William Bagott and Benjamin Lloyd, Gentlemen, parties to the 1656 conveyance

Dates: Dates not established in the consulted manor source

Grantees who acquired the manor through the settlement of William Courten's creditors in 1656.

William Baker

William Baker of Clare

William Baldwin

William Bardolf, William Bardolf of Wormegay, member of the Bardolf baronial family

Dates: flourished 1379

William Bardolf was the Bardolf holder who obtained royal licence in 1379 to grant a life interest in Addington Manor while reserving remainders to his son and the…

William Bardolf, Bardolf holder associated with Addington, licence to alienate Bardolf's Court in 1379 is reported

Dates: Active in the later fourteenth century

William Bardolf is recorded in the cited Surrey material in connection with an alienation licence for Bardolf's Court in 1379. The source does not prove that the transaction…

William Barker

Dates: 1581-1652

William Barker inherited the Barker estate from his nephew Rowland Barker in 1646.

William Barlow, Bishop of St Davids, subsequently Bishop of Bath and Wells and Bishop of Chichester

Dates: Died 1568; Bishop of St Davids, 1536-1548

William Barlow was a sixteenth-century English reforming bishop. As Bishop of St Davids, he petitioned for the removal of Abergwili College to Brecon and established the later practice…

William Barrett

William Battie, Physician, President of the Royal College of Physicians

Dates: 1704–1776

William Battie was an English physician best known for his work on mental illness. He acquired Southweek in 1750, according to the authoritative manor record, and was associated…

William Beauchamp

William Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny, Lord of Bergavenny

Dates: c. 1343–1411

English nobleman of the Beauchamp family and holder of the barony of Bergavenny.

William Beauclerc Powell, Of Nanteos, identified as lord of the manor in the late nineteenth-century local directory evidence

Dates: Nineteenth-century Cardiganshire landowner; exact dates not established in the source used

William Beauclerc Powell was a member of the Powell family of Nanteos and a Cardiganshire landowner. The relevant evidence identifies him as lord of the manor rather than…

William Berkeley, Worcestershire landowner, High Sheriff of Worcestershire, 1617-1618, holder of Acton Beauchamp

Dates: 1583-1658

William Berkeley was the eldest son of Rowland Berkeley of Spetchley. He inherited Acton Beauchamp from his father in 1611 and was a prominent Worcestershire landowner and office-holder.

William Bernake

William Biset

William Blomer, Esquire, lord of Eastleach Turville in the 1608 survey

Dates: Flourished in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century

A Gloucestershire landowner who purchased the manor of Eastleach Turville in 1595 and was later recorded among its lords.

William Bonville

Sir William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville, Knight of the Garter, English nobleman

Dates: 1392–1461

A Devon landowner and nobleman who acquired John Meryot's share of West Kington in 1379 according to the supplied account. He was beheaded after the Second Battle of…

William Borough (Marion line)

William Borough of York

William Botiller

William Boutevilein, Lord of Cottesbrooke, founder of Pipewell Abbey

Dates: fl. reign of Henry II

William Boutevilein held Cottesbrooke during the reign of Henry II and is identified in the registry record as founder of Pipewell Abbey.

William Boville, Boville landholder associated with the Glanville inheritance and Alderton.

Dates: fl. late 12th to early 13th century, uncertain

William Boville is identified in the researched material as the husband of a Glanville heiress whose portion included land associated with Alderton. The sources also connect the Boville…