Anstey, Richard of (c. 1137–1194/5), litigant, was the son of Hubert The squire (armiger), the chamberlain of Matilda, countess of Boulogne (King Stephen's queen), and of his wife, Agnes, daughter of Richard de Sackville. Hubert held lands of the honour of ...
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Archibald James Edward Douglas, first Baron Douglas (1748–1827) by George Willison, 1769 in the collection of Lennoxlove House; photograph courtesy the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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William C. Lowe
Douglas [formerly Stewart], Archibald James Edward, first Baron Douglas (1748–1827), litigant and politician, the son of Sir John Stewart of Grandtully, third baronet (1687–1764), and his wife, Lady Jane Douglas (1698–1753), was born on 10 July 1748 at faubourg St Germain, Paris...
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Hastings, Sir Edward (1382–1438), soldier and litigant, was born on 21 May 1382 at Fenwick, Yorkshire, the second son of Sir Hugh Hastings (d. 1386/7) of Elsing, Norfolk, and great-grandson of Sir Hugh Hastings (c. 1310–1347). His father, a noted soldier, served on most of the principal campaigns of the 1370s and 1380s, and was a prominent retainer of ...
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John W. Cairns
Knight, Joseph (b. c. 1753), slave and litigant, was born in west Africa, where he was captured and sold to a Captain Knight. Captain Knight, by whose surname he was subsequently known, sold him in Jamaica, aged about thirteen, to John Wedderburn, probably in 1766. ...
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McWhirter, (Alan) Ross (1925–1975), book editor and litigant, was born in Winchmore Hill, north London, on 12 August 1925, the third and youngest son and the younger twin son (there were no daughters) of William Allan McWhirter (1888–1955), editor of the Sunday Pictorial...
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P. W. J. Bartrip
Russell, John Francis Stanley [Frank], second Earl Russell (1865–1931), politician, motorist, and litigant, was born at Alderley Park, Cheshire, on 12 August 1865, the eldest of the three children of John Russell, Viscount Amberley (1842–1876) (eldest son of the first Earl Russell, previously ...
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E. I. Carlyle
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Yelverton, William Charles, fourth Viscount Avonmore (1824–1883), army officer and litigant, born on 27 September 1824, was the eldest son of Barry John Yelverton, third Viscount Avonmore (1790–1870), and his second wife, Cecilia (d. 1 Feb 1876), eldest daughter of Charles O'Keeffe...
