Sir | Sir Walter Scott | North Pole | Geoffrey Chaucer | South Pole | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Robert Peel | Geoffrey Rush | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet | Sir Raylton Dixon | Sir Harold Hillier Gardens | Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet | Geoffrey of Monmouth | Geoffrey Moull | Geoffrey Hill | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet | Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet | Geoffrey Keezer | Geoffrey de Montbray | Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet | Geoffrey Wilkinson | Geoffrey Howe | Geoffrey Blainey | Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet | Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland | Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet, of Great Lever | Sir Nigel | Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet, of Kandy | Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet | Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet |
He was hostile to the Protestant Reformation, and is said to have suffered from Thomas Cromwell's antipathy; but his name appears in important state trials of the period: in that of the Carthusian monks and John Fisher (1535), of Weston, Norris, Lord Rochford, and Anne Boleyn (May 1536), and Sir Geoffrey Pole, Sir Edward Neville, and Sir Nicholas Carew (1538–9).
A descendant of an ancient Welsh family, Sir Richard was a landed gentleman of Buckinghamshire, the son of Sir Geoffrey Pole of Worrell, Cheshire, and of Wythurn in Medmenham, Buckinghamshire (1431 - 1474 / 4 January 1479, interred in Bisham Abbey).