Allen Apsley (other)
Allen Apsley may refer to: *Sir Allen Apsley (administrator) (1582–1630), English merchant, courtier and landowner, lord of the manor of Feltwell *Sir Allen Apsley (Royalist) (1616–1683), his son, Royalist in the English Civil War *Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley Allen Algernon Bathurst, Lord Apsley, DSO, MC, TD, DL (3 August 1895 – 17 December 1942) was a British Army officer and Conservative Party politician. Early life Apsley was the eldest son of Seymour Bathurst, 7th Earl Bathurst and his wife ...

Allen Apsley (administrator)
Sir Allen Apsley (1567 – 24 May 1630) was an English merchant, courtier and landowner, lord of the manor of Feltwell, and Naval administrator. He was Surveyor of Marine Victuals of the Royal Navy from 1612 to 1630. Biography Born in London, Apsley was the son of the rich merchant Sir John Apsley in Pulborough, West Sussex, and the City of London, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Shelly of Worminghurst, West Sussex. Sir Allen Apsley was first knighted in Ireland, on 5 June 1605. On 31 January 1612 he was appointed joint Surveyor of Marine Victuals of the Royal Navy (with Sir Marmaduke Darrell) – a post usually held for life. On 3 March 1617 Apsley was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London by James I. Apsley's second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Peter Carew, Knt.,''The Complete Peerage'' by G.E.Cockayne, edited by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, and H. Arthur Doubleday, vol.iv, London, 1916, p. 32. was related by marriage to the Villiers family, and Apsley was consider ...
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Allen Apsley (Royalist)
Sir Allen Apsley, 28 August 1616 to 15 October 1683, was a Royalist soldier and administrator during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, who took part in the Second Anglo-Dutch War. He was also MP for Thetford from 1661 to 1679. One biographer describes him as having an "ability to maintain friendly contact with figures across a wide range of affiliations, which helped to make him a successful political fixer". Born in London, his family came from West Sussex, an area solidly Parliamentarian at the outbreak of the First English Civil War in August 1642. As a result, Apsley spent most of it in Devon, serving as deputy governor of Exeter from 1643 to 1645, then governor of Barnstaple until the war ended in 1646. This brought him into close contact with senior figures like Queen Henrietta Maria of France, Charles II and Clarendon, connections which became important in later years. His younger sister Lucy was married to the Parliamentarian John Hutchinson, who used his influence t ...
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