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William Fitzwilliam of Sprotborough, Fitzwilliam heir, member of the Sprotborough branch
Dates: floruit early 16th century
Identified in the supplied narrative as the cousin and next heir to the Fitzwilliam lands after the death of Anne Fitz-William.
View historical person →William Forrester
A Gloucestershire leaseholder recorded in the 1744 Aldsworth Manor lease entry and described in the source as a cousin and heir of Catherine Ireton.
View historical person →William Fowler, Provost of Shrewsbury, landowner
Dates: 16th century
A Shrewsbury civic official and landowner who acquired the former Cwmhir abbey estate from Nicholas Williams in about 1560 and is associated with the later Fowler lordship of…
View historical person →William Frampton, Esquire, of Moreton, Dorset
Dates: Seventeenth century; died 1708 according to commonly cited Frampton family accounts, not independently relied on here
Dorset landowner who acquired Affpuddle Manor and developed the wider Frampton estate in the Piddle valley.
View historical person →William Francis George Guise, Baronet, lord of King's Barton
Dates: d. 1920
Sir William Francis George Guise succeeded Sir William Vernon Guise and died in 1920.
View historical person →William George Tyssen-Amhurst, Norfolk landed proprietor, formerly William George Daniel-Tyssen, assumed the surname Tyssen-Amhurst in 1854.
Dates: 1801–1855
Son of William George Daniel-Tyssen and Mary Fountaine. He owned Foulden Hall and acquired or developed the family’s Norfolk connection at Didlington. His eldest son was William Amhurst…
View historical person →William Gerard of Garswood, Son and heir apparent of Sir William Gerard of Brynn, later of Garswood
Dates: Active 1649-1667
Lancashire gentleman appointed receiver of the Abram estate in 1649 under an arrangement that included a remainder to his use.
View historical person →William Gibbs of Fenton, Gentleman of Fenton
The recipient of the 1551 grant of North and South Filham from Edward VI, reportedly for services in suppressing the 1549 Devon rebellion.
View historical person →William Gore, Esquire
Dates: Not established from the consulted manor source.
Owner of Abingdon Court from his purchase of the manor from Nevile Maskelyne in 1718 until the conveyance by his son and heir Charles Gore in 1762.
View historical person →William Gore, Purchaser and lord of Alderton
Dates: fl. 1382-1414
Medieval Wiltshire landholder who purchased Alderton in 1382 and is recorded holding a court baron there in 1414.
View historical person →William Gorges, Esquire or gentleman, lessee of Alderton
Dates: Active late 16th century; died 1584 according to commonly cited biographical sources, but not verified here
William Gorges was a sixteenth-century landholder associated with Alderton who built a substantial mansion there in 1582.
View historical person →Reverend William Graham Foster Pigott, Master of Arts, lord of the manor of Abington Pigotts.
Dates: Active in the nineteenth century; exact dates not established from the source used.
William Graham Foster Pigott was an Anglican clergyman and member of the family that held the Abington Pigotts estate. The 1871 directory records him as lord of the…
View historical person →William Gresham, Esquire
Dates: Flourished circa 1585; dates otherwise not established
William Gresham was the recorded late-sixteenth-century owner of the Aldburgh estate who sold it in 1597.
View historical person →William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton, English nobleman and soldier, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton, English peer
Dates: c.1508-1562
William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton, acquired Giffards from Leonard Pigott and died in possession of the manor in 1562.
View historical person →William Gwynne Vaughan, Esquire, of Penymaes, parish of Llanvillo
Dates: Will dated 13 March 1841; exact birth and death dates not established in the consulted source.
William Gwynne Vaughan was a Brecknockshire landed proprietor whose 1841 will abstract lists the manor of Mara Mota among his property, together with Penymaes and other estates in…
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