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William Warner, Steward of Sir John Tichborne
Dates: floruit 1409
The trusted steward of Sir John Tichborne who received a grant of lands, tenements, woods, meadows, rents, services and a water mill in Dorsetshire in 1409.
View historical person →William Watson, Physician and electrical investigator, Fellow of the Royal Society, knighted 1786
Dates: 1715–1787
English physician and pioneer investigator of electricity, associated with experiments transmitting electrical effects over long distances and with Benjamin Franklin. He acquired Ellington in 1771 and held it…
View historical person →William Webb, Recorded Lord of Acomb Manor
Dates: flourished 1654
William Webb is named in the Acomb court-roll summary as a private holder of the manorial lordship in 1654.
View historical person →William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford, English peer
Dates: 1722–1791
Member of the Wentworth family associated with Snape; the registry narrative states that the manor continued through him and records the extinction of the earldom in 1799, though…
View historical person →Reverend William Whitaker, Lord of Motcombe
Dates: died 1809
Son of Narcissus Whitaker and nephew of Walter Whitaker; he held Motcombe and died unmarried in 1809.
View historical person →William Whitmore
Joint grantee of Abbas Hall with John Verdon in 1612.
View historical person →William Whitmore and John Verdon, Grantees of Abbas Hall Manor in 1612
The consulted source identifies them only as joint grantees of the manor in 1612; no reliable individual biographies were located.
View historical person →William Whorwood, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General of England, Chief Steward of Vale Royal Abbey
Dates: died 1545
English lawyer and Crown officer who became solicitor-general in 1536 and attorney-general under Henry VIII. He acquired substantial Midland property, including Pillerton Hersey, in 1542.
View historical person →William Wildman Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington
Dates: 1717–1793
Barrington peer and estate holder who succeeded John Barrington and made a settlement of Beckett in 1740.
View historical person →William Williams
Dates: Not established from the source reviewed
The surviving catalogue entry identifies William Williams as an assignee of the Duchy of Lancaster lease but does not provide a sufficiently secure biography.
View historical person →William Willoughby and William Cherry, Willoughby of Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, Cherry of Maidenhead, Berkshire
Dates: Dates not established in the consulted manor source
Named in John Whitfeild's will as devisees and intended sellers of Aldington Manor to discharge a debt.
View historical person →William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, major Lincolnshire landowner, associated with Grimsthorpe and Parham.
Dates: Born 1482; succeeded in 1499; died 14 October 1526
Elder son of Christopher Willoughby and Margaret Jenney. He succeeded to the de Eresby barony in 1499. His first marriage was to Mary Hussey, daughter of Sir William…
View historical person →William Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby of Parham, 6th Baron Willoughby of Parham in conventional numbering, governor and vice-admiral of Barbados and the Caribbee Islands, commissioner and local militia officer., 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham, Member of Parliament for Midhurst in the Convention Parliament, Commissioner for Plantations, Governor of Barbados, 1667–1673, 3rd Baron Willoughby of Parham from 1603, knighted by James I in 1603, commissioner at the Somerset trials in 1616., Governor and Captain-General of Barbados and the Caribbee Islands from 1667, vice-admiral of the same territories., Member of Parliament for Midhurst in 1660, keeper of Bestwood Park, deputy lieutenant of Hertfordshire, militia colonel, Captain-General and Governor of Barbados and the Caribbee Islands from 1667, Vice-Admiral of Barbados and associated territories., MP for Midhurst in 1660, commissioner connected with the trials of the Earl and Countess of Somerset in 1616.
Dates: 3 August 1615–10 April 1673
Younger brother and successor of Francis Willoughby. He inherited the barony in 1666 and secured appointment as governor of Barbados and the Caribbee Islands in 1667. He died…
View historical person →William Willoughby, eldest son of Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham, Heir apparent to the Parham barony, associated with the senior landed family in Lincolnshire.
Dates: died 1 June 1601
William was the eldest son of Charles Willoughby and Margaret Clinton but predeceased his father. His death caused the barony to pass directly to his son William, later…
View historical person →William Winstanley, purchaser of the Chaigley estate or component
Dates: nineteenth century
Nineteenth-century purchaser identified in the historical account as acquiring Chaigley about 1840.
View historical person →William Wollaston
William Wollaston is recorded in the manorial-court history as holder of Stowmarket or Abbotts Hall by 1765.
View historical person →William Woodman, elder generation
Dates: recorded after Richard Woodman; exact dates unknown
William Woodman is identified as the son and successor of Richard Woodman in the descent of Aglonds More.
View historical person →William Woodman, younger generation
Dates: sixteenth or seventeenth century; exact dates unknown
The younger William Woodman is recorded in the descent of Aglonds More, married Winifred Balam, and was succeeded by his second son Richard Woodman.
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