Frances Bevan
This blog began life as Status, Scandal and Subterfuge, a story about the Lady St Johns of Lydiard Park. However, the Ladies of the family have proved so fascinating that I have extended my research and launched this new website Good Gentlewoman.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
women's history 17th century St John family 15th century 18th century Lydiard House The White Queen Lydiard Park Villiers family St Mary's Church Lydiard Tregoze 16th century Henry VII 19th century War of the Roses George Duke of Buckingham St Johns of Lydiard Tregoze Henry VIII St John polyptych Lydiard Tregoze BBC1
23 April 2021
The Good Gentlewoman blog has found a new (and very fitting) home on the Friends of Lydiard Park website. The Friends of Lydiard Park is a charitable organisation, which supports and...
31 March 2021
This week I am thrilled to announce the publication of my book The Ladies of Lydiard, which has been my work in progress for several years. The St. John family who owned Lydiard...
Buried – The Lady Ellinor Roberts Widd
4 August 2020
When war raged across England in the 17th century the St. John family, like so many others, were divided by the conflict. Sir John St. John 1st Baronet, lost three sons to the Royalist...
1 August 2020
You can’t imagine how pleased I was to find Jane St. John. She wasn’t exactly lost – I was just looking for her in all the wrong places. Jane was the third of six...