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Alexander de Gonalderston
Dates: fl. early 14th century
Medieval landholder who, with Alice, his wife, held Egmanton and conveyed it by fine to Ralph and Avicia de Crumbewell for successive life interests.
View historical person →Alexander de Nevill
Dates: fl. 1212
A medieval member of the Neville family recorded as holding one moiety of Ainstable in 1212.
View historical person →Alexander Every, Esquire
Member of the Every family associated with the late-sixteenth-century descent of Abbots Wootton.
View historical person →Alexander Hamilton Miller Haven Gordon, Lord of the Manor of Florida
Dates: died 1910
Alexander Hamilton Miller Haven Gordon inherited Florida Manor and its lordship after the relevant Gordon succession in 1883 and remained the sole heir to the hereditaments until his…
View historical person →Alexander Hamon, Esquire, holder of Acrise Manor
Dates: Died 1613
Kentish landholder of the Hamon family who resided at Acrise Place and died possessed of Acrise Manor in 1613.
View historical person →Alexander Jermyn
Dates: flourished in the 17th century
Alexander Jermyn was the Jermyn holder of Aldsworth who sold the manor to Lord Lumley in 1661.
View historical person →Alexander Keiller, Archaeologist, antiquarian and heir to the Keiller marmalade fortune
Dates: 1889–1955
Alexander Keiller was a Scottish heir, archaeologist and antiquarian best known for his excavations, restoration work and preservation efforts at Avebury in Wiltshire. He acquired Avebury Manor in…
View historical person →Alexander Lucas of Strandlands
Dates: floruit 1619
Holder who succeeded his father in 1619 in the descent of Strandlands in Ramsey, Essex.
View historical person →Alexander Robert Gisborne Gordon, Lieutenant-Colonel, Member of Parliament for East Down, Minister of Agriculture in the Stormont Parliament, Speaker of the Senate at Stormont, Privy Counsellor, KCMG, DSO, DL, JP
Dates: born July 1882; died 1967
Alexander Robert Gisborne Gordon succeeded his father in 1910 to the remaining property, including the Lordship of the Manor of Florida. He served in the army and later…
View historical person →Alexander Smith, Purchaser of the Coleby share in the Manor of Wensleydale or Abbotside
Dates: Active in the late seventeenth century; individual dates not established here
Alexander Smith acquired John Coleby's part of the manor in 1678.
View historical person →Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, later styled King of the Anglo-Saxons, reigned 871–899
Dates: c. 849–899
King of Wessex whose reign included the defence and consolidation of Anglo-Saxon territory and major support for learning and administration.
View historical person →Alfwy the Sheriff, associated with the royal holding at Bletchingdon
Dates: Active by 1086; exact dates unknown
An English royal official identified in the Domesday material as holding or administering the 2.5-hide Bletchingdon estate later called Adderbury's Manor. His identity beyond this local and Domesday…
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