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	Thornbury Castle
	A history of the Manor and Castle

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A holders family tree

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Once a manor house

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How it might have looked

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An owner's timeline

A plan of the castle

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Sir Algar a local hero

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Centuries:

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Sir Edward STAFFORD-HOWARD

1851-1916

Posts held: MP for Cumberland East; later for East Cumberland and then Thornbury; Under-Secretary of State for India; Senior Commisioner of HM's Woods & Forests; Mayor of Llanelly; Ecclesiastical Commisioner; Justice of the Peace; Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.

Career: Entitled to practice as a barrister, admitted to the Inner Temple 1875.

The manor & castle: Edward inherited the manor & castle from his father and held it between 1875-1916.

Honoured: Knight Order of the Bath.

University: He attended Trinity College, Cambridge.

Father Henry Howard.

Mother Charlotte Long.

Further information: Read more about Edward on the Internet.

Edward also married

(2) Catherine STEPNEY OBE

c.1851-1952

Honoured: Order of the British Empire.

Posts held: Justice of the Peace for Carmarthenshire.

Family: 1 daughter.

Father Sir Arthur Cowell Stepney.

Mother Margaret Warren.

Daughter Margaret.

(1) Rachel CAMPBELL

c.1851-1906

Family: 1 son 2 daughters.

Father John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor of Castlemartin.

Mother Sarah Cavendish.

Son Algar.

Ruling monarch

Victoria

A timeline of the holders of the manor and castle from Saxon times to the modern day.


Alfred the Great	Edward the Elder	Altelstan	Aelfwaerd	Aylward	Aelfgar	Brictric	Mathilda	William I	William II	Robert FitzHamon	Mabel FitzHamon	William FitzRobert	Aumarie de Montfort	Amice FitzRobert	Isobel FitzRobert	Gilbert de Clare	Richard de Clare	Gilbert de Clare	Margaret de Clare	Margaret Audley	Hugh de Stafford	Edmund Stafford	Humphrey Stafford	Humphrey Stafford
?	?	?	?	?	980	1051	1062	1070	1083	1090	1107	1157	1183	1213	1213	1225	1230	1262	1295	1342	1349	1386	1403	1460

Henry Stafford	Edward Stafford	Henry VII	Edward VI	Mary I	Henry Stafford	Ursula Pole	Henry Stafford	Edward Stafford	Edward Stafford	Henry Stafford	Mary Stafford	William Howard	Henry Stafford Howard	William Stafford Howard	Thomas Howard	Philip Howard	Edward Howard	Henry Molyneux-Howard	Henry Howard	Edward Howard	Algar Howard	Kenneth Bell	Maurice Taylor	Hotel groups
1470	1483	1521	1547	1553	1554	1554	1563	1566	1603	1625	1637	1637	1693	1719	1727	1732	1750	1777	1824	1875	1916	1966	1988	?