Henry Guy (politician)

The father died in 1640, the mother in 1690, aged 90, when she was buried in the chancel of Tring Church, and her son erected a monument to her memory.He afterwards held an excise office in the north of England, and ingratiated himself with the electors of the borough of Hedon in Yorkshire, where he was admitted a free burgess on 2 August 1669.John Yonge Akerman edited, from a manuscript in the possession of William Selby Lowndes, for the Camden Society in 1851, as vol.[1] On the death of Henrietta Maria in 1669 Guy obtained a grant of the manor of Great Tring, and on the estate he built, from the design of Sir Christopher Wren, a house and gardens.In 1680 he acquired from Catherine of Braganza a lease for thirty years of the manor of Hemel Hempstead, and in 1686 some lands in Ireland were ordered by the king's letter to be transferred to him.
Hedon Town Hall , next to Alexandra Hall; financed by Henry Guy.
Great BerkhampsteadInner TempleChrist Church, Oxfordnorth of EnglandYorkshireHedon Town HallEarl of SunderlandcupbearerCharles IIColonel Silas TitusGroom of the BedchamberThomas NealeJohn Yonge AkermanWilliam Selby LowndesCamden SocietyJames IIWilliam IIIHenrietta MariaGreat TringSir Christopher WrenCatherine of BraganzaHemel HempsteadIrelandWestminster AbbeyWilliam PulteneyDictionary of National BiographyHistoric EnglandNational Heritage List for Englandpublic domainParliament of EnglandSir Hugh BethellSir Matthew AppleyardMember of ParliamentWilliam BoyntonCharles DuncombeMatthew Appleyard (younger)Sir William TrumbullLord SpencerAnthony DuncombeSir Robert Hildyard, Bt