Ralph Dison

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Ralph Dison
Born1628
OccupationServant of the English royal family.

Ralph Dison or Ralfe Dyson (died 1628) was a servant of the English royal family.

Dison was under-keeper of the royal palace, gardens, and wardrobe at Oatlands. His annual fee was £12. The keeper was John Trevor (1563–1630). His annual fee was £12. [1]

His name appears in the inventories of Anne of Denmark. He made a list of six paintings to be sent to the queen's gallery at Hampton Court with a servant of John Whynyard, yeoman of the king's beds, and oversaw the return of red velvet hangings to Whitehall Palace and a folding Chinese screen to Somerset House. [2]

Ralph Dison died before 1628. The executor of his will was his widow Phoebe Alexander, the daughter of a London ironmonger Ralph Cannynge. [3]

The next under-keeper at Oatlands was John Griffith.

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References

  1. Wendy Hitchmough, 'Setting the Stuart court: placing portraits in the performance of Anglo-Spanish negotiations', Journal of the History of Collections, 32:2 (July 2020), pp. 245-264: TNA SP 14/86 f.181.
  2. Wendy Hitchmough, 'Setting the Stuart court: placing portraits in the performance of Anglo-Spanish negotiations', Journal of the History of Collections, 32:2 (July 2020), pp. 245-264.
  3. Acts of the Privy Council, 1628-1629, p. 294: Richard Dell, The Glynde Place Archives: A Catalogue (1946), pp. 46-7.