavendish, courtier and administrator

Dates: c.1508-1557

English courtier and administrator who received numerous Crown grants during the reign of Edward VI.

Sir William Chaworth, Knight, lord of Alfreton, later summoned to Parliament as a baron in 1296 according to White's Directory

Dates: Thirteenth century; exact dates not established here.

A Chaworth landholder who acquired the Latham share of the Alfreton inheritance and consolidated the estate.

Sir William Criketot

Dates: fl. c.13th/14th century

Medieval Suffolk landholder recorded by the local historical record as holding Abriwicks alias Allred Wykes in Great Ashfield.

Sir William Damsell, Knight, Tudor purchaser of Perrycourt

Dates: died before 25 Elizabeth I (before 1583-1584)

A Tudor knight who purchased the manor of Perycourt and extensive associated property from Sir Maurice Dennys and Elizabeth Dennys in 1554 for £1,820.

Sir William de Malebisse, Knight, lord of Acaster

Dates: fl. 1347

Sir William de Malebisse was a 14th-century Yorkshire landholder who exercised lordship over Acaster and confirmed lands held of his fee by Guisborough canons.

Sir William de Vescy, Knight, said by Copinger to have been created Earl of Suffolk in 1326 in right of his wife

Dates: dates not established in the cited source

Sir William de Vescy acquired the Aldringham connection through his marriage to Maud de Glanville, the manor's Glanville heiress, according to Copinger.

Sir William Dods, Knight, holder of the Agnells Manor court jointly with Elizabeth his wife

Dates: Active by 1556–1557; other dates not securely established in the sources located

A knight recorded as holding the court baron of Agnells Manor in Hemel Hempstead jointly with his wife Elizabeth in 1556–1557.

Sir William Essex, Knight, owner of Chipping Lambourn

Dates: 16th century

Sir William Essex of Chipping Lambourn received the manor of Ashbury from the Crown in 1543 after the seizure of Glastonbury Abbey's possessions.

Sir William Fairfax of Steeton, Knight, Serjeant-at-law, Judge of the County Palatine of Lancaster

Sir William Felton, knight

Dates: Active about 1340

A fourteenth-century knight and benefactor of Balliol College, Oxford. He provided the Abbotsley rectory and manor for the support of the College's scholars and fellows.

Sir William Fiennes, 2nd Baron Saye and Sele, landowner of Broughton Castle, participant in the Wars of the Roses

Dates: died 1471

Sir William Fiennes married Margaret Wykeham in 1448. Through her inheritance the Fiennes family acquired Broughton Castle, which became the principal seat of the Saye and Sele line.…

Sir William Fitzwilliam of Emley, knight

Sir William FitzWilliam of Sprotborough, Knight, FitzWilliam landholder of Sprotborough and Adwick

Dates: fl. early 16th century

Sir William FitzWilliam was a member of the Yorkshire FitzWilliam family of Sprotborough and held the reversionary and leasing interest in the manor of Adwick in the early…

Sir William Fogge, Knight, member of the Fogge family of Kent

Dates: floruit late 14th to early 15th century

Identified in the supplied Licktopp succession narrative as the son and successor of Sir Thomas Fogge and father of Sir John Fogge.

Sir William Guise, lord of Elmore, member of the Guise family of Elmore, Baronet, member of the Guise family of Gloucestershire, lord of King's Barton

Dates: Seventeenth century; exact dates not established in the sources used

Sir William Guise was a member of the Gloucestershire Guise family seated at Elmore. The available historical account links him with the acquisition of Abloads in Sandhurst during…

Sir William Harbord, 1st Baronet, Baronet from 1745, Member of Parliament for Norwich

Dates: died 1770

English landowner who inherited Cantley Netherhall from his childless uncle Harbord Harbord in 1742 and died in 1770.

Sir William Harrington, English knight, lord of Hornby

Dates: c. 1356–1419

Sir William Harrington of Hornby was a prominent northern English landholder and knight. He married Margaret Neville, through whom estates associated with the Neville family passed into the…

Sir William James Wray, 15th Baronet, 15th and last Baronet of Glentworth, landed gentleman.

Dates: c.1771–27 August 1809

Sir William James Wray was the only surviving son of Rev. Sir William Ullithorne Wray, 14th Baronet. He inherited the baronetcy in August 1808 but died without issue…

Sir William Jarvis Twysden, Baronet of Roydon Hall

Dates: died 1832 or 1833 according to the differing estate-sale references; exact date requires verification

Twysden baronet and owner of the Roydon Hall estate. Hasted identifies him as the late eighteenth-century possessor of Albans alias Wimplingbury; the 1834 sale notice identifies the estate…

Sir William Killigrew, 1st Baronet, member of the Killigrew family of Cornwall

Dates: 17th century

The grandson of Sir John Killigrew. According to the authoritative Budock record, he was created a baronet by Charles II in 1660 and later sold the Killigrew estates…

Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet, Member of Parliament, later Leveson-Gower

Dates: 1647–1691

Landholder who succeeded after the extinction of the Francis Fowler line and later took the name Leveson-Gower.

Sir William Middleton, Baronet, of Belsay Castle

Dates: eighteenth century; exact dates not established here

Sir William Middleton was the son of Sir John Middleton and Frances Middleton and sold the family's Malhamdale property to Oliver Marton in 1727.