Audley is a surname of Old English origin derived from the village of

Audley, Staffordshire Audley is a large village in Staffordshire, England. It is the centre of Audley Rural parish, approximately four miles (6 km) north west of Newcastle-under-Lyme and 3 miles (5 km) from Alsager near the Staffordshire-Cheshire border. Audley is l ...

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surnamedb.com Notable people with the surname include: * Anselm Audley (born 1982), British fantasy writer *

Eleanor Audley Eleanor Audley ( Zellman; November 19, 1905 – November 25, 1991) was an American actress with a distinctive voice and a diverse body of work. She played Oliver Douglas's mother, Eunice Douglas, on the CBS sitcom ''Green Acres'' (1965–1969), ...

(1905–1991), American actress *

Henry de Audley Henry Audley (or Aldithel or Alditheley; c. 1175–1246) was an English baron. Audley was a royalist baron, born about 1175 to Adam de Alditheley and Emma, daughter of Ralph/Radulphus fitzOrm. His father Adam held Alditheley ( Staffordshire) fro ...

(1175–1246), English baron *

Hugh Audley Hugh Audley (baptised 13 January 1577 – 15 November 1662), also known as ''The Great Audley'', was an English moneylender, lawyer and philosopher. Following his death, he was the feature of a popular 17th-century pamphlet titled ''The way to be ri ...

(1577–1662), English moneylender and lawyer in the 17th century *

Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, 1st Baron Audley (c. 1291 – 10 November 1347) of Stratton Audley in Oxfordshire, and of Gratton in Staffordshire, served as Sheriff of Rutland and was the English Ambassador to France in 1341.J. R. Maddic ...

(1291–1347), English lord * James Audley (disambiguation), several people * John Audley (disambiguation), several people * Margaret Audley (disambiguation), several people *

Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley Margaret de Audley, ''suo jure'' 2nd Baroness Audley and Countess of Stafford (c. 1318 – 7 September 1349G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete ...

(1318–c.1350), English noblewoman *

Maxine Audley Maxine Audley (29 April 1923 – 23 July 1992) was an English theatre and film actress. She made her professional stage debut in July 1940 at the Open Air Theatre. Audley performed with the Old Vic company and the Royal Shakespeare Company many ...

(1923–1992), English actress *

Michael Audley Michael Audley (June 20, 1913 – October 3, 1995) was an American film and theatre director, actor, and dialogue advisor. Life and career Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Audley began his career as a stage actor and director. In 1942, he dir ...

(1913–1995), American film director *

Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden KG, PC, KS (30 April 1544), was an English barrister and judge who served as Lord Chancellor of England from 1533 to 1544. Early life Audley was born in Earls Colne, Essex, the son of Geoffrey Aud ...

(1488–1544), Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII * Tom Audley (born 1986), English rugby player Fictional characters: * Charles Audley, protagonist of the Georgette Heyer historical romance novel about the Battle of Waterloo, ''

An Infamous Army ''An Infamous Army'' is a novel by Georgette Heyer. In this novel Heyer combines her penchant for meticulously researched historical novels with her more popular period romances. So in addition to being a Regency romance, it is one of the most ...

'' * David Audley, protagonist in the series of eponymous British espionage thrillers by

Anthony Price Alan Anthony Price (16 August 1928 – 30 May 2019) was an author of espionage thrillers. Price was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England. He attended The King's School, Canterbury and served in the British Army from 1947 to 1949, ...

* Julian Audley, Earl of Worth, protagonist of the Georgette Heyer historical romance novel, ''

Regency Buck ''Regency Buck'' is a novel written by Georgette Heyer. It has three distinctions: it is the first of her novels to deal with the Regency period; it is one of only a few to combine both genres for which she was noted, the Regency romance and the ...

'' * Lucy Audley, protagonist of the Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational novel ''

Lady Audley's Secret ''Lady Audley's Secret'' is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published in 1862. John Sutherland. "Lady Audley's Secret" in ''The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction'', 1989. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel. C ...

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