Adrian Poynings
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Sir Adrian Poynings was a military commander and administrator. The youngest of the illegitimate children of Sir Edward Poynings, he played a prominent role in the defence of the English garrison at L
Westenhanger Castle today, once the home of the Poynings family
George More
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Sir George More was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1625.
Adrian Poynings
…1527–1597), by whom he had a daughter, Frances More (1598–1633), who married Sir William Stourton. Anne Poynings, who married, as his first wife, Sir George More of Loseley Park, Surrey, by whom she was the mother of Anne More, who married the poet John Donne. After Poynings' death his widow married Sir Richard…
Portrait of Sir George More.