William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, royal servant of Edward IV, chamberlain and political associate of Edward IV

Dates: c.1431–1483

English nobleman and administrator who received custody of forfeited Beaumont lands after the Lancastrian defeat at Towton.

William Hawtrey

William Headlam

Son and heir of Ralph Headlam. He was an infant at his father's death, received livery of Nunthorpe in 1564, and died in 1565.

William Hedges, Hedges estate holder at Alderton, of Compton Bassett

Dates: died 1757

Wiltshire gentleman of Compton Bassett who married Elizabeth Gore, Lady of Alderton Manor, in 1714 and whose son Thomas inherited the estate after William's death.

William Henry Ashe à Court-Holmes, 2nd Baron Heytesbury, British peer

Dates: 1809–1891

William Henry Ashe à Court-Holmes was a British peer who succeeded as the 2nd Baron Heytesbury in 1860. He is the person identified in the registry as the…

William Henry Bagnall, Esquire, lord of the manor of Abbots Morton

Dates: Resident at Bafford House by the late nineteenth or early twentieth century; further biographical dates not established

William Henry Bagnall was an absentee landowner resident at Bafford House, Charlton Kings, and was recorded as lord of Abbots Morton in the 1910 land-valuation study.

William Henry Campion

William Henry Fellowes

Dates: 1769-1838

William Henry Fellowes was a member of the Fellowes family associated with the acquisition of the principal portion of Abbots Ripton Manor.

William Henry Gilbert, Landowner

Dates: died 1832

Landowner who purchased Cantley Netherhall from Baron Suffield around 1806 and held it until his death in 1832.

William Herbrand Sackville, 10th Earl De La Warr, hereditary peer

Dates: 1948–2021

British hereditary peer and member of the Sackville family. He inherited the De La Warr title and associated estates, including Swanborough, and is identified in the manor record…

William Higford

Dates: Held after 1513; succeeded by his son in 1545

Higford lord of the manor and father of John Higford, who succeeded him in 1545.

William Higford

Dates: Died 1657

Gloucestershire landowner and author of Institutions, or Advice to his Grandson. He held Dixton and the associated Alderton estate until 1657.

William Higford

Dates: Died 1733

Higford lord of the manor in the early eighteenth-century succession and father of the younger William Higford.

William Higford

Dates: Succeeded 1733; replaced 1770

Higford holder of Dixton Manor and the associated Alderton estate in the mid-eighteenth century.

William Hill

William Hitchcock

William Hodgson

William Holte

William Horne

William Howard, Lord Howard of Naworth, antiquary and landowner, Baron Howard of Castle Rising, 1st Baron Howard of Naworth, Cumberland landowner and antiquary

Dates: 1563–1640

Howard of Naworth who, according to the supplied account, acquired the Tranwell and High Church interest through his marriage to Elizabeth Dacre.

William Howse

William Hugh Amherst Cecil, 4th Baron Amherst of Hackney, director of E. A. Gibson, shipbrokers, 1975–1990, director of Short Sea Europe plc, 1996–2009

Dates: 28 December 1940 – 2 April 2009

William Hugh Amherst Cecil, generally known as Hugh, was the elder son of William Alexander Evering Cecil, 3rd Baron Amherst of Hackney. Educated at Eton, he succeeded his…

William Hulton of Over Hulton, Member of Parliament for Clitheroe in 1660

Dates: fl. 1660

William Hulton of Over Hulton contested the election for Clitheroe and sat in Parliament from July to December 1660.

William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Dates: 1867–1932

British peer who succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Dudley in 1885.