Ralph Bucknall was a M.P. for

Petersfield Petersfield is a market town and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is north of Portsmouth. The town has its own Petersfield railway station, railway station on the Portsmouth Direct line, the mainline rai ...

. In 1697 Bucknall became Lord of the Manor of Petersfield. In 1670 he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Birch of

Whitbourne, Herefordshire Whitbourne (Anglo-Saxon for "white stream") is a village in Eastern Herefordshire, England on the banks of the River Teme and close to the A44. It is close to Bringsty Common on one side and the border of Worcestershire on the other. Around 4 ...

: they had 1 son and 3 daughters. A brewer by trade he also had a government commission for carrying on the manufacture of linen and paper in Jersey and Guernsey."A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade" Francis McKenzie, D.F. p109: London;

OUP Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

; 2005

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