The Baronets of Lamport & Ladies Isham – Links to AAIAA Documents & Other Websites | ANGLO-AMERICAN ISHAM ANCESTRY ASSOCIATION

This page provides links to information about each Baronet of Lamport and Lady Isham. It draws on both AAIAA documents and the World Wide Web. Baronets for whom portraits are provided (all either in the public domain or owned by the family) are direct ancestors of the current baronetical family.

Isham Baronets

AAIAA Documents: 16 The Baronetcy
Genealogical timeline of the Baronetical succession
Wikipedia article
A Short History of the Isham Family
Cracroft’s Peerage’s Current English Baronetcies (includes full list of Isham Baronets)
The English Baronetage (Indiana University library copy)
The New Baronetage of England (New York Public Library copy)
Web article on 1st to 7th baronets, including portraits

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Sir John, 1st Baronet (1582-1651)
Judith Lewin

AAIAA Documents: 10 John Isham
Wikipedia article
ThePeerage.com entry
Daughter Elizabeth Isham (c.1608-1654), one of the earliest female diarists, especially among the 17th century English aristocracy
Constructing Elizabeth Isham project website, Center for the Study of the Renaissance, Warwick University

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Sir Justinian, 2nd Baronet (1610-1675)
only son of 1st Baronet
Jane Garrard
daughter of Sir John Garrard, Baronet of Lamer
Vere Leigh
daughter of Thomas, Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh & Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Egerton

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Sir Thomas, 3rd Baronet (1656-1681)
elder son of 2nd Baronet

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Sir Justinian II, 4th Baronet (1658-1730)
younger son of 2nd Baronet
Elizabeth Turnor
daughter of Sir Edmund Turnor of Stoke Rochford Hall (Kent) & Margaret, daughter of Sir John Harrison

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Sir Justinian III, 5th Baronet (1687-1737)
elder son of 4th Baronet

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Sir Edmund, 6th Baronet (1690-1772)
younger son of 4th Baronet

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Sir Justinian IV, 7th Baronet (1740-1818)
nephew of 6th Baronet
grandson of 5th Baronet
Susannah Barrett
daughter of Henry Barrett

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Sir Justinian V, 8th Baronet (1773-1845)
son of 7th Baronet
Mary Close
daughter of Samuel Close & Deborah Champagne of County Armagh, Ireland

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Sir Justinian VI, 9th Baronet (1816-1848)
elder son of 8th Baronet

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Sir Charles Edmund, 10th Baronet (1819-1903)
younger son of 8th Baronet
Emily Vaughan
daughter of Sir John Vaughan & Louisa, Lady St John, widow of St Andrew, 14th Baron St John of Bletso and daughter of Sir Charles William Rouse-Boughton, 9th Baronet

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Sir Vere, 11th Baronet (1862-1941)
1st cousin once removed of 10th Baronet
great-grandson of 7th Baronet
Millicent Vaughan
daughter of Henry Halford Vaughan, Regis Professor of History, Oxford University
niece of Emily (Vaughan) Lady Isham

Wikipedia article
ThePeerage.com entry
Marriage of Captain Isham and Millicent Vaughan, Northampton Mercury, 18 January 1895
Vere Isham Story (Keys–the newsletter of St. John’s Hildenborough–April 2017), page 20

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Sir Gyles, 12th Baronet (1903-1976)
younger (surviving) son of 11th Baronet

AAIAA Documents: 4 Gyles Goes to Hollywood – 5 The Four Ishams (Sir Gyles with Vere and Sons–and Future Baronets–Ian and Norman)
ArtUK portrait
Wikipedia article
ThePeerage.com entry
Gyles and Virginia: childhood friends of John Gielgud
Gyles and Gielgud: fellow acting students at Oxford, late 1920s
Sir Gyles’ sister Virginia: an actress; correspondent (1, 2) and friend of cousin Virginia Woolf, c. early 1930s
Jackson Links Between Sir Gyles Isham & His Sister Virginia & Stephen Sisters Vanessa Bell & Virginia Woolf
Gyles and Gielgud: perform together in HAMLET (Gielgud) at the Old Vic 1929
Prince Hal, HENRY IV, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1932
Gyles’s filmography, 1933-37
Acted with Vivien Leigh in Shakespeare’s HENRY VIII in 1936
Under Secret Orders (British spy film), 1937
Performer, Shakespeare Birthday Festival, Old Vic, with Edith Evans, Alec Guiness, Ruth Gordon, Rachel Kempson, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, and Jessica Tandy, 23 April 1937
Director, Twelfth Night, Northampton Drama Club, 1951.
President, Northampton Drama Club, 1953-58.
Lampy the Garden Gnome (Atlas Obscura article)
Agamemnon and After: the “lost cause” that became the Oxford Playhouse (Don Chapman, Leicester Research Archive), 2006.
Retro: Optimism for stately home future (Northamptonshire Telegraph article), June 2014
YouTube video biography, 2017.

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Sir Ian, 13th Baronet (1923-2009)
3rd cousin once removed of 12th Baronet
3rd-great-grandson of 7th Baronet

AAIAA Documents: 5A Sir Ian’s World War II Record – 5B Sir Ian with London Yeomanry Regiment – 5C Sir Ian at 80 – 14 Lamport Church (of which Sir Ian was Patron)
Wikipedia article
ThePeerage.com entry
The Orton Trust (of which Sir Ian was Patron)
Sundial in Dogham Farm garden honoring Sir Ian, installed 2005: sundial itself – base of sundial
The Times obituary, 28 Oct 2009
Peerage News (a Google Group) obituary, 28 Oct 2009
Remembrance by Mrs Rosemary Eady of Pytchley Lodge, Nov 2009
Northamptonshire Past & Present obituary, 2010 (page 101)
Address by Richard Isham, June 2010

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Sir Norman, 14th Baronet (b. 1930)
younger brother of 13th Baronet
Joan Genet
daughter of Leonard James Genet, Chief Inspector, BSAP, BEM & Rhoda Constance, daughter of Walter & Amelia White of Vreigevight (Bulawayo, Rhodesia)

AAIAA Documents: 17 Sir Norman & Lady Isham – 17A Joan, Norman, Libby – 18-19 Sir Norman Isham – 20 Norman Isham – OBE at Palace – 21A OBE
Wikipedia article
ThePeerage.com entry
The Orton Trust (of which Sir Norman is Patron)
Some more proposals for Valletta, Times of Malta, 27 February 2010
Proposed New Malta Parliament Building (sketch by Sir Norman)
AAIAA Gathering Speech, 23 July 2013
Official Roll of the Baronets