Purefoy is the surname of: *

James Purefoy James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor. He played Mark Antony in the HBO series ''Rome'', Nick Jenkins in ''A Dance to the Music of Time'', college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the series ''The Following ...

(born 1964), English actor *Robert Purefoy, also

Robert Parfew Robert Parfew (or Robert Warton) (died 22 September 1557) was an English Benedictine abbot, at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, and bishop successively of St Asaph and Hereford. Life He was probably born in the late years of the ...

(d. 1557), bishop of Hereford *

William Purefoy William Purefoy (c. 1580 – 8 Sep 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1628 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charl ...

(c. 1580–1659), one of the regicides of Charles I of England *

George Purefoy-Jervoise George Purefoy-Jervoise (10 April 1770 – 1 December 1847) was an English politician. He was the eldest son of Rev. George Hudleston Jervoise Purefoy Jervoise of Britford, Wiltshire. He was educated at Westminster School in 1781–1786 and Cor ...

(1770–1847), English politician

See also