Barry, James (c. 1799–1865), army medical officer and transvestite, was probably born Margaret, the youngest daughter of Mrs Mary Ann Bulkley or Bulkeley, the sister of the artist James Barry; her paternity is in doubt. From the age of ten she dressed and presented herself as a man, but the woman who laid out her corpse declared that she was female: '...
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Bréauté, Sir Falkes de (d. 1226), soldier and royal favourite, was of obscure Norman parentage. One reasonably reliable source, which described him as 'small in stature but very valiant', stated that he was the son of a Norman knight by a concubine (...
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Camoys, Thomas, Baron Camoys (c. 1350–1420/21), administrator and soldier, was the son of John Camoys and heir of his uncle Thomas, Lord Camoys. The uncle died on 11 April 1372, and his lands were given to the heir on 12 October. Camoys served with the retinue of his kinsman ...
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S. J. Gunn
Daubeney, Giles, first Baron Daubeney (1451/2–1508), administrator, soldier, and diplomat, was the elder son and heir of Sir William Daubeney (1424–1461) [see under Daubeney family] of South Petherton, Somerset, and his wife, Alice (b. 1432), third daughter and coheir of ...
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Donne [Dwn], Sir John (d. 1503), soldier and administrator, was descended from the Donne family of Kidwelly. His forebears were active soldiers, and John is said to have been born in Picardy, where his father, Gruffudd Donne (d. in or before 1448)...
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Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine (1330–1376), heir to the English throne and military commander, was the eldest son of Edward III (1312–1377) and Philippa of Hainault (1310x15?–1369).
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Simon Walker
Erpingham, Sir Thomas (c. 1355–1428), soldier, was the son of Sir John Erpingham of Erpingham and Wickmere, Norfolk, the head of an established East Anglian gentry family. His early career was a military one. In September 1368 he accompanied his father to Aquitaine...
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Fitzalan, John, seventh earl of Arundel (1408–1435), soldier, was born on 14 February 1408 at Lytchett Matravers, Dorset. He was the son of John (V) Fitzalan, Baron Maltravers (d. 21 April 1421) and Eleanor (d. 1455), daughter of Sir John Berkeley...
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G. L. Harriss
Fitzalan, Thomas, fifth earl of Arundel and tenth earl of Surrey (1381–1415), soldier and administrator, was the second son and heir of Richard (III) Fitzalan, fourth earl of Arundel and ninth earl of Surrey, and Elizabeth de Bohun (d. 1385). On the execution and forfeiture of his father in 1397, the honour of ...
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Hastings, Sir Hugh (c. 1310–1347), administrator and soldier, was the second son of John Hastings, first Lord Hastings (1262–1313), and his second wife, Isabel, daughter of Hugh Despenser the elder, earl of Winchester (1261–1326). He married, before 18 May 1330, Margery Foliot (...
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Kenneth Fowler
Hawkwood, Sir John (d. 1394), military commander, was the second son of Gilbert Hawkwood, a tanner and minor landowner at Sible Hedingham, Essex, where the family had held land since the beginning of the thirteenth century. The date of his birth is not recorded, but he was evidently in his early manhood by the time of his father's death in 1340, since, along with his elder brother, also called ...
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W. M. Ormrod
Henry of Lancaster [Henry of Grosmont], first duke of Lancaster (c. 1310–1361), soldier and diplomat, was the son of Henry, third earl of Lancaster (c. 1280–1345), and Maud Chaworth (d. 1317×22).
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Johnys, Sir Hugh (b. c. 1410, d. in or after 1485), soldier and administrator, was descended from a cadet branch of the Vaughans of Bredwardine, Herefordshire. Nothing is known of his career before 1436 (when, given the date of his death, he was still a young man). According to his memorial brass in ...
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Kenny, Elizabeth (1880–1952), nurse and specialist in the treatment of polio, was born on 20 September 1880 at Kelly's Gully, near Warialda, New South Wales, Australia, the daughter of Michael Kenny, an Irish immigrant farm labourer, and his wife, Mary, formerly Moore. Kenny...
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Michael Jones
Knolles [Knollys], Sir Robert (d. 1407), soldier, was probably the son of Richard, who was of burgess or yeoman stock from Tushingham in the parish of Malpas, Cheshire. His mother is frequently named as Eva Calveley, sister of Sir Hugh Calveley, with whom ...
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C. L. Kingsford
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Loring, Sir Neil [Nigel] (c. 1315–1386), soldier and administrator, was the son of Roger Loring of Chalgrave, Bedfordshire, and Cassandra, daughter of Reginald Perot. The family seems to have been established there since the twelfth century, and Sir Piers Loring served in Edward I's...
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David Crouch
Marshal, William [called the Marshal], fourth earl of Pembroke (c. 1146–1219), soldier and administrator, was the son of John Marshal (d. 1165) and Sybil (fl. c.1146–c.1156), daughter of Walter of Salisbury. He is one of the few medieval laymen to be the subject of a biography, ...
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Montagu, Thomas [Thomas de Montacute], fourth earl of Salisbury (1388–1428), soldier, was the elder son of John Montagu, third earl of Salisbury (d. 1400), and his wife, Maud Montagu (d. 1424), daughter of Adam Fraunceys, mayor of London, and widow of John Aubrey...
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C. L. Kingsford
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Northwood, John, first Lord Northwood (1254–1319), soldier and administrator, the son of Roger of Northwood, was born on 24 June 1254 and succeeded his father in December 1285. In 1291–2 he was employed on a commission of oyer and terminer in Kent; he was also sheriff of ...
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Pembridge, Sir Richard (c. 1320–1375), soldier and administrator, was descended from one of the collateral branches of the Pembridge family, whose main line had been established in Herefordshire from the reign of Stephen. He rose from relative obscurity to become a Garter knight of ...
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