William Pykenham
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Of a well-connected art expert …
baronets, Barons of Ebury, Barons Scrope of Bolton, Barringtons, Britain’s lost Masterpieces, Charles Manners-Sutton, Chester, Dan Snow, Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, Dukes of Westminster, Jacobite portraiture, James VI/I, Justin Welby, Lady Edwina Grosvenor, racehorses, Reginald Cardinal Pole, Rubens, Scrope/ Grosvenor case, van Dyck, William PykenhamAfter a few Archbishops of Canterbury and an Archdeacon (perhaps), we now come to an expert on art – Old Masters and Jacobite art in particular. Dr. Bendor Grosvenor, as seen in this BBC2 series when he has identified portraits such as the first Villiers Duke of Buckingham, is descended from the Cheshire family that…
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As we said last year, late mediaeval prelates were often well-connected. Indeed, as this ODNB article shows, William Pykenham, Archdeacon of Suffolk, died some time in spring 1497, approximately sixty years after his father. His mother was Katherine Barrington, of the prominent Hatfield Broadoak family, which explains some of his appointments through her Bourchier and Stafford…
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