Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet, and subsequent Miles holders, Miles family owners of the Leigh Court and Abbots Leigh estate

Dates: Sir William Miles 1797–1878; later holders include Philip John William Miles, Cecil Miles and Henry Miles

The Miles family retained the Abbots Leigh estate after Philip John Miles’s death. Sir William Miles was created a baronet in 1859, and later family members inherited the…

Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet Molesworth of Pencarrow, Cornwall, Member of Parliament, First Commissioner of Works and Colonial Secretary

Dates: 23 May 1810-22 October 1855

Cornish baronet and Radical politician who succeeded his father, Sir Arscott Ourry Molesworth, as 8th Baronet. He served as a Member of Parliament and later in the coalition…

Sir William Neville Abdy, 2nd Baronet of the 1849 Abdy creation

Dates: 1844-1910

Sir William Neville Abdy was the owner of Albyns recorded in Kelly's Directory of Essex in 1902. The house was occupied at that time by Frederic E. Loyd.

Sir William Pateshull

Dates: died 1359

A later descendant in the Pateshull line who died without issue in 1359, after which his estates were divided.

Sir William Paulet, Lord St John of Basing, 1st Marquess of Winchester, statesman and court official, Baron St John of Basing, Earl of Wiltshire, Marquess of Winchester, Lord Treasurer of England, Knight of the Garter, Comptroller of the King's Household, Master of the King's Wards.

Dates: c.1475-1572

Sir William Paulet was a prominent Tudor statesman who served Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. He acquired extensive Hampshire lands and is directly associated…

Sir William Pelham, knight

Dates: Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century; exact dates not established here

Pelham knight who acquired the Albright Hussey estate through marriage to the Hussey heiress. His daughter Anne later married William Corbet of Leigh.

Sir William Robert Campion, KCMG, DSO, Member of Parliament for Lewes, 1910-1924, Governor of Western Australia, 1924-1931, British Conservative politician

Dates: 1870-1951

British politician and colonial governor who succeeded to Clayton after his father William Henry Campion. He represented Lewes in Parliament and served as Governor of Western Australia from…

Sir William St. Quintin, Knight

Dates: Henry VIII

Sir William Stafford, Dorothy Stafford, Sir Humphrey Stafford and Elizabeth Stafford, Sir William Stafford and Sir Humphrey Stafford were knights

Dates: flourished mid-sixteenth century

Stafford family co-holders who conveyed Abinger Manor to Thomas and Edward Elrington in 1551 according to the Victoria County History.

Sir William Stanley of Holt, Lord Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, lord of Holt and Aldford

Dates: Executed 16 February 1495

Yorkist and later Tudor political figure who acquired Aldford from Sir John Stanley of Elford. He was executed in 1495 after being accused of involvement in the rebellion…

Sir William Thomas, Knighted 1603, justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for Caernarfonshire, sheriff 1607-1608, member of the Council of the Marches

Dates: Born 1572; died 1634

Sir William Thomas was a Caernarfonshire landowner and public official. He inherited the Thomas estates, including Aber, and built the Jacobean house at Pen-y-bryn at the manor of…

Sir William Thornhurst, member of the Thornhurst family

Dates: Dates not securely established in the sources reviewed

Sir William Thornhurst was a member of the Kent Thornhurst family and is identified in the Agney history as successor to his father Stephen in the family's leasehold…

Sir William Villiers, 1st Baronet of Brooksby, High Sheriff of Leicestershire 1609, 2nd Baronet of Brooksby, Royalist during the English Civil War

Dates: c.1575–12 June 1629

Sir William was the eldest son of Sir George Villiers of Brooksby by Audrey Saunders and inherited the Brooksby estate. He was created the first Villiers baronet of…

Sir William Villiers, 3rd Baronet of Brooksby, Member of Parliament for Leicester 1698–1701, resident proprietor of Brooksby Hall

Dates: 9 January 1645–27 February 1712

Sir William was the only son of Sir George Villiers, 2nd Baronet. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1682 and represented Leicester in Parliament from 1698 to 1701.…

Sir William Webb, Knight, Lord of Motcombe

Dates: died 1613

A younger son of William Webb, a Salisbury merchant, Sir William Webb was knighted by James I and associated with building at Motcombe.

Sir William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham, Lieutenant-Governor of Calais, 1550–1558, soldier in the wars of Henry VIII, Knighted 1542, Esquire of the Body before 1545, Deputy of Calais 1550–1552, Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster, created 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham in 1546/7, Knight, landed gentleman of Parham, Suffolk, MP for Lincolnshire 1545, Lieutenant-Governor or Lord Deputy of Calais and adjacent marches 1550-1558, Baron Willoughby of Parham 1547, father of the 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham. He is also associated in later accounts with service in the royal sphere, but the precise identification of every military or court appearance should remain source-critical.

Dates: c.1515–August 1574

Sir William was the son and heir of Sir Christopher Willoughby of Parham. He was knighted and raised to the peerage in the accession honours of Edward VI.…

Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet of Ashby, MP for Grimsby in several Parliaments, deputy governor of Beaumaris Castle, knighted 6 June 1660, 1660., Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby, created 27 June 1660., MP for Great Grimsby, created Baronet of Ashby 27 June 1660., created 1660

Dates: c.1625/1626–17 October 1669

A Parliamentarian and later Royalist politician, William inherited Ashby after his father's death and was created a baronet at the Restoration. His marriage into the Tufton family reinforced…

Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet of Glentworth, MP for Grimsby and Lincolnshire, High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1594, knighted 23 July 1603, 1611., Knight, Member of Parliament

Dates: c.1555–13 August 1617

The only surviving son and heir of Sir Christopher Wray, William consolidated the family estates and became one of the first Lincolnshire baronets. The former Barlings Abbey property…

Siward, Earl of Northumbria

Dates: Died 1055

Anglo-Saxon earl and pre-Conquest landholder. Domesday records him as the 1066 lord of one of the holdings at Acklam.

Siward Barn, Anglo-Saxon nobleman, associated in later historical accounts with the pre-Conquest lordship of Adlingfleet

Dates: floruit before 1066; lost his lands after joining the revolt of 1069-1071

Siward Barn was a prominent late Anglo-Saxon landholder and kinsman of the royal house. He submitted to William the Conqueror but later joined the resistance associated with the…

Siward of Malden, Thane

Dates: Active in 1066

A landholder recorded in the Domesday-era account of Acton. The local manorial summary identifies him as holding the 12-carucate estate in 1066.

Sophia Pelham, Mrs Dudley Long North

Dates: c.1780s–19th century

Daughter of the Earl of Yarborough who married Dudley Long in 1802; she inherited Blaxhall after her husband's death in 1839.

Sophia Zouch, Daughter of Sir Edward Zouch of Woking, wife of Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon, Dowager Viscountess Wimbledon from 16 November 1638, second wife of Sir Robert King of Boyle Abbey.

Dates: c. 1618 – 12 November 1691

Sophia was born into the Woking branch of the Zouch family. She married Edward Cecil in September 1635, when she was approximately seventeen and he was sixty-three. Their…

Speccot family