William Brereton may refer to: * William Brereton (fl. 1406–1432), MP for

Midhurst Midhurst () is a market town and civil parish in the Chichester District in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother (Western), River Rother, inland from the English Channel and north of Chichester. The name Midhurst was first reco ...

and Chichester *

William Brereton (courtier) William Brereton, c. 1487/1490 – 17 May 1536, was a member of a prominent Cheshire family who served as a courtier to Henry VIII. In May 1536, Brereton was accused of committing adultery with Anne Boleyn, the king's second wife, and exe ...

(died 1536) in the privy chamber of Henry VIII * Sir

William Brereton (died 1559) William Brereton may refer to: * William Brereton (fl. 1406–1432), MP for Midhurst (UK Parliament constituency), Midhurst and Chichester * William Brereton (courtier) (died 1536) in the privy chamber of Henry VIII * Sir William Brereton (died 155 ...

(c. 1520–1559), MP for

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Merseyside to the north-west, Greater Manchester to the north-east, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire to the south-east, and Shrop ...

in 1547 and 1559 *

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet (13 September 1604 – 7 April 1661), was an English religious Independent, author, and landowner from Cheshire. He was Member of Parliament for Cheshire at various times between 1628 and 1653, and during the ...

(1604–1661), Parliamentary General in the English Civil War * William Brereton, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Lords Brereton **

William Brereton, 1st Baron Brereton William Brereton, 1st Baron Brereton (1550 – 1 October 1631) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1622. He was created a peer in the Peerage of Ireland in 1624 as Baron Brereton. Biogra ...

(1550–1630), MP for Cheshire in 1597, 1614 and 1621 **

William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton William Brereton, 2nd Baron Brereton (28 February 1611 – April 1664) was an English landowner from Cheshire and member of the Peerage of Ireland who owned estates in County Carlow. A Royalist sympathiser during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a ...

(1611–1664), MP for Cheshire in 1661 **

William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (4 May 1631 – 17 March 1680) was an English mathematician and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons in 1659 and became Baron Brereton in th ...

(1631–1680), MP for Newton in 1659 and Bossiney 1660 * William Brereton (actor) (1751–1787), English actor *

William Brereton (British Army officer) Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom), Lieutenant-General Sir William Brereton (29 December 1789 – 27 July 1864) was a British Army officer of the nineteenth century who served as Colonel Commandant, colonel-commandant of the IV Brigade, Royal H ...

(1789–1864), colonel in the Royal Horse Artillery * William Brereton (cricketer) (1786–1851), English cricketer * William Brereton (priest) (1726–1812), Archdeacon of Lichfield, 1782–1801 * William Brereton (planter) (died 1822), planter in British Guiana

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