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Thomas Audley, Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
Dates: 1488-1544
An Essex-born lawyer and statesman who became Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Chancellor in 1533, and Baron Audley of Walden in 1538. He acquired former monastic…
View historical person →Thomas Backhouse Ecroyd, lord of the manor of Ainstable
Dates: died 1945
A member of the Ecroyd family who succeeded Edward Ecroyd as lord of Ainstable Manor and held it until 1945.
View historical person →Thomas Bardolf, son and heir of Hugh Bardolf, later Lord Bardolf
Dates: flourished early fourteenth century
Thomas Bardolf succeeded his father Hugh as heir to the Bardolf estates. The Crown records concerning Hugh's death and the custody of his lands identify Thomas as the…
View historical person →Thomas Barker
Dates: c.1613-1652
Thomas Barker briefly inherited the Barker estate in 1652.
View historical person →Thomas Baynham, Gentleman and holder of the Baynham estates
Dates: Died 1500
Husband of Alice Walwyn and member of the Baynham family through whom the reunited Abenhall inheritance descended after 1484.
View historical person →Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, English nobleman and military commander
Dates: c. 1377–1426
An English nobleman of the Beaufort family who served the Lancastrian monarchy and held the title Duke of Exeter.
View historical person →Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancellor of England
Dates: c. 1119–1170
English archbishop and royal chancellor who became involved in a major conflict with Henry II and was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. He was canonised in 1173.
View historical person →Thomas Beckingham (d. 1510)
Dates: d. 1510
Holder of Cley Court and of land associated with Shrivenham and Bourton; he was described as of Ducklington, Oxfordshire, and died seised in 1510.
View historical person →Thomas Beckingham (d. 1527)
Dates: d. 1527
Inherited Cley Court from his father and died in 1527, leaving a ten-year-old son, John.
View historical person →Thomas Beckwith of Ackton, Esquire of Ackton, associated with the Beckwith pedigree of Ackton
Dates: Flourished late 16th and early 17th centuries; buried at Featherstone in 1615 according to the visitation material
Thomas Beckwith was a Yorkshire gentleman of Ackton, admitted to Gonville and Caius College in 1587-1588 and recorded in the 1612 Yorkshire visitation. He married Frances, daughter and…
View historical person →Thomas Belasyse, 1st Viscount Fauconberg, English peer
Dates: 1690–1774
English peer of the Belasyse family. The registry identifies the Brocton heiress Catherine Fowler's marriage to Viscount Fauconberg in 1726.
View historical person →Thomas Bernard, Holder of Abington manor
Dates: Died 1464 according to the published descent
A member of the Bernard family in the documented descent of Abington manor.
View historical person →Thomas Boleyn, Clerk, intermediary or feoffee in the 1471 fine, English courtier and diplomat, Viscount Rochford, Earl of Wiltshire, father of Anne Boleyn
Dates: Active fifteenth century
A cleric named as one of the querents in the 1471 fine by which Scot's Manor in Abbotsley was acknowledged to him and his co-querents.
View historical person →Thomas Bond, Lord of Aldbourne Manor
Dates: dates uncertain; active in Aldbourne by 1632
Landholder associated with Aldbourne who acquired the lordship of the manor from the City of London in 1632. The consulted sources do not provide sufficiently secure biographical dates…
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