Alexander de Standish

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ²⁰²
Alexander de Standish, son and heir of Ralph and Juliana de Standish died about 1246. He succeeded his father as lord of the manor of Standish in 1219. he had been Rector of Standish since 1205 or earlier. He acquired the advovson of Standish Church and other rights from the Langtrees. His son and heir was Ralph de Standish.

~The Families of Standish, p. 4

• Background Information. ⁸²⁷
Ralph de Standish occurs in the time of Richard I, [Lancs. Pipe R. 378.] and in 1206 agreed with Siward de Langtree as to the partition of the manor and advowson of Standish. [Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 24] He died in 1219-20, and was succeeded, it is alleged, by a son Richard, a younger son, Alexander, having long held the rectory, and almost immediately succeeding his father in the manor. [Curia Regis R. 70, m. 16; 74, m. 8] His son Ralph followed, [Assize R. 404, m. 14 d] and left three sons, who held the manor one after another-Edmund, Hugh and Jordan. [Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 269] Jordan's eldest son, Ralph, died without issue in or before 1296, and a younger son, William, succeeded, holding the manor for nearly thirty years.

~A History of the County of Lancaster, Volume VI, pp. 192-199