People From Astley Abbotts
Sir Thomas Billingsley (1600-c.1670/80) - Noted horseman who was in the households of the Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, Elizabeth of Bohemia, and the Earl & Countess of Thanet.
Sir Rupert Billingsley (1644–1713) - Godson of Prince Rupert, soldier and governor of Berwick upon Tweed at the time of the Glorious Revolution.
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