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Bisham Abbey is a Grade I listed manor house at Bisham in the English county of Berkshire. The name is taken from the now lost monastery which once stood alongside. This original Bisham Abbey was previously named Bisham Priory, and was the traditional resting place of many Earls of Salisbury. The complex surrounding the extant manorial buildings is now one of three National Sports Centres run on behalf of Sport England and is used as a residential training camp base for athletes and teams and community groups alike. It is a wedding venue with a licence for civil ceremony and is used for conferences, team building events, corporate parties and private functions.
Sir Philip Hoby PC was a 16th-century English Ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire and Flanders.
Sir Thomas Hoby was an English diplomat and translator.
Bisham is a village and civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. The village is on the River Thames, around one mile (1.6 km) south of Marlow in the neighbouring county of Buckinghamshire, and around three miles (5 km) northwest of Maidenhead. At the 2011 Census, the population of the parish was 1,099, down from 1,149 at the 2001 Census. Bisham is home to one of Sport England's National Sports Centres.
Events from the 1530s in England.
Peregrine Hoby, was an English landowner and member of parliament who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679.
Sir Edward Hoby was an English diplomat, Member of Parliament, scholar, and soldier during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. He was the son of Thomas Hoby and Elizabeth Cooke, the nephew of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and the son-in-law of Queen Elizabeth's cousin Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon.
Anne Hoby was an English heiress.
Pieter Borsseler or Pieter Borselaer was a Dutch portrait painter who was prominent in England during the second half of the 17th century.
Elizabeth Russell, Lady Russell was an English poet and noblewoman. She was an influential member of Queen Elizabeth I's court and was known in her time for her refined poetry as well as her musical talent. In 1596, she was a vocal opponent of the reconstruction of Blackfriars Theatre in that London district.
The Hoby Baronetcy, of Bisham in the County of Berkshire, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 12 July 1666 for Edward Hoby, the son of Peregrine Hoby (1602–1679), during his father's lifetime.
Anthony Pearson was a 16th-century English Protestant who was executed for heresy during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. He is known as one of the Windsor Martyrs.
Sir Thomas Posthumus Hoby, also spelt Hobie, Hobbie and Hobby, Posthumous and Postumus, was an English gentleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1629. A Puritan, he has been claimed as the inspiration for Shakespeare's character Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure, of Ingleby and Malton, Yorkshire, was an English nobleman and politician. The surname, also given as Evers, was at that time probably pronounced "Ewry".
George Vansittart was a British politician.
Sir Walter Stonor was the son of Thomas Stoner of North Stoke, Oxfordshire and Sybilla, the daughter of Sir David Brecknock. He was a Knight of the Body and appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London on 29 September 1546. He had at least three probable brothers, John, Edmund and Robert. He was knighted by Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey, after the Battle of Flodden in 1513. He died in 1551 with no male heir.
Thomas Hoby JP DL of Bisham Abbey, Berkshire and Breamore, Hampshire, was an English politician.
Sir Thomas Hoby, 4th Baronet, of Bisham, Berkshire, was an English Member of Parliament (MP).
George Henry Vansittart was a British landowner and Member of Parliament who represented Berkshire from 1852 to 1859 for the Conservative Party.
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