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Their son Sir Richard Berney, 1st Baronet (died 1668) was created a baronet in 1620. Another son Thomas Berney was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1647 and the ancestor of the Berneys of Morton Hall in Broadland, Norfolk. [1] The 1st Baronet married Anne Smallpage of Chichester. He left all his estates in Reedham not to his eldest son and heir, the ...
Statue of Lord Nelson in the Upper Close. Old Norvicensians (ONs) are former pupils of Norwich School, an independent co-educational day public school in Norwich, England.It was founded in 1096 as an episcopal school by the first Bishop of Norwich, Herbert de Losinga, and is one of the longest surviving schools in the United Kingdom.
Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806–1881) was a historian and author, and owner and editor of Norfolk's American Beacon newspaper. Robert M. Hughes (1855–1940) was a Virginia lawmaker who served as a president of The Virginia Bar Association and helped to establish what would become Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Oliver Le Neve was born in 1662 to Francis Le Neve (d.1681), a London draper and upholsterer at Cornhill, and Avice, his wife, who was daughter to city merchant Peter Wright. Francis Le Neve, who may have been brought to London by his Norfolk kinsman William Le Neve , owned a modest amount of London property, warehouses and shops.
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Robert Gurney was born in 1879 as the fourth son of John Gurney (1845–1887) and Isabel Charlotte Gurney (later Baroness Talbot de Malahide) of Sprowston Hall, Norfolk.He went to school at Eton College, and went on to study at New College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in 1902. [1]
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Henry Heydon was the son of John Heydon (d.1479) of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, and Eleanor Winter, the daughter of Edmund Winter (d.1448) of Barningham, Norfolk. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Trained as a lawyer, he frequently advised other Norfolk landowners and acted for them as a feoffee and arbitrator.