George Wandesford

George Wandesford (1573-1612) was an English landowner.
==Life==
Born on 20 May 1573, he was a son of Christopher Wandesford (died 1590) and Elizabeth Bowes, a daughter of George Bowes of Streatlam. His family home was at Kirklington in Yorkshire.The Visitation of the Country of Yorke by William Dugdale (London, 1859), p. 100. After the death of Christopher Wandesford, Elizabeth married Thomas Preston of Holker.Hardy Bertram McCall, Story of the family of Wandesforde (London, 1904), p. 58.
He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and became known as George Wandesford of Sleningford, from an estate near Tanfield that came from his marriage to an heiress, Catherine Hansby. He sold several properties during his lifetime. Following his first marriage, he lived at Hansby House at Bishop Burton.Hardy Bertram McCall, Story of the family of Wandesforde (London, 1904), p. 59.
Wandesford joined the military expedition of the Earl of Essex to Spain and the Azores in 1597.Hardy Bertram McCall, Story of the family of Wandesforde (London, 1904), p. 59.
==Hipswell and the Metcalfe case==
George Wandesford restored Hipswell Hall, where his initials "GW 1596" are carved at the entrance.Harry Speight, Romantic Richmondshire (London, 1897), p. 118.Hipswell Hall, English Heritage He obtained this house and estate from a relation following a failed plot in 1601 to marry the heir, Christopher Wandesford, to a servant or milk-maid Cecily or Catherine Metcalfe.William Page, The Victoria History of the County of York, North Riding (London, 1914), p. 136: Mary Anne Everett Green, Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1603-1610 (London, 1857), p. 436. The wardship of Christopher Wandesford, who was judged incapable in law despite Cecily's protests, was granted to Robert Pamplin, an officer of the royal wardrobe. The couple were divorced, due to Christopher's "incapacity",Autobiography of Alice Thornton (London, 1875), pp. 317-321. and ownership of Hipswell passed to George Wandesford.Hardy Bertram McCall, Story of the family of Wandesforde (London, 1904), pp. 59-62
==Later life and death==
Wandesford was knighted at Whitehall Palace in April 1607.William Arthur Shaw, The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time, vol. 2 (London, 1870), p. 142.
By William Arthur Shaw He died on 11 September 1612 and was buried at St Andrew Holborn.Hardy Bertram McCall, Story of the family of Wandesforde (London, 1904), table
==Marriages and children==
He married (1) Catherine Hansby, daughter of Ralph Hansby of Beverley and Gray's Inn, and (2) Mary Pamplin, a daughter of Robert Pamplin of Lymington, the officer in the Great Wardrobe of Elizabeth I, who rose from being a page involved in the queen's linen laundry to be yeoman of the robes for James VI and I,Janet Arnold, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (Maney, 1988), p. 325. and had been involved in the Hipswell litigation. George's brother, William Wandesford, married her sister, Margaret Pamplin. Pamplin's widow and daughters had a valuable grant of lands and marshes near Portsmouth Harbour in 1625 which came to the Wandesford family.The Visitation of the Country of Yorke, p. 100: John Bruce, Calendar State Papers Domestic, 1625-1626 (London, 1858), p. 421.
His children with Catherine Hansby included:
* Christopher Wandesford (1592-1640), father of the autobiographical writer Alice Thornton.Autobiography of Alice Thornton (London, 1875), p. 2.
* John Wandesford (1593–1665)
* Michael Wandesford (died 1637), Dean of Londonderry
Category:1573 births
Category:English people
Category:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Category:Landowners
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