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<metadataxml><content><line>&lt;p&gt;Baron of Worplesdon&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;A number of family trees on Ancestry.com show Edward&amp;nbsp;Keene as "Lord Worplesdon" or "Baron of Worplesdon."&amp;nbsp; Is this an authentic title?&lt;br&gt;It is certainly used in fiction.&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp687-692&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;Worplesdon (St. Mary)&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;para;WORPLESDON (&lt;em&gt;St. Mary&lt;/em&gt;), a parish, in the union of Guildford, First division of the hundred of Wokeing, W. division of Surrey, 3&amp;frac12; miles (N. N. W.) from Guildford; containing, with the tythings of Burgham, Perry-Hill, West-End, and Wyke, 1424 inhabitants. The parish comprises 6795&lt;em&gt;a&lt;/em&gt;. 3&lt;em&gt;r&lt;/em&gt;. 34&lt;em&gt;p&lt;/em&gt;., of which about 300 acres are woodland, and 1367 common or waste. The Wey and Arun navigation passes through it. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at &amp;pound;24. 13. 9., and in the gift of Eton College: the tithes have been commuted for &amp;pound;1068, and the glebe comprises 76 acres. The church, an ancient structure in the early English style, contains some interesting monuments; the east window is embellished with stained glass, collected and arranged in 1802, at the expense of the Rev. W. Roberts, then incumbent. At Wyke is a separate incumbency. The Rev. Dr. Moore in 1706 bequeathed &amp;pound;200, directing the interest to be applied in teaching children. In 1829, the remains of a Roman tessellated pavement were discovered on Broad-street common: the building of which it formed the floor, was 62 feet long and 23 wide within the walls, and was divided into five separate apartments, with a passage on the western side extending through the whole length; the tesser&amp;aelig; were of ironstone about one inch square.&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;- Google Books Result&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;div style="display: inline-block;"&gt;https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0857685341&lt;/div&gt;</line><line>&lt;div&gt;</line><line>&lt;div&gt;</line><line>&lt;div&gt;Kim Newman - 2012 - &amp;lrm;Fiction&lt;/div&gt;</line><line>&lt;span&gt;'Lady &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #6a6a6a;"&gt;Worplesdon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; would like to say a few words before this session goes into, ah, session.' Cold eyes swivelled. Agatha Gregson sucked in air around her&amp;nbsp;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</line><line>&lt;/div&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jeeves_characters#Percival_"Percy"_Craye,_Earl_of_Worplesdon&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Percival "Percy" Craye, Earl of Worplesdon &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;edit&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;Percival "Percy" Craye (later Earl of Worplesdon) is a fictional character in the Jeeves stories. He has a daughter, Florence Craye, and a son, Edwin Craye. Lord Worplesdon is also the guardian of Zenobia "Nobby" Hopwood.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;[26]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; He is a former employer of Jeeves,&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;[27]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and later returns to Jeeves for advice.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;[28]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; When stirred by a strong emotion, Worplesdon has a tendency to start shouting "What? What? What?" repeatedly.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;[29]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;He was nearly Agatha Gregson's first husband, though Agatha broke the engagement after he was thrown out of a Covent Garden ball and taken to Vine Street Police Station.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;[30]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; After gaining the title Lord Worplesdon, he becomes her second husband and Bertie's Uncle Percy. He once chased the fifteen-year-old Bertie "for five miles across difficult terrain" with a hunting crop, after finding him smoking one of his special cigars.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;[27]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Worplesdon is later amused by the memory and gives one of his cigars to Bertie.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;[31]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;Lord Worplesdon was mentioned in the short story "Jeeves Takes Charge", in which it is stated that he was once thrown out of a music hall with Bertie Wooster's Uncle Willoughby.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;[32]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; It is also said in this story that he sat down to breakfast one morning, cried "Eggs! Eggs! Damn all eggs!", and ran out of his house, "never again to return to the bosom of his family" &amp;ndash; this incident is never referenced again, however.&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;[27]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; He later appears in &lt;em&gt;Joy in the Morning&lt;/em&gt;, in which he wants to have a clandestine meeting with an American businessman, Chichester Clam. In the same novel, Nobby Hopwood obtains her guardian's permission to marry Boko Fittleworth.&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;An early version of the character appeared in the Reggie Pepper story, "Disentangling Old Percy", in which he is not named but has a son named Percy.&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Agatha Gregson &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;edit&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;div&gt;Main article: Aunt Agatha&lt;/div&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;Agatha Gregson (n&amp;eacute;e Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon) is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories, being Bertie Wooster's fearsome Aunt Agatha and mother of Thomas "Thos Gregson.&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;Agatha Gregson, n&amp;eacute;e Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character in the ... before Joy in the Morning, she marries Percy Craye who had by then become &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #6a6a6a;"&gt;Lord Worplesdon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, whereupon she becomes Lady Worplesdon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line></content></metadataxml>

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Edward Keene
Sir Edward Keene I, Baron of Worplesdon
Sir Edward Keene I, Baron of Worplesdon
Edward Keene
August 26, 1545
478 Worplesdon, Surrey, England
2 May 1589
435 43 Suffolk, England
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