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	Thornbury Castle
	A history of the Manor and Castle

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Meet the Castle Builder.

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A holders family tree

A history of the castle

Once a manor house

Other castles

How it might have looked

Paintings of the castle

An owner's timeline

A plan of the castle

A modern hotel

Sir Algar a local hero

The families:

Centuries:

Pevious holders			Next holders

Henry Howard	Edward Howard	Alagr Howard	Kenneth Bell	Maurice Taylor
1824	1875	1916	1966	1986
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(2) Sir Major Algar HOWARD

1880-1970

Posts held: MP for Thornbury; Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary; Held the offices of Windsor Herald; Norroy King of Arms; Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire; Ulster King of Arms; Garter King of Arms; Extra Gentleman Usher to HM King George VI; Extra Gentleman Usher to HM Queen Elizabeth II; Justice of the Peace for Gloucestershire. Genealogist for the Order of the Bath.

Career: Entitled to practice as a barrister, admitted to the Inner Temple 1905.

The manor & castle: Howard inherited the manor & castle from his father. The last person to inherit the castle & estate. He held it between 1916-66.

University: Kings College, London

Miltary career: Served with the Gloucestershire Yeomanry; Major in British Army.

Awarded: The Military Cross.

Honoured: Knight Order of the Bath.

Father Edward Stafford-Howard.

Mother Rachel Campbell.

Further information: Read more about Algar on the Internet.

Violet MEYSEY-THOMPSON

1886-1960

Family: 2 daughters.

Marriage: Violet married twice.

Father Henry Meysey-Thompson, Baron Knaresborough.

Mother Ethel Pottinger.

Daughters Anne; Elizabeth.

Violet also married

(1) Alexander VANDERLEUR

c.1886-1914

Died in action: Captain, 2nd Life Guards, who was killed in action at Zandvoorde during the First Battle of Ypres on 30 October 1914.

Father John Vandeleur

Mother Charlotte Foster

Son Giles

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	?