Through his mother's assiduous endeavours, he made two materially advantageous marriages to wealthy heiresses-his first wife being Anne Holland ( daughter of the King's sister, Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter ), and his second wife, Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington.

Cecily was born on or around 30 June 1460, and was the daughter and heiress of William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington by his wife Katherine Neville.

Katherine's first husband, William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington, had been killed at the Battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460, leaving her with a six-month old daughter, Cecily, who succeeded to the Bonville titles and estates.

On 29 August 1611, at St. Mary-le-Strand, Middlesex, he married his second wife, Elizabeth Noel ( d. 1644 ), the daughter of Sir Andrew Noel ( d. 1607 ) and his wife, née Mabel Harington.

" Here under lies the body of Dame Jane, daughter of Sir William Samwell Knight, & late wife to Sir Sapcotes Harington ( sic ) of Milton Knight, by whom he had issue 2 sons & 3 daughters, viz James, William, Jane, Anne & Elizabeth.

All agree that he married Cecily, Marchioness of Dorset ( 1460-12 May 1529 ), daughter of William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington, and widow of Wiltshire's first cousin Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset ( c. 1456 – 1501 ).

He was betrothed to Lady Cecily Grey ( a daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, by Cecily, his wife, suo jure Baroness Harington and Baroness Bonville ) by 30 October 1501, whom he subsequently married.

She was the daughter of James Harington of Exton, Rutland, a lawyer and long-serving MP.

He married Isabell Harington, daughter of Robert de Harington.

Within a year of his first wife's death, Zouche married again, to Sarah, daughter of Sir James Harington.

In 1640 Sir James Harington, 3rd Baronet married Katherine, daughter of Sir Edmund Wright, Lord Mayor of London.

He married Lucy Harington, daughter of John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton, on 12 December 1594, bringing him £ 10, 000 and the estate of Minster Lovell.

Salisbury's fourth son Sir Thomas Neville, and his son in law William, Lord Harington, also died in the battle.

James Harrington was born in 1611 in Upton, Northamptonshire, eldest son of Sir Sapcote ( s ) Harrington of Rand, Lincolnshire who died 1629, and great-nephew of the first Lord Harington of Exton who died 1615.

Gubbins was born in Tokyo on 2 July 1896, the younger son and third child of John Harington Gubbins ( 1852 – 1929 ), Oriental Secretary at the British Legation.

Harington was born in Kelston, Somerset, England, the son of John Harington of Kelston, the poet, and his second wife Isabella Markham, a gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth I's privy chamber.

In 1662 the Crown granted letters patent placing the estate in trust, and upon Lady Katherine's death in 1675 it passed to her and Sir James ' eldest son Sir Edmund Harington, 4th Baronet.

He was the son of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset and Cecily Bonville, Baroness Harington and Bonville.

* The first water closet, by Sir John Harington, is installed in a manor near Kelston in England.

Sir John Harington, in his Orlando Furioso, bk.

William Shakespeare also speaks of Henry VIII playing at Primero with his brother-in-law Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and makes Falstaff say: " I never prospered since I forswore myself at Primero ;” and among the epigrams of Sir John Harington we have one which describes The Story of Marcus ' Life at Primero in which many of the terms of the game are majestically developed in detail.

So that, by the last quarter of the 16th century, the game of Primero had already decreased in popularity, and was gradually replaced by the Trump family game known as Maw, the favorite card game of James I, and alluded by Sir John Harington to succeeding the game of Primero.

Images from History of the School of Salernum, Harington, Sir John.

Heywood was actually arrested in a plot in 1543 to arraign Archbishop Cranmer for heresy, and even walked to the gallows, but a contemporary writer, Sir John Harington, observed that Heywood “ escaped hanging with his mirth ” ( 7 ).

Sir John Harington ( also spelled Harrington ) ( 4 August 1561 – 20 November 1612 ), of Kelston, was a courtier, author and master of art, popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet.

* The Metamorphosis Of Aiax by Sir John Harington ( 1927 ) editor with Peter Warlock

* Harington, General Sir Charles Plumer of Messines Murray, 1935

The system then remained with not much progress until the 16th century, when in England, Sir John Harington invented a device for Queen Elizabeth ( his godmother ) that released wastes into cesspools.

The title of the book is derived from an epigram of Sir John Harington.

* General Sir Charles Harington 1963 – 1966

The Harington baronets owned Merton until Sir James Harington, 6th Baronet ran up large sporting debts and in 1740 mortgaged Merton to Sir Edward Turner, 2nd Baronet of the neighbouring parish of Ambrosden.

Nevertheless it is generally assumed that he was also descended from the first Lord Harington of Aldingham, a baron in Edward II's time.

* Arthur Edward Harington Raikes, British army officer

Mathews and Cave also began to muster their forces, already commanding 900 Zanzibari askaris under Lieutenant Arthur Edward Harington Raikes of the Wiltshire Regiment who was seconded to the Zanzibar Army and held the rank of Brigadier-General.

Other rebels, aside from Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon, included Sir Henry Isley, Lord John Grey of Wilton, Lord Thomas Grey ( Henry Grey's brother ), Sir William Thomas ( Clerk of the Privy Council ), Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton, Sir Nicholas Arnold and Sir William St Loe.

* Thomas Grey, Earl of Huntingdon, Marquess of Dorset and Lord Ferrers de Groby ( 1457 – 20 September 1501 ), married firstly Anne Holland, but she died young without issue ; he married secondly on 18 July 1474, Cecily Bonville, suo jure Baroness Harington and Bonville, by whom he had fourteen children.

* c. 1596-Sir John Harington, A Treatise on Playe, in Nugae antiquae ( 1769 )

After Anne died young without issue, Thomas married on 18 July 1474, Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington of Aldingham and 2nd Baroness Bonville, the wealthiest heiress in England.

The building was returned to the MRC in autumn 1949 but Sir Henry Dale had retired in 1942 and so was never director on the new site, that job falling to his successor Sir Charles Harington.

James Harrington ( or Harington ) ( 3 January 1611 – 11 September 1677 ) was an English political theorist of classical republicanism, best known for his controversial work, The Commonwealth of Oceana ( 1656 ).

* Katherine Neville ( 1442 – 1503 ), who married first William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington, and second William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings, had issue.

Although he had studied the law, Harington was attracted early in life to the royal court, where his freespoken attitude and poetry gained Elizabeth's attention.

His attempt at a translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso caused his banishment from court for some years-Angered by the raciness of his translations the Queen told Harington that he was to leave and not return until he had translated the entire poem.