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The St John family has several close connections with Royalty.  Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine had a whole nursery full...

In her book Cavalier - The Story of a 17th century Playboy - Dr Lucy Worsley describes the three Cavendish sisters as...

Most of what we know about Elizabeth Cromwell is based on propaganda written either by disaffected Parliamentarians or...

Sometimes it is only in death that we learn a little of the life of a Good Gentlewoman. Judith St John was born in c 1545...

Elizabeth Armistead's client list reads like a who's who of 18th century society.  The scurrilous Town and Country Magazine...

When Lady Johanna St John wrote her will in 1703 she left personal bequests to her son Henry and daughters Johanna Chute and...

Emma Whitbread was probably most men’s idea of the perfect wife.  When she wed Henry Beauchamp, 13th Baron St John of...

By 1762 the marriage between Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke and his wife Diana, eldest daughter of Charles, 2nd...

When William Cobbett visited Lydiard Tregoze on his fact finding tour of 1826 he observed that the estate had once been a...

It has to be said that the St John men didn't always make model husbands.  Those who married into the family were also...