Alan de Acton

Dates: Active during the reign of Edward I, 1272-1307

Alan de Acton is recorded as doing homage at Vale Royal for lands at Acton during the reign of Edward I.

Alan de Aldefelde, Lord of Aldfield, subject of an inquisition post mortem

Dates: fl. 1277

Alan de Aldefelde was a medieval Yorkshire landholder recorded in an inquisition post mortem of 1277 in connection with Aldfield.

Alan de Copeland

Dates: fl. reign of Henry II

A Cumberland landholder who held lands in Santon, Irton and Bolton under Thomas Multon of Gilsland during the reign of Henry II.

Alan de Dunstanvill, Norman landholder and progenitor of the Dunstanvill Shropshire fief

Dates: fl. early twelfth century

An early twelfth-century Norman landholder who acquired a substantial Shropshire fief, including the estate later centred on Adderley.

Alan de Warenestre

Alan Fitz Rohald

Alan FitzRoald

Alan Hulton

Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby, feudal lord of Ashby de la Zouch, military servant of the Crown, Baron la Zouche of Ashby by writ from 1299, governor or constable of Rockingham Castle, steward or keeper of Rockingham Forest, royal military servant in Gascony and Scotland.

Dates: 1267–1314

Alan was the only son of Roger la Zouche and Ela Longespée and represented the senior Ashby branch of the Zouche family. His red bezanty arms are preserved…

Alan Malherbe

Alan son of Flaad, Ancestor of the FitzAlan family, feudal landholder

Dates: fl. before 1086

Norman landholder and progenitor of the FitzAlan dynasty, associated with estates granted after the Norman Conquest.

Alban de Wandsworth

Dates: flourished in the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century

Holder of the East Peckham manor later known as Albans or Wymplingbury. Hasted associates the origin of the manor name with Alban de Wandsworth's probable residence there.

Alban George Henry Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham, MP for the City of London, 1892–1906, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 2nd Baron Aldenham from 13 September 1907., 3rd Baron Aldenham from 9 May 1936, educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.

Dates: 23 April 1846 – 9 May 1936

Alban was the eldest son of Henry Hucks Gibbs. He married Bridget Beresford-Hope in 1873 and succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Aldenham in 1907. He was succeeded…

Albany Featherstonehaugh, Knight, High Sheriff of Northumberland, appointed 1560

Dates: fl. reign of Elizabeth I

A Featherstonehaugh landowner who owned Softley during the reign of Elizabeth I and held considerable lands in Northumberland and Cumbria. He was appointed High Sheriff of Northumberland in…

Alberic de Coci

Dates: 1086

Alcher, also styled Aherius or Aher, Domesday landholder of Etbritone, described by Eyton as an ancestor of Fitz Aer

Dates: Late eleventh century; exact dates unknown

An eleventh-century Shropshire landholder associated with Albrighton. The principal evidence for him is the Domesday entry and the charter tradition recording his donation of Albrighton to Shrewsbury Abbey.

Aldred Escott, Somerset landowner

Dates: Active c. 1719

Member of the Escott family who acquired the documented lordship and freehold rents of Alcombe about 1719.

Aldworth-Nevilles, Barons Braybrooke

Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel, collector and heiress

Dates: 1585–1654

Daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, and wife of Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel; the record identifies her as the successor to Kimberworth.

Alexander Armstrong

Alexander Baring, Banker, financier and politician, created Baron Ashburton in 1835, 1st Baron Ashburton

Dates: 27 October 1773-13 May 1848

Alexander Baring was a leading English banker and landowner who acquired the Abbotstone estate in the late 1810s and was created Baron Ashburton in 1835.

Alexander Colepeper, Of Leeds Castle

Dates: floruit 1668

Joint purchaser of Arreton with Cheyney Colepeper in 1668.

Alexander de Ellingham

Alexander de Featherstonehaugh

Dates: fl. 1366

A member of the Featherstonehaugh family recorded in possession of Softley in 1366. He was succeeded by his son Thomas before 1369.