Alexander Unton

Alexander Unton (died 1547) was an English landowner.

He was the son of Thomas Unton and Elizabeth Hyde. Thomas Unton was knighted at the coronation of Anne Boleyn.[1]

His home was Wadley House at Faringdon, formerly in Berkshire, and now Oxfordshire. The Untons also held Minster Lovell Hall from the king.[2]

His first wife was Mary Bourchier, a daughter of John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners. In 1533 he married Cecily Bulstrode, daughter of Edward Bulstrode of Hedgerley in Buckinghamshire.[3]

Their children included:[4]

Alexander Unton was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Edward VI on 20 February 1547.[5] He died on 16 December 1547.[6]

After his death, his widow Cecily married Robert Keilway, and was the mother of Anne Keilway.[7]

  1. ^ Stanley Thomas Bindoff, House of Commons, 1509-1558, II (London, 1982), p. 506.
  2. ^ John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxii.
  3. ^ Arthur Collins, Proceedings, Precedents, and Arguments concerning Baronies (London, 1734), p. 342.
  4. ^ John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxxiv.
  5. ^ John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxxi.
  6. ^ John Gough Nichols, The Unton Inventories: Relating to Wadley and Faringdon (London, 1841), p. xxxii.
  7. ^ Rayne Allinson, 'Anne Keilwey Harington', Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, eds, A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen (Routledge, 2017), p. 67.