William Cardinall

A sixteenth-century Essex landholder identified in the record as the purchaser of Great Bromley from Sir John Guildford in 1542.

William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general, Marshal and commander-in-chief of the Portuguese Army, Master-General of the Ordnance, Governor of Jersey, 1st Baron Beresford of Albuera and Dungarvan, 1st Viscount Beresford of Beresford.

Dates: 2 October 1768 – 8 January 1854

A distinguished British soldier who served with Wellington in the Peninsular War, Beresford acquired Bedgebury Park in 1836 and rebuilt and enlarged the estate. He married his widowed…

William Charles

William Chauncy

William Chaworth, Holder of Aldbury

Dates: active after 1459

Son and heir of Sir Thomas Chaworth; he appears to have arranged a feoffment of Aldbury for his son Thomas.

Captain William Clement Finch, Royal Navy, holder of Albury Manor

Dates: 1758-1794

William Clement Finch was a naval captain who acquired Albury from his brother and made substantial alterations to the park and estate. He died suddenly in 1794.

William Clyffe, Clerk, Doctor of Laws, Treasurer of the Metropolitan Church of St Peter of York

Dates: flourished as Treasurer of York Minster by 1538-1547

Ecclesiastical lawyer and final Treasurer of York Minster associated with the pre-Reformation court of Acomb Manor.

William Coles, esquire

Dates: flourished early nineteenth century; died 1837

William Coles was one of the purchasers of the divided Addington estate after the Trecothick ownership. The principal Addington property was subsequently sold for ecclesiastical use.

William Cook, Esquire, London merchant

Dates: flourished in the nineteenth century

Wealthy London merchant who purchased the Roydon Hall estate at the 1834 sale, including the manor of Albans according to the sale description. He was recorded as owner…

William Copley of Sprotborough

William Copley of Wadsworth

William Corbet, Corbet lord of Adderley

Dates: dates not established in consulted source

A member of the later Corbet succession at Adderley, succeeding his father Sir Robert and preceding his brother Henry.

Sir William Cornwallis, Knight, member of the Cornwallis family, Knighted at Dublin in 1599, participant in the 1599 expedition to Ireland, heir of Sir Thomas Cornwallis

Dates: died before 1627

Eldest son of Sir Thomas Cornwallis and participant in the 1599 English expedition to Ireland; he was knighted at Dublin.

William Cotton

William Courten, Merchant, knighted 1622 in the case of Sir William Courten

Dates: 1572-1636 for Sir William Courten; a younger William Courten held the later interest

The Courten family acquired Aldington in 1615. Sir William Courten was a prominent merchant-trader whose extensive property dealings later became subject to heavy debt and litigation.

William Courten, Esquire, merchant-trader

Dates: Died 1655 at Florence according to the local account; exact identification with the 1615 grantee requires caution

A member of the Courten merchant family whose landed acquisitions became heavily encumbered by debt and were litigated during the 1640s and 1650s.

William Courtenay, Heir of Edward Courtenay, husband of Katherine Plantagenet

Dates: died early 16th century

Son of Edward Courtenay and Katherine Plantagenet's husband. After imprisonment and later restoration to his honours, he succeeded to his father's estates in 1509.

William Crane

William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven, Baron Craven of Hampstead Marshall, Viscount Craven, 1st Baron Craven of Hamstead Marshall, 1st Viscount Craven of Uffington, 2nd Earl of Craven, Viscount Uffington, Baron Craven

Dates: 1608–1697

English peer who acquired Lambourn in 1626; the manor thereafter followed the descent of Hampstead Marshall and the Craven family.

William Creed, Esquire, lord of the manor of Abbotskerswell by 1878

Dates: Died 1897, according to later local historical material

A member of the Creed family of Abbotskerswell who was recorded as lord of the manor in 1878 and as a local landowner and gentleman.

William Creke

William Crofts, 1st Baron Crofts of Little Saxham, Master of the Horse and Captain of the Guard to the Queen Mother, member of the Royal Bedchamber

Dates: died 1677; barony created 1658

William Crofts was a royal servant who accompanied the exiled royal family to France and was created Baron Crofts of Little Saxham by patent at Brussels on 18…

William Curwen

William Curzon