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Note for:   Wiliam Adam Mundell,   29 SEP 1815 - 15 JUL 1875         Index
Occupation:   
     Place:   Barrister and Queens Counci
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Note for:   William Daines,   UNKNOWN -          Index
Occupation:   
     Date:   1700
     Place:   Mayor of Bristol
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Note for:   Stephen Walker,   UNKNOWN -          Index
Occupation:   
     Date:   1845
     Place:   Currier
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Note for:   Frank Adcock,   10 AUG 1844 - 1899          Index
a solicitor and breeder of Bulldogs - he imported the Spanish Bulldog to E ngland in 1885

became Legal Advisor to the King of Swaziland

He was the legal representative of Queen Victoria to the Paramount Chi ef of Swaziland. (A Q.C. equivalent) and took a hard line towards the Boer s. He was murdered by them and then his house was ransacked and burnt dow n, and he was buried 'somewhere in the hills'. A grave has never been foun d.

Helen Mound
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Note for:   John Blundell,   UNKNOWN -          Index
Manors and other estates
In 1086 Robert d'Oilly held KIDLINGTON in demesne, (fn. 91) and the man or descended with his barony of Hook Norton to his brother Niel (d. c. 111 5), to Niel's son Robert (d. 1142), and to Robert's son (d. 1163), grands on (d. 1196), and great-grandson, all called Henry d'Oilly. The last Henr y, who c. 1200 alienated detached woodland in the extraparochial area Osn ey Hill, died without issue in 1232, and Kidlington was held in dower by h is widow Maud (d. 1261) and her second husband William de Cauntelo. (fn. 9 2) Margaret de Newburgh, countess of Warwick, niece of the last Henry d'Oi lly and after 1242 his heir, died without issue in 1253, (fn. 93) but t he reversion of Kidlington, which had escheated to the Crown on her deat h, was granted to her husband John de Plessis, who entered on the man or on Maud de Cauntelo's death. (fn. 94) John de Plessis died in 1263 a nd was succeeded by his son Hugh who in 1279 held the manor in demes ne of the king in chief. (fn. 95) Hugh was succeeded by his son (d. 1301 ), grandson (d. 1337), and great-grandson (d. 1349), all called Hugh de Pl essis. (fn. 96) On the death of the last Hugh, Kidlington passed in dow er to his widow Elizabeth and her second husband Roger Elmbridge. (fn. 9 7) Hugh de Plessis's brother and heir John died without issue in 1354 a nd the reversion of Kidlington passed to his sister Eleanor, wife of Jo hn Lenveysey, and to her son John Lenveysey, who entered on the manor at E lizabeth Elmbridge's death in 1379 but himself died without issue in 138 0. (fn. 98) Kidlington was again held in dower, by John Lenveysey's wid ow Elizabeth who married Philip de la Vache. (fn. 99) In 1381, William Mol yns, who held the reversion of Kidlington under a settlement made by the y ounger John Lenveysey in 1374, conveyed it to four men who seem to have be en feoffees for Richard Adderbury, who acquired a life interest in the man or on the death of Elizabeth de la Vache in 1414. (fn. 1) By 1428 Thomas C haucer held 1 knight's fee in Kidlington, formerly held by Hugh de Plessi s, which he had presumably acquired from the Adderburys. (fn. 2) He di ed in 1434, and the manor passed to his wife Maud and then to his daught er Alice, wife of William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk. (fn. 3) Kidlingt on was among the manors forfeited by Alice's grandson Edmund de la Pole, e arl of Suffolk, in 1501. (fn. 4) In 1510 it was granted to Thomas Howar d, Lord Howard, and his wife Anne (d. 1511), daughter of Edward IV, in exc hange for her share in her father's lands. (fn. 5)
The manor was in the king's hands in 1532; it seems later to have been he ld by Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, but in 1546 the king grant ed it to Leonard Chamberlain and John Blundell. (fn. 6) It then followed t he descent of Steeple Barton, (fn. 7) being divided among Blundell's fi ve daughters, Anne Cordell, Elizabeth Hogan, Mary Croker, Theodora Champne ys, and Susan Freston. In 1610 Elizabeth's son Thomas Hogan bought Mary 's fifth of the manor from her son John Croker; after that Anne and Sus an died without issue and their shares were divided among the issue of t he other three sisters. Theodora's son Richard Champneys, who had earli er sold his fifth of the manor, sold his third part of the two fifths of t he manor to Gresham Hogan, brother and successor of Thomas. Gresham thus h eld two thirds of the manor, which passed, with Steeple Barton, to his dau ghter Elizabeth and her husband Thomas Waller, who devised it to his young est daughter Dorothy. Dorothy married John James, and Kidlington pass ed to their son Hogan who sold it to Thomas Paynton. Paynton died in 177 3, devising the manor, then consisting only of quitrents, to trustees f or sale. (fn. 8) It seems to have been bought by Joseph Smith of the Bayl ey manor in Kidlington, and passed with that estate to William Bulley, w ho in 1810 sold it to the duke of Marlborough. (fn. 9) The dukes were reco rded as lords of the manor throughout the 19th century and the early 20t h, (fn. 10) but by then manorial rights had lapsed. From: 'Kidlington: Ma nors and other estates', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12: Woo tton Hundred (South) including Woodstock (1990), pp. 188-94. URL: http://w ww.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=10788. Date accessed: 11 Apr il 2007.