Famous Kin of
Hugh le Bigod
Magna Carta Surety
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Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner
First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government
17th great-granddaughter
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Principal character of film Glory portrayed by Matthew Broderick
20th great-grandson
Henry Clay Folger
Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil
21st great-grandson
Edmund Waller
English Poet and Politician
12th great-grandnephew via Ida de Tony
Abigail (Smith) Adams
First Lady of President John Adams
16th great-grandniece via Ida de Tony
Benjamin Harrison V
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th great-grandnephew via Ida de Tony
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th great-grandnephew via Ida de Tony
Samuel Howard
Boston Tea Party Participant
16th great-grandnephew via Ida de Tony
Robert Treat Paine
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
16th great-grandnephew via Ida de Tony
Fletcher Christian
Leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
17th great-grandnephew via Ida de Tony
John Marshall
4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
17th great-grandnephew via Ida de Tony
Robert Townsend
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
18th great-grandnephew via Ida de Tony
Lytton Strachey
Author and Co-Founder of Bloomsbury Group
18th great-grandnephew via Ida de Tony
James Russell Lowell
American “Fireside” Poet
18th great-grandnephew via Ida de Tony
Henry de Bohun
Magna Carta Surety
3rd cousin 1 time removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
Sir William de Huntingfield
Magna Carta Surety
3rd cousin 1 time removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
Robert Catesby
Leader of Gunpowder Plot
4th cousin 13 times removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
William Stoughton
Chief Judge and Prosecutor, Salem Witch Trials 1692
4th cousin 15 times removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
General William Whipple
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 15 times removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
Philip Livingston
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 16 times removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
Caleb Brewster
Member of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution
4th cousin 17 times removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
Lyman Hall
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 17 times removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
Jonathan Swift
Author of Gulliver's Travels
4th cousin 17 times removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
Carter Braxton
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
4th cousin 17 times removed via Waltheof II of Northumbria
King Henry III
King of England
5th cousin 1 time removed via Robert I of Normandy
Robert de Vere
Magna Carta Surety
6th cousin 1 time removed via Rainier IV of Hainault
Elihu Yale
Benefactor and Namesake of Yale College
6th cousin 13 times removed via Robert I of Normandy