White family

Wido de Reinbuedcurt, Norman tenant-in-chief or landholder recorded in Buckinghamshire in Domesday Book

Dates: Recorded active in 1086

A Norman landholder recorded in the Domesday survey of 1086 as holding Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire.

Wilbraham Frederic Tollemache, 2nd Baron Tollemache, Member of Parliament for West Cheshire

Dates: 1832-1925

British peer and politician, son and successor of John Jervis Tollemache, 1st Baron Tollemache. He represented West Cheshire from 1872 to 1885.

Wilfrid of Brougham

Wilkinson Blanchard, Recorded Lord and steward of Acomb Manor

Dates: flourished 1734-1737

Wilkinson Blanchard is named in the Acomb court-roll summary as a steward and, in 1737, as a private lord or lessee of the manor.

William A. Sparrow, Lord of the manor of Albrighton, patron of the living

Dates: Active as lord of the manor in 1899; other dates not established in the cited source

William A. Sparrow was a late nineteenth-century Shropshire landowner who was described in 1899 as lord of the manor and patron of Albrighton's living.

William Acton, Acton Scott landholder

Dates: 15th century

A member of the Acton family associated with Acton Scott and one of the holders in the late medieval family and coparcenary descent.

William Alcock, Banker of Skipton, lord of the manors of Airton, Calton and Hanlith

Dates: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; exact dates not established here

William Alcock was a Skipton banker who acquired the manors of Airton, Calton and Hanlith from Gamaliel Lloyd in 1782.

William Aldburgh, Esquire, member of the Aldburgh family of Aldborough and Ellenthorpe

Dates: Not established from the source reviewed

William Aldburgh is directly named in the 1652 deed as a party to a common recovery of Aldborough manor made in connection with his marriage settlement.

Major William Alexander Evering Cecil, 3rd Baron Amherst of Hackney, Royal Horse Guards, CBE 1963, Officer of the Order of St John., 3rd Baron Amherst of Hackney from 21 December 1919, served with the Middle East Force during the Second World War, CBE, Order of St John., OStJ, army officer and Major in the Royal Horse Guards, participant in House of Lords affairs after the Second World War.

Dates: 31 May 1912–22 July 1980

Eldest son of Hon. William Amherst Cecil and Evelyn Gladys Baggallay. He succeeded his grandmother Mary as 3rd Baron Amherst in 1919 and inherited Foulden Hall and Hackney…

William Alexander Gilbert, Landowner

Dates: died 1887

Landowner who inherited Cantley Netherhall from his father William Henry Gilbert in 1832 and held extensive property in Cantley.

William Alston of Odell, Member of the Alston family of Odell, holder of the consolidated Pavenham lordships

Dates: died 1638

William Alston acquired the three historically separate lordships of Pavenham in the early seventeenth century and held them until his death in 1638.

William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, Conservative MP for West Norfolk, 1880–1885, MP for South West Norfolk, 1885–1892, High Sheriff of Norfolk, 1866, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, created 26 August 1892., Conservative Member of Parliament for West Norfolk and South West Norfolk, Knight of Justice of St John, Conservative MP for West Norfolk and South West Norfolk, collector of books, manuscripts and Egyptian antiquities

Dates: 25 April 1835–16 January 1909

Collector of rare books, manuscripts and Egyptian antiquities, and landed proprietor of Foulden Hall, Didlington Hall and Hackney property. He changed the spelling of the family name to…

William Ampleford

William Ampthill

William Anson, Owner of Shugborough, ancestor of the Earls of Lichfield

Dates: floruit 1658

William Anson of Shugborough is identified in the supplied manor record as acquiring the lordship of Acton Trussell in 1658 and as the ancestor of the later Earls…

William Anson of Shugborough

William Ashby of Breakspear

Dates: 17th-18th century

A landholder of Breakspear, Middlesex, who is reported to have acquired the Abbotts Manor interest through marriage to John Aleyn's daughter and heir.

William Asshurst

Dates: recorded 1499

William Asshurst is identified in the 1499 settlement as the brother and heir of John Asshurst and the reversionary beneficiary of Le More.

William Asshurst junior

Dates: floruit 1409

William Asshurst junior is recorded in the 1409 conveyance of the property which the Victoria County History considers probably to represent Le More in East Betchworth.

William Avenel, Lord of Adstock, benefactor of Leicester Abbey

Dates: Active in the later twelfth century

William Avenel was a twelfth-century landholder who received Adstock after the forfeiture of the Peverel lands and granted the advowson of Adstock church and a carucate of land…

William Awbrey, Doctor of Civil Law

Dates: Active in the later sixteenth century; exact birth and death dates not established in the consulted manor evidence.

William Awbrey was a sixteenth-century Welsh legal scholar and office-holder who is directly recorded in the letters patent as the lessee of Mara Mota. The present evidence supports…

William Baard

Dates: Flourished 1166

Medieval landholder who held two knights' fees of the Bishop of London, probably representing Albury.

William Bagot