Ralph Sadleir (1579 – 12 February 1661) of
Standon, Hertfordshire
Standon is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish includes the adjoining village of Puckeridge. The village church of St Mary has Saxon origins with much Victorian restoration. It contains the ornate tomb of the Tudor co ...
was an
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landowner. He was
Sheriff of Hertfordshire
The High Sheriff of Hertfordshire was an ancient Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the foundation of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. On 1 April 1974, under the provisio ...
in 1609.
He was the eldest son, and heir, of
Sir Thomas Sadleir (c. 1536 – 1607), lord of the manor of Standon, by his second wife, Gertrude, daughter of Robert Markham, of
Cotham, Nottinghamshire
Cotham, Nottinghamshire is a small village near Newark-on-Trent in the East Midlands of England.
Population
At the 2011 Census, the village population remained less than 100. It is now included in the civil parish of Staunton, as part of N ...
.
On 13 September 1601 he married
Anne Coke (1585 – , the eldest daughter of
Sir Edward Coke (1552 – 1634) and his first wife, Bridget Paston (d. 1598), daughter of John Paston of
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of ...
.
Standon Lordship, the
manor house
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals ...
where the couple lived after their marriage, was built for his grandfather and namesake, the statesman,
Sir Ralph Sadler (or Sadleir) (1507–1587).
Sadleir delighted in hawking, hunting and the pleasures of country life; was famous for his noble table, his great hospitality to his neighbours, and his abundant charity to the poor.
Isaac Walton in his "
The Compleat Angler
''The Compleat Angler'' (the spelling is sometimes modernised to ''The Complete Angler'', though this spelling also occurs in first editions) is a book by Izaak Walton. It was first published in 1653 by Richard Marriot in London.
Walton continu ...
" noted how Sadleir was attached to the diversion of hunting. "To-morrow morning we will meet a pack of otter dogs of noble Mr. Sadler's, upon Amwell Hill, who will be there so early, that they intend to prevent the sun rising." In Walton's account, hounds met an hour before sunrise. Ralph Sadleir states that he will have the otter's skin, worth 10 shillings, for gloves "the best defence against wet weather". The otterhound pack that Ralph established evolved into the Essex Otter Hounds eventually becoming, through amalgamation, the Eastern Counties Otter Hounds, then the Eastern Counties Mink Hounds, following the ban on otter hunting, surviving to this day as the Eastern Counties Mink Hunt.
He died without issue on 12 February 1661 and was buried in the
parish church at Standon. His death brought to an end the male line of the Sadleir family. The Standon estate was inherited by his nephew,
Walter (1609 – 1678), eldest surviving son of his sister, Gertrude, who married
Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar
Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar (baptised 9 July 1584 – 13 August 1639) was an English courtier and diplomat.
Life
Aston was born in Staffordshire, England, about 1584; he was a son of Sir Edward Aston of Tixall and his second wife An ...
(1584–1639). His widow continued to live at Standon until her death in late 1571 or early 1572.
Ralph Sadler Escutcheon.png, Arms of Sadleir of Standon
Standon_Lordship_3.png, Standon Lordship, Hertforshire
St Mary, Standon, Herts - geograph.org.uk - 361615.jpg, St Mary's church, Standon, Hertfordshire
Although there are elaborate monuments for his father and grandfather, no monument was erected for him, unless, as Major Sadleir-Stoney suggests, it was one that stands at the east side of the chancel, of which the brass has been taken away.
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External links
St Mary's Church, Standon, Hertfordshireat Flickr
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1579 births
1661 deaths
High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire