Editing Harmondsworth (section)

==Some people associated with Harmondsworth==
[[File:William of Wykeham, by Sampson Strong (c.1550–1611), oil on panel, 50 x 40 inches. New College, Oxford.jpg|thumb|William of Wykeham, as imagined by [[Sampson Strong]] (c.1550–1611), oil on panel, 50 x 40 inches. [[New College, Oxford]].]]
[[File:Shield_of_William_of_Wykeham_(died_1404)._Argent_two_cheverons_sable_between_three_roses_gules.gif|thumb|Shield of William of Wykeham. ''Argent two cheverons sable between three roses gules''.]]
[[File:John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford by William Salter.jpg|thumb|[[John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford|Baron Strafford, of Harmondsworth, in the county of Middlesex]] (1772–1860) by [[William Salter (artist)|William Salter]].]]
*[[Offa of Mercia]], 780 AD, ''Hermonds'' (Harmondsworth) granted by Offa, King of Mercia, to his servant Aeldred
*[[Harold Godwinson]] (Earl Harold or Harold II) (killed 1066), the last Anglo-Saxon king of England
*[[William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford]] ({{circa|1020}} – 1071), advised King [[William the Conqueror|William I]] to grant Harmondsworth to an abbey in [[Rouen]], the then capital of Normanandy
*[[William of Wykeham]] (1320 or 1324–1404), [[Bishop of Winchester]] and [[Chancellor of England]], bought Harmondsworth in 1391
*Godfrey atte Perry, of Harmondsworth, MP for Middlesex, 1383 and 1388<ref>''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386–1421'', edited by J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe, 1993.</ref><ref>In May and June 1393 he was a guest in the household of William of Wykeham.</ref>
*[[William Paget, 1st Baron Paget]], KG, PC, [[Lord Privy Seal]], granted lordship and manor of Harmondsworth in 1547
*Sir [[Philip Hoby]] (1505–1558), the king leased him Longford mills for 60 years
*Sir [[Thomas Paston]], bought Hoby's interest in the Longford mill in 1548
*[[Thomas Paget, 3rd Baron Paget]], attainted in 1587
*Sir [[Christopher Hatton]] (1540–1591), KG, on third Lord Paget's attainder manor leased to Hatton by Queen Elizabeth I, 1587
*[[William Paget, 4th Baron Paget]], granted Harmondsworth and West Drayton in fee in 1597, and in blood 1604
*[[William Paget, 5th Baron Paget]] (1609–1678)
*[[William Paget, 6th Baron Paget]]
*[[Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (first creation)|Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge]]
*Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Uxbridge (1674–1749), (daughter of [[Sir Walter Bagot, 3rd Baronet]]), in 1747 she gave £100 stock to the parish to be distributed to ten poor families who did not receive parish relief, no one family receiving more than 10 shillings a year
*[[Thomas Paget, Lord Paget]] (1689–1742)
*[[Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge|Henry, Lord Paget, later Earl of Uxbridge]], his heir sold Harmondsworth rectory 1772 and the barn 1774<ref>[[Daniel Lysons (antiquarian)|Daniel and Samuel Lysons]], ''An Historical Account of those Parishes in the County of Middlesex which are not included in the Environs of London'', London, 1800, p. 139.</ref>
*[[Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (second creation)|Henry Bayley-Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge]] (1744–1812)
*Field Marshal [[Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey]] (1768–1854), KG, GCB, GCH, PC
*[[Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey]], sold the manor<ref>Thorne, ''Environs of London'', p. 320. Via ''A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 4, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Norwood With Southall, Hillingdon With Uxbridge, Ickenham, Northolt, Perivale, Ruislip, Edgware, Harrow With Pinner'', Victoria County History, London, 1971, pp. 7–10.</ref>
*[[William Heather]] (c.1563–1627), musician, founder of [[Heather Professor of Music]], Oxford
*[[Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland]] (c.1714–1786), KG, PC, and [[Duke of Northumberland|others]], owners of the [[Duke of Northumberland's River]]
*Sir [[Heathcote baronets|William Heathcote]], 3rd Baronet (1746–1819), owned Harmondsworth rectory 1772–1789
*[[George Byng (1735–1789)|George Byng]], MP
*[[John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford|Baron Strafford, of Harmondsworth, in the county of Middlesex]] (1772–1860), (aka Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford, GCB, GCH, PC)
*[[Richard Cox (horticulturist)|Richard Cox]] (c.1766–1845), breeder of [[Cox's Orange Pippin]]
*Henry Smith of Harmondsworth Hall, in 1875 he bequeathed £300 to be given to the poor in blankets. In 1958 The Blanket Charity the charity income amounted to over £7, from which six blankets were purchased<ref>Some of the stock was transferred in 1878 to the use of the National School. (J. Webb, ''History of Charities and Fishing Rights in Harmondsworth'', 1880, pp. 13–14.)</ref>
*Thomas Wild (1848–1932), of Wild & Robbins, market gardener (1931 growing: "cabbages lettuce leeks kale spinach broccoli New Zealand spinach rhubarb chokes potatoes beet greens Brussels [sprouts] onions marrows parsnips"
*[[Rowland Richard Robbins]] (Dick) (1872–1960), CBE, JP, market gardener, President of the [[National Farmers' Union of England and Wales|National Farmers' Union]] (NFU)
*[[Lionel Robbins]] (1898–1984) (Baron Robbins, CH, CB, FBA), economist;<ref>''Lionel Robbins'', by Susan Howson, Cambridge University Press, 2011.</ref><ref>''Autobiography of an Economist'', Lord Robbins, St Martin's Press, Macmillan, 1971.</ref>
*[[Caroline Robbins]] (1903–1999), historian
*[[Norman Macmillan (RAF officer)|Norman Macmillan]] (1892–1976), OBE, MC, AFC, DL
*Sir [[Charles Richard Fairey]] (1887–1956), MBE, of [[Fairey Aviation Company]], founded the airport at Heathrow in 1930
*Sir [[John Betjeman]], CBE (1906–1984), called the 1426 Great Barn ''the cathedral of Middlesex''.<ref>[[Simon Jenkins]], "John Betjeman's Heathrow", in ''The Selling of Mary Davies and Other Writings'' (London, 1993), pp. 63–70; & Candida Lycett Green, pers. comm. to English Heritage's account of Harmondsworth Great Barn for its website.</ref>