David Yale (chancellor)
David Yale (c. 1540–1626) was the Chancellor of
Biography
David Yale was born about 1540 to John Wynn (Yale), heir of Plâs yn Iâl, and was almost certainly an illegitimate son.
His uncle was Chancellor
In July 1578, David Yale, as a fellow from Queens', wrote to William Cecil, Elizabeth's chief minister and Chancellor of Cambridge University, begging that if Dr. William Chaderton (the current President of Queens' College) was made Bishop of Chester, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester might not be allowed to exert his influence over the fellows in favour of Humphrey Tyndall, whom he considered to be unfit to be president because of his youth and inexperience.[8][9][10]
Despite his letter, Tyndall was elected President of
In 1598, he made extensive purchases of land from the Erddig family of Erddig near Wrexham, Wales, selling some but keeping Plas Grono as the family seat until it was sold by the heirs-at-law of his great-grandson Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale University in America.[13][1]
They sold the estate, including Erddig House, to
Family
England
David Yale married to Frances Lloyd, daughter of Admiralty Judge
David's niece, Elizabeth Weston, was the sister-in-law of
David's uncles were Dr. Griffith Lloyd, Dr.
His aunt Katherine was a daughter of the Lord of Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion, William ap Griffith Vychan, and another family member, also named David Yale, had been Dean of Bangor Cathedral in 1502. His great-nephew, Thomas Yale, married Dorothy Hughes, daughter of Humphrey Hughes of the Hughes of Gwerclas, 14th Baron of Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion, and their daughter, Dorothy Yale, married the 16th Baron.[3][22] Through this line, the Plas-yn-Yale estate would be inherited through multiple successions by Rev. John Yale, a Rector from Cambridge University, and descendant of the Bostocks of Bostock Hall.[23]
American colonies
David's son, London merchant Thomas Yale II, married the daughter of Bishop
David Yale also became second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1648, and acquired the past home of Governor John Endecott, consisting of two acres of land with a garden, from merchant Edward Bendall, and was located in Scollay Square, downtown Boston.[27] Yale's estate was later sold by his attorneys, Capt. Thomas Clarke and Capt. Thomas Lake, brother of Sir Edward Lake, 1st Baronet, and husband of Mary Goodyear, daughter of Deputy Governor Stephen Goodyear of the Goodyear family.[28][29]
He later left
References
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- ^ a b c d Rodney Horace Yale (1908). "Yale Genealogy and History of Wales. The British Kings and Princes. Life of Owen Glyndwr. Biographies of Governor Elihu Yale". Archive.org. Milburn and Scott company. pp. 86–87–88.
- ^ a b Burke, Bernard (1852). "A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland for 1852". Colburn and Co., Publishers. pp. 1662–1663.
- ^ A sketch of ancient Barking, its abbey, and Ilford, Edward Tuck, Barking and Ilford, 1899, p. 45
- ^ Daniel Lysons, 'County of Essex: Barking', in The Environs of London: Volume 4, Counties of Herts, Essex and Kent (London, 1796), pp. 55-110. British History Online [accessed 24 April 2023].
- ^ 'The ancient parish of Barking: Manors', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5, ed. W R Powell (London, 1966), pp. 190-214. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol5/pp190-214 [accessed 15 December 2023].
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- ^ Burke, Bernard (1863) A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, Part II, Harrison, Pall Mall, London, p. 1715
- ^ Rodney Horace Yale (1908). "Yale Genealogy and History of Wales. The British Kings and Princes. Life of Owen Glyndwr. Biographies of Governor Elihu Yale". Archive.org. Milburn and Scott company. pp. 79–80.
- ^ Lloyd, Jacob Youde William (1887). "The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd". Whiting & Co. pp. 45–46.
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- ^ a b Mayo, Lawrence Shaw (1936). John Endecott: A Biography, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1936, p. 233-234
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- ^ Theophilus Eaton, first Governor of the colony of New Haven, Baldwin, Simeon E. (Simeon Eben), 1840-1927, p. 19-20-27
- ^ Sachse, William L. “The Migration of New Englanders to England, 1640-1660.” The American Historical Review, vol. 53, no. 2, 1948, pp. 251–78. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1842820. Accessed 25 Nov. 2023, p. 255
- ^ Signers of the Mayflower Compact, Annie Amoux Haxtun, Clearfield, New York, 1968, p. 40-41
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