The Rundle family name is a prominent one in many parts of southwest

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, particularly

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. Notable people with the surname include: *

Adam Rundle Adam Rundle (born 8 July 1984) is an English footballer who made nearly 300 appearances in the Football League. Career Darlington A left-sided midfielder who began his career in Newcastle United's youth team, Rundle was released by the club in ...

, English football player *

David Rundle David Bryan Rundle (born 25 September 1965) is a former South African cricketer who played two One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1994. Born in Cape Town, Rundle attended St Stithians College and Stellenbosch University and was chosen in the ...

, South African cricketer *

David Allen Rundle David Allen Rundle (born January 4, 1965) is an American serial killer who raped and murdered two women and a teenage girl in Northern California between May and October 1986. After being identified as a suspect in the killings, Rundle fled to ...

, American serial killer *

John Rundle John Rundle (1791 – January 1864) was a British Whig politician and businessman. From 1835 to 1843, he was a Member of Parliament, representing Tavistock in the House of Commons. He was one of the original directors and financiers of the So ...

, British politician *

Katherine Fernandez Rundle Katherine Fernandez Rundle (born March 1, 1950) is the current State Attorney for Miami-Dade County in Florida. Education Rundle received a B.A. and M.A. in Criminology from the University of Miami and an LL.B. from the Faculty of Law, Univ ...

, State Attorney in Florida, United States * Sir

Leslie Rundle General Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle, (6 January 1856 – 19 November 1934) was a British Army general during the Second Boer War and the First World War. Military career Born in Newton Abbot, Devon, to Captain Joseph Sparkhall Rundle, a Roy ...

(1856-1934),

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General *

Mary Rundle Mary Beatrice Rundle (10 August 190729 September 2010) was the first officer in charge of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) at Portsmouth during World War II. At the end of the war, she was promoted to superintendent, the third highe ...

, British naval officer *

Robert E. Rundle Robert Eugene Rundle (1915 – 9 October 1963) was an American chemist and crystallographer. He was a professor at Iowa State University and fellow of the American Physical Society. Early life and education Rundle was born in Orleans, Nebras ...

, American chemist and crystallographer *

Robert Terrill Rundle Robert Terrill Rundle (18 June 1811 – 4 February 1896) was a Cornish Wesleyan Methodist missionary from Cornwall, UK. His most noteworthy activities relate to his missionary work in Western Canada between 1840 and 1848. Early life Rundle ...

, missionary in Western Canada in the mid-1800s *

Sophie Rundle Sophie Rundle (born 21 April 1988) is an English actress, best known for portraying Ada Thorne in the BBC One historical crime drama television series ''Peaky Blinders'', Ann Walker in BBC One and HBO's period drama '' Gentleman Jack'', Vicky B ...

, English actress *Peter Rundle, English actor *

Tony Rundle Anthony Maxwell Rundle AO (born 5 March 1939 in Scottsdale, Tasmania) was the Premier of the Australian State of Tasmania from 18 March 1996 to 14 September 1998. He succeeded Ray Groom and was succeeded himself by Jim Bacon. He is a Liberal ...

, former premier of Tasmania, Australia Originating from the manor at

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which at the time of the

Norman invasion The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, Breton, Flemish, and French troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conq ...

was called Roundale or Rundale (the site which is now named Randall Wood). The surname of Rundale, Rundell, Rundle, etc. was originally of 'middling' noble blood, owning a baronage in

Cobham, Kent Cobham () is a village and civil parish in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. The village is located south-east of Gravesend, and just south of Watling Street, the Roman road from Dover to London. The parish, which includes the hamlet ...

in the twelfth century that lasted for just two generations. Earliest records indicate that in 1203 the manor was granted to Henry de Cobham. In 1245 we find John de Cobham acquires the neighbouring manor of Rundale with . In the 13th century we then find that his son, Henry de Cobham de Rundale inherits Rundale. The line then passes to his son, Stephen de Cobham de Rundele, who becomes first

Baron Rundell Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knigh ...

. The elder or Kentish line of the Cobhams terminated in an heiress, and she married Sir

John Oldcastle Sir John Oldcastle (died 14 December 1417) was an English Lollard leader. Being a friend of Henry V, he long escaped prosecution for heresy. When convicted, he escaped from the Tower of London and then led a rebellion against the King. Eventu ...

, who was summoned to Parliament in right of his wife, as Baron Cobham, in 1409, and who afterwards became famous as the leader of the

Lollards Lollardy, also known as Lollardism or the Lollard movement, was a proto-Protestant Christian religious movement that existed from the mid-14th century until the 16th-century English Reformation. It was initially led by John Wycliffe, a Cathol ...

. The Rundle family was then centered in the southwest, where amongst other things - and like many in the area - the family was a prominent member of the seafaring community and owned a large number of taverns until the mid seventeenth century. The Rundle family today is still largely based in the southeast of England, but also has strong centers in and around the south of London, to where many moved from the southwest and from Wales in the first half of the twentieth century. Some authorities have tried to link the surname 'Rundell' to the Arundells another noble family of the West country, but this link remains unproven.

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The Rundell-Biddick Association of America
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rundle (Surname) English-language surnames

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