Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet, of Grundisburgh Hall and Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, was a British Tory politician who sat in the English House of Commons and the House of Commons of Great Brita
Portrait of Sir Charles Blois by William Aikman
Cockfield Hall, the seat of the Blois family
Elizabeth Brooke (writer)
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Elizabeth Brooke, also known as Lady Brooke or Dame Elizabeth Brooke, was an English religious writer, part of whose writing of Christian precepts survives, and was matriarch of a landed manorial fami
Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet
…Blois, of Grundisburgh Hall and his first wife Martha Brooke (died 1657), daughter of Sir Robert Brooke (1572–1646) of Cockfield Hall and his wife Elizabeth. However as his mother died very soon after his birth, Charles's father remarried to Jane Barnardiston (daughter of Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston (1588–1653…
Dame Elizabeth Brooke (1601-1683)
John, Lord Colepeper, Dame Elizabeth Brooke's brother
Memorial inscription for John Brooke, 1652, with Brooke and Barnardiston arms