William Stanley, 3rd Baron Monteagle, 4th Earl of Derby

Dates: c.1515–1562

English nobleman and hereditary lord of the Stanley family estates. He was the 4th Earl of Derby during the Elizabethan period and is identified in the registry as…

Colonel William Staunton, army officer in the service of King Charles I

A member of the Staunton family who sold the East Markham lordship to William Cartwright after serving in the royalist army during the Civil War.

William Stephen Poyntz, British politician, Member of Parliament

Dates: 1770-1840

British politician and husband of Elizabeth, sister of the eighth Viscount Montagu, associated with the post-1793 succession of Clayton.

William Stephen Poyntz of Midgham and Cowdray, English Whig Member of Parliament, landed gentleman of Midgham and Cowdray.

Dates: 20 January 1770–8 April 1840

Son of William Poyntz of Midgham and Isabella Courtenay. He married Elizabeth Mary Browne, sister and heiress of George Samuel Browne, 8th Viscount Montagu, and thereby acquired the…

William Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton, English courtier and landowner

Dates: c.1400–1478

English landowner who married Margaret Chidiock and was created Baron Stourton in 1448; the registry records Stourton Caundle passing into his family through that marriage.

William Strangeways

William Syrer

William Taylor

William Tey, Esquire, court holder of Aldham

Dates: fl. 1491

A late fifteenth-century member of the Tey family recorded as holder of Aldham in 1491.

William Tey, Esquire, court holder of Aldham

Dates: fl. 1586

A sixteenth-century member of the Tey family recorded as holder of the Aldham court on 19 July 1586.

William the Norman, Bishop of London, 1051–1075, 1199–1221

Dates: Bishop of London, 1051–1075; died 1075

William the Norman was Bishop of London from 1051 until his death in 1075, spanning the final years of Edward the Confessor's reign and the Norman Conquest.

William Theakston, Knight, voucher in the recovery of the manors of Bedall and Ascough

Dates: flourished 1638

William Theakston and his wife Dorothy were named as vouchers in Richard Peirse's 1638 recovery concerning the manors of Bedall and Ascough. The Theakston family held the relevant…

William Thomas, Justice of the peace, sheriff of Caernarfonshire 1580-1581, Member of Parliament for Caernarfonshire in 1574 and 1584

Dates: 1551-1586

William Thomas was a soldier and landed gentleman who served in Ireland and Flanders and was reportedly killed at Zutphen in 1586. He inherited the Thomas estates in…

William Thomas, Justice of the peace, sheriff of Caernarfonshire 1637-1638, Member of Parliament for Caernarfon

Dates: Died March 1654

William Thomas inherited the Aber estate from his father, was a Royalist during the Civil Wars, and was disabled from sitting in Parliament after joining the King's forces.…

William Thornton of East Newton

Dates: will dated 28 August 1487; probate recorded as 17 March 1488–1489 in secondary discussion of the pedigree

William Thorold, High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, associated lord of Grayingham

Dates: fl. 16th century

William Thursby, Esquire, purchaser and holder of Abington Manor

Dates: Circa 1630 to 1701 according to the published descent

A Northamptonshire landowner who purchased Abington Manor from Sir John Bernard in 1669 and substantially rebuilt and enlarged the manor house.

William Treget

William Trenchard of Cutteridge, Owner of Cutteridge and holder of the Abbots Leigh manor estate by right of his wife

Dates: dates uncertain; active by the early eighteenth century

Member of the Trenchard family of Cutteridge, Wiltshire, who acquired the Abbots Leigh interest through marriage to a Norton heiress according to Historic England.

William Troutbeck, Manorial holder of Dunham, lessee and later owner, Knight, lord of Dunham, claimant of forest and manorial liberties, Guardian of Marjery Holes

Dates: fl. early to mid-15th century

Held a lease of part of the Dunham lordship during the reign of Henry V and had acquired the whole manor by 1444, according to the registry record.

William Trussell, son of John Trussell

William Turton

William Vavasour, Mesne lord of Addingham, the historical sources also identify a William le Vavasour as a significant Yorkshire landholder and royal justice.

Dates: fl. 1166

William Vavasour was a prominent twelfth-century Yorkshire landholder and royal justice. In 1166 he is recorded as the single mesne lord of both parts of Addingham.

William Venables of Agden

Dates: Flourished around 1401

Member of the Venables family who acquired the Daniel-Aketon moiety of Agden by settlement from Ellen, widow of Thomas Warburton.