William Cook, Esquire, London merchant
Dates: flourished in the nineteenth century
Biography
Wealthy London merchant who purchased the Roydon Hall estate at the 1834 sale, including the manor of Albans according to the sale description. He was recorded as owner and occupier of Roydon Hall in the 1840 tithe apportionments.
Notes / Sources
Later ownership of Albans alias Wymplingbury after William Cook is not supplied because a secure manor-specific source was not located.
Research sources:
- Kent County Council Historic Environment Record, Roydon Hall, East Peckham, record TQ 65 SE 9; Wateringbury Local History Society, transcription of the 1834 Roydon Hall estate sale notice; A.R. Cook, A Manor through Four Centuries: the Roydon and Twisden Families of East Peckham, 1938, as cited by the Historic Environment Record. — https://heritage.kent.gov.uk/Monument/MKE1271
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