Sir Alexander Walden (died 1401), of Matching and Rickling, Essex, was an English politician.
Walden was the son of Alexander Walden and the nephew of the MP, Humphrey Walden. He married Elizabeth Somery, the daughter and heiress of John Somery of Bygrave, Hertfordshire. His second wife was Juliana. [1]
Walden was knighted by 1372. He was a member of parliament for Essex in September 1388 and November 1390. [2]
Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden KG, PC, KS, was an English barrister and judge who served as Lord Chancellor of England from 1533 to 1544.
Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Baron Haselhurst, is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden from 1977 to 2017, having previously represented Middleton and Prestwich from 1970 to 1974. Haselhurst was Chairman of Ways and Means from 14 May 1997 to 8 June 2010, and later Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association between 2011 and 2014. He was the oldest Conservative MP when he stood down at the 2017 general election. In May 2018, he was appointed as a life peer, and currently sits in the House of Lords as Baron Haselhurst.
Field Marshal John Griffin Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, 1st Baron Braybrooke, , KB, of Audley End in Essex, was a British nobleman and soldier. He served as a junior officer with the Pragmatic Army in the Netherlands and Germany during the War of the Austrian Succession. After changing his surname to Griffin in 1749, he commanded a brigade of at least four battalions at the Battle of Corbach in July 1760 during the Seven Years' War. He also commanded a brigade at the Battle of Warburg and was wounded at the Battle of Kloster Kampen.
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, was an English nobleman and politician.
Quendon and Rickling is a civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England with an area of 2,048 acres. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 was 587. It is a linear settlement on the B1383 between Saffron Walden and Bishops Stortford. Quendon & Rickling stand 300 feet above sea level on a watershed between two rivers: the Cam to the east, flowing north through Cambridge to the Ouse flowing on to the Wash.
Cromartyshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 until 1800, and of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1832.
John Wenlock, 1st Baron Wenlock was an English politician, diplomat, soldier and courtier. He fought on the sides of both the Yorkists and the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses. He has been called "the prince of turncoats", although some historians suggest the label may not be fair as this behavior was commonplace during the Wars of the Roses. Others contend that even when Wenlock was not actually changing sides, he was engaged in "fence sitting par excellence."
Quendon is a linear village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Quendon and Rickling, in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. Quendon is located on the B1383 between Saffron Walden and Bishop's Stortford, around 0.5 miles (1 km) from Rickling Green, the main village centre of Rickling. The trunk road status was lost due to the opening of the parallel M11 motorway. In 1931 the parish had a population of 156.
The High Sheriff of Essex was an ancient sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. On 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, the title of Sheriff of Essex was retitled High Sheriff of Essex. The high shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown in England and Wales, their purpose being to represent the monarch at a local level, historically in the shires.
Henry Howard, 10th Earl of Suffolk, of Audley End, Essex, styled Lord Walden from 1731 to 1733 was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1727 until 1733 when he succeeded to the peerage.
John Doreward was a Serjeant-at-law and Speaker of the House of Commons of England.
Robert Bourchier, 1st Baron Bourchier was Lord Chancellor of England, the first layman to hold the post.
The 1901 Saffron Walden by-election was a by-election held on 31 May 1901 for the British House of Commons constituency of Saffron Walden in Essex.
Rickling is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Quendon and Rickling, in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is situated approximately 6 miles (10 km) north from the town of Bishop's Stortford. Saffron Walden, at 5 miles (8 km), and the larger village of Newport, at 2 miles (3 km), lie to the north-east. In 1931 the parish had a population of 378.
Sir William Coggeshall (1358–1426), of Codham Hall and Coggeshall, Essex, was an English politician.
John Golafre was an English courtier and Member of Parliament.
Sir John Howard, of Wiggenhall and East Winch, in Norfolk, England, was a landowner, soldier, courtier, administrator and politician. His grandson was John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, the great-grandfather of two queens, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, two of the six wives of King Henry VIII.
Sir Charles Gold was a British company director, landowner and Liberal Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden from 1895 to 1900.
John Norbury of Hoddesdon and Little Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, was an English courtier, ambassador and Member of Parliament who served as Lord High Treasurer of England.