Despite the excommunication of Bruce and his followers by Pope Clement V, his support slowly strengthened ; and by 1314 with the help of leading nobles such as Sir James Douglas and Thomas Randolph only the castles at Bothwell and Stirling remained under English control.

His parents were Sir John Randolph, the son of William Randolph, and Susannah Beverley, the daughter of Peter Beverley ; his brother was John Randolph.

* August 11 – Domhnall II, Earl of Mar, Sir Robert Keith, Thomas Randolph, 2nd Earl of Moray, Murdoch III, Earl of Menteith and Robert Bruce ( at the Battle of Dupplin Moor )

According to the DVD extras documentary for the movie The Shooting Party ( 1985 ), in the very first shot of the very first day of filming, all the male lead actors, including Paul Scofield who was playing Sir Randolph Nettleby, were to come into shot on a horse-drawn shooting brake driven by the well-known film horse-master George Mossman.

Fortunately James Mason had just finished filming Doctor Fischer of Geneva for the BBC and the schedule was changed to allow him to take over the part of Sir Randolph Nettleby six weeks later.

He was for a time politically associated with Lord Randolph Churchill, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff and John Gorst.

This quartet became known as the " Fourth Party " and gained notoriety for leader Lord Randolph Churchill's free criticism of Sir Stafford Northcote, Lord Cross and other prominent members of the " old gang ".

In 1329 the king died and the six year-old David succeeded to the throne with Sir Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray appointed Guardian of Scotland.

David Bruce, aged five, became king on 7 June 1329 on the death of his father Robert I. Walter the Steward had died earlier on 9 April 1327 and the orphaned eleven-year-old Robert was placed under the guardianship of his uncle, Sir James Stewart of Durrisdeer who along with Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, and William Lindsey, Archdeacon of St Andrews were appointed as joint Guardians of the kingdom.

During David's minority, Sir Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray was appointed Guardian of Scotland by the Act of Settlement of 1318.

His Spencer-Churchill descendants include all later Dukes of Marlborough, and their descendants, including the politicians Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Winston Churchill.

On 7 February 1954 Lord Moran, doctor to the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, recorded in his diary: " Randolph, who is writing a life of the late Lord Derby for Longman's, brought to luncheon a young man of that name.

Randolph Crewe | Sir Randolph Crewe, the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who was dismissed by Charles I of England | Charles I for refusing to declare the " forced loans " legal.

Although the judiciary initially refused to endorse these loans, they succumbed to pressure after the Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Randolph Crewe, was dismissed.

Others associated with the Cavalier tradition, according to Skelton, include Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Aurelian Townshend, William Cartwright, Thomas Randolph, William Habington, Sir Richard Fanshawe, Edmund Waller, and James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose.

* Sir Randolph Quirk 1985 – 1989

His temper as leader was, however, too gentle to satisfy the more ardent spirits among his own followers, and party cabals ( in which Lord Randolph Churchill, who had made a dead set at the " old gang ", took a leading part ) led to Sir Stafford's elevation to the Lords in 1885, when Lord Salisbury became prime minister.

* Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill ( 13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895 ), married 15 April 1874 Jennie Jerome, father of Sir Winston Churchill and John Strange Spencer-Churchill.

* Sir John Randolph ( 1693 – 1737 ), Virginia colonial politician, Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses

* Randolph Churchill, British Conservative politician and son of Sir Winston Churchill

* Arabella Churchill ( charity founder ) daughter of Randolph and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill

The common law judges declared this to be illegal, and the Chief Justice Sir Ranulph Crewe was dismissed ; at this, the remaining judges succumbed to the King's pressure.

" Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Marquess of Crewe and Anglo-French Relations, 1924-1928 ," Contemporary British History, ( March 2011 ) 25 # 1 pp 49 – 64, argues that Crewe gave Chamberlain key ideas about French security and disarmament policy, the implementation of the Geneva Protocol, the Treaty of Locarno and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

The almshouses were founded in 1633 by Sir Thomas Crewe of Steane.

Crewe married firstly Sibyl Marcia Graham ( 1857 – 1887 ), daughter of Sir Frederick Graham, 3rd Baronet of Netherby, in 1880.

The patron of the Museum Society was William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, and the President was Sir George Crewe who was a keen naturalist.

It was eventually bought by Sir Randulph ( or Randle ) Crewe, who became the Lord of the Manor.

Sir George Beeston ( c. 1520-1601 ) of Beeston House near Bunbury, Crewe, Cheshire, acquired Beeston Castle from the Crown shortly before his death.

However, Richardson felt Sir Alex Ferguson's wrath as the youngster shouldered some of the blame for United's below-par performance against Crewe Alexandra in the League Cup.

Henry Robert Harpur-Crewe was the nephew of Sir George Crewe bt.

He was the son of Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons.

Sir Ranulph Crewe, uncle of the first Baron, was the ancestor ( through the female line ) of John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe ( see Baron Crewe ).

In 1559, Bess married a third time, to Sir William St. Loe ( St Lowe, Saintlowe, or Sentloe ), and became Lady St Loe.

He took, in fact, an active part in the rising of 1559 and was commissioned by the Congregation to solicit the help of the English government through Sir Ralph Sadleir at Berwick.

The vogue for the pastoral romance spread throughout Europe producing such notable works as Bernardim Ribeiro " Menina e Moça " ( 1554 ) in Portuguese, Montemayor's Diana ( 1559 ) in Spain, Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia ( 1590 ) in England, and Honoré d ' Urfé's Astrée ( 1607 – 27 ) in France.

After John was beheaded, the Crown owned the estate until it was acquired in 1559 by Sir Arthur Champernowne, Vice-Admiral of the West under Elizabeth I.

* Sir Richard Southwell 1554 – 1559

He was the third son of Sir Bernard Grenville ( 1559 – 1636 ), and a grandson of the famous seaman, Sir Richard Grenville.

In 1562, the title passed to Matthew's youngest son Hugh O ' Neill who had been taken to safety in the Pale by Sir Henry Sidney in 1559, stayed at the English court and was protected there while Shane established his supremacy in Ulster.

Sir Anthony St Leger or Sellenger ( c. 1496 – 16 March 1559 ) of Ulcombe and Leeds Castle, Kent, was an English politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period.

He was great-grandson of Sir Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London, who, according to the accepted account, while apprentice to Sir William Hewett, clothworker and lord mayor in 1559, made the fortunes of the family by leaping from London Bridge into the river and rescuing Anne ( d. 1585 ), the daughter of his employer, whom he afterwards married.

Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington wrote in his History of the House of Seytoune to the Year 1559, that Sir William Seton, "... was the " First creatit and made Lord of Parliament in Scotland, and he and his posteritie to have ane voit yairin and be callit Lords " by King Robert II, where there were no Lords of Parliament before that time.

* Sir George Shirley, 1st Baronet ( 1559 – 1622 )

The title Baron Gerard, of Gerards Bromley, was created in the Peerage of England on 21 July 1603 for Sir Thomas Gerard ( d. 1617 ), son of Sir Gilbert Gerard ( d. 1593 ) Attorney General between 1559 and 1581 and Master of the Rolls in 1581, who acquired estates at Gerards Bromley and Hilderstone, Staffordshire.

In 1559 the executors of Sir John Port's will purchased from the Thacker family, for £ 37. 10s (£ 37. 50 ), the land which had once housed a twelfth-century Augustinian Priory, and the accompanying buildings which had survived Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries and subsequent upheavals, namely, the Guest Chamber and Prior's Lodging ( which as the Old Priory currently houses the School Library and Common Room ), Overton's Tower ( now part of School House ), the Tithe Barn, and the Arch, which is all that now remains of the priory's original gatehouse and which helped inspire the School's motto: porta vacat culpa.

His children were his son Charles ( 1516 – 1544 ), a daughter Gertrude, and another daughter Catherine ( died 25 Feb. 1559 ), 1st wife of Sir Maurice Berkeley ( d. 1581 ) of Bruton.

Sir William Hewet, Lord Mayor of London in 1559, was born in Wales, and his descendants, the Dukes of Leeds, would come to dominate the area.

It was the first Irish Monastery to be dissolved when Sir Gerald Aylmer of nearby Lyons ( d. 1559 ) petitioned Henry VIII.

The monument to John's great great grandson, Sir William Wroughton ( died 1559 ), is early Elizabethan, canopied, and shows influence of the previous Perpendicular Gothic style.

* 1558 – 1559: Sir Thomas Parry

* 1559 – 1568: Sir Edward Rogers

* Maitland, Richard, The History of the House of Seytoun to 1559 by Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington contiuned by Alexnder Viscount Kingston, Maitland Club ( 1829 )