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William Leybourne

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William Leybourne may refer to:

  • Sir William de Leybourne (1250 - 1309) the first Lord High Admiral of England (1294 - 1297) "captain of the mariners" and “Admiral of the Sea of the King of England”. [1]
  • William Leybourne (1593 — 1671) B.A. M.A. D.D. Anglican Deacon Dean of Derry Cathedral 1670 - 1671
  • William Leybourn (1626 – 1716) (pseudoname Oliver Wallinsky) English mathematician and land surveyor, printer and bookseller, author of “Planometria, or the whole art of Surveying Land” (London: 1650) republished as “The Compleat Surveyor” (1657). [2]

Others

Variants Layborn, Layborne, Laybourne, Leybourn, Leybourne, Leyburne

  1. ^ Joseph Haydn (1851). The book of dignities. p. 151.
  2. ^ The Century Dictionary: The Century cyclopedia of names. 1895.