Adderley, Humphrey (1512–1598), courtier, was born at Blake Hall, the family home, near Cheadle, Staffordshire, the fourth of seven children of Thomas Adderley (c.1480–1538), gentleman and landowner, and his wife, Joan, daughter of John and Elizabeth Thirkill of Smallwood, Cheshire. The ...
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Adderley, Humphrey (1512–1598), courtier
Alan F. Cook
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Adeane, Michael Edward, Baron Adeane (1910–1984)
Maker: Godfrey Argent
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Michael Edward Adeane, Baron Adeane (1910–1984) by Godfrey Argent, 1969 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Adeane, Michael Edward, Baron Adeane (1910–1984), courtier
Edward Ford
Adeane, Michael Edward, Baron Adeane (1910–1984), courtier, was born on 30 September 1910 in London, the only son of Captain Henry Robert Augustus Adeane of the Coldstream Guards, who was killed in action in 1914, and his wife, Victoria Eugenie (d. 1969)...
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Archer, Thomas (1668/9–1743), architect and courtier
Andor Gomme
Archer, Thomas (1668/9–1743), architect and courtier, was born at Umberslade Hall, Tanworth in Arden, Warwickshire, the youngest son of Thomas Archer (1617/18–1685), and his wife, Anne (1632/3–1685). His father was a country gentleman who had held a colonelcy in the parliamentary army and at the Restoration became MP for the county; his grandfather ...
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Armorer, Sir Nicholas (c. 1620–1686), royalist army officer, conspirator, and courtier
Geoffrey Smith
Armorer, Sir Nicholas (c. 1620–1686), royalist army officer, conspirator, and courtier, was born at Belford, Northumberland, a younger son of Thomas Armorer (d. 1642), of Belford, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Robert Clavering of Callaly in the same county. Like his brother ...
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Ashburnham, John (1602/3–1671), courtier and politician
Sean Kelsey
Ashburnham, John (1602/3–1671), courtier and politician, was the eldest son of Sir John Ashburnham (1570/71–1620) and Elizabeth (1577–1651), daughter of Sir Thomas Beaumont. William Ashburnham, army officer and politician, was his younger brother. He was educated at Gray's Inn and Peterhouse, Cambridge. His father died in 1620, having wasted his estate and leaving his family in penury. But within two years his heir had so far repaired their broken fortune, that (says the epitaph in ...
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Ashton, John (c. 1653–1691), official in the royal household and Jacobite conspirator
Paul Hopkins
Ashton, John (c. 1653–1691), official in the royal household and Jacobite conspirator, was the son of Andrew Ashton (d. 1679), of Liverpool, and his wife, Alice. His father was apparently a parliamentarian army officer, though from the royalist family of Ashton of ...
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Astley, John (c. 1507–1596)
Maker: unknown Netherlandish artist
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John Astley (c. 1507–1596) by unknown Netherlandish artist, 1555 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Astley, John (c. 1507–1596), courtier
Charlotte Merton
Astley, John (c. 1507–1596), courtier, was the eldest son of Thomas Astley (d. in or after 1514), landowner, of Hill Morton and Melton Constable, Norfolk, and his second wife, Anne (d. in or after 1508), daughter and coheir of John Wood...
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Astley [née Champernowne], Katherine (d. 1565), courtier
Charlotte Merton
Astley [née Champernowne], Katherine (d. 1565), courtier, was the daughter of Sir Philip Champernowne (d. 1545), landowner, of Modbury, Devon, and his wife, Katherine, daughter of Sir Edmund Carew of Mohun's Ottery, Devon, and his wife, Katherine. She was related by marriage to all the leading gentry families of the west country. Nothing is known of her early life, although her distinctive, if old-fashioned, hand, her lifelong association with the reformed religion, and her key role in the education of ...
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Ayscough, Francis (1701–1763), courtier and Church of England clergyman
M. St John Parker
Ayscough, Francis (1701–1763), courtier and Church of England clergyman, was born in Surrey on 19 December 1701 and baptized on 25 December in St Olave's, Southwark, the second son of Gabriel Ayscough (bap. 1668) and his wife, Mary. He was educated at ...
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Ayton, Sir Robert (1570–1638)
Maker: Francesco Fanelli
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Sir Robert Ayton (1570–1638) by Francesco Fanelli © Dean and Chapter of Westminster
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Ayton, Sir Robert (1570–1638), poet and courtier
Harriet Harvey Wood
Ayton, Sir Robert (1570–1638), poet and courtier, was born at the castle of Kinaldie, near St Andrews, Fife, the second of four sons, to Andrew Ayton (d. 1589), landowner, and his wife, Mariona London or Lundie, daughter of the laird of Balgonie...
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Baring, Rowland Thomas, second earl of Cromer (1877–1953), courtier
John Gore
revised by K. D. Reynolds
Baring, Rowland Thomas, second earl of Cromer (1877–1953), courtier, was born on 29 November 1877 at Cairo. He was the elder son of Evelyn Baring, later first earl of Cromer (1841–1917), diplomat, and his first wife, Ethel Stanley (d. 1898), second daughter of ...
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Basset, Thomas (d. 1220), soldier and courtier
Nicholas Vincent
Basset, Thomas (d. 1220), soldier and courtier, was a younger son of Thomas Basset (d. c. 1182) of Headington and Adeliza Basset [see under Dunstanville, de, family], daughter of Walter de Dunstanville, lord of Castle Combe in Wiltshire. First recorded before ...
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Bassett, James (c. 1526–1558), courtier
Sarah Clayton
Bassett, James (c. 1526–1558), courtier, was described as being about twenty-four in January 1551. He was the third son of Sir John Bassett (1462–1528), landowner, of Umberleigh in Devon, and his second wife, Honor Grenville (1493×5–1566), daughter of Sir Thomas Grenville of Stowe, Cornwall...
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Baynton, Sir Edward (c. 1495–1544)
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Beauclerk [née Lovelace], Martha [Lady Henry Beauclerk] (bap. 1710, d. 1788), courtier
E. H. Chalus
Beauclerk [née Lovelace], Martha [Lady Henry Beauclerk] (bap. 1710, d. 1788), courtier, was baptized on 14 January 1710 in St James's, Westminster, the only daughter and the fifth of the five children of John Lovelace, fourth Baron Lovelace (d. 1709) [see under...
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Beaumont, John, first Viscount Beaumont (1409?–1460), magnate and courtier
John Watts
Beaumont, John, first Viscount Beaumont (1409
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Berkeley, Charles, earl of Falmouth (bap. 1630, d. 1665), courtier
Ronald Hutton
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Berkeley, Charles, earl of Falmouth (bap. 1630, d. 1665), courtier, was baptized on 11 January 1630 at Bruton Abbey, Somerset, the second son of Charles Berkeley, second Baron Berkeley of Rathdowne, second Viscount Fitzhardinge of Berehaven (1599–1668), politician, and his wife, Penelope (...
