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Ralph Swillington (died 1525) was Recorder of Coventry and Attorney General to Henry VIII.
Swillington was Attorney General for the short period of time between 1524 and his death in the following year. In his will (dated 11 July 1525), he left land in Driffield, Yorkshire, to his nephew, George Swillington. A monument in St. Michael's Church, Coventry, commemorates Swillington, his wife Elizabeth (Babthorpe) and her other husband, Thomas Essex.
John Astley, The monumental inscriptions in the parish church of St. Michael, Coventry (1885)
John WIlliam Clay, North Country Wills (1912)
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Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry was a prominent English lawyer, politician and judge during the early 17th century.
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Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford (1821–1887) was the eldest son of Alexander George Woodford, a career soldier who was already a hero of Waterloo, and would rise to Field Marshal, ending his days in command of Chelsea Hospital. After a short stay in the Coldstream Guards, Adolphus entered the Anglican Church, having the living of Swillington from 1847–1872. On leaving the Army, he also became a Freemason, rising to become Grand Chaplain in 1863, commuting from Yorkshire to his London duties.
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