Simon Burgh (died c.1395), of Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, was an English politician.
People from Wimpole include the Independent minister John Conder.
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He was commissioned by the owner Jacob Boreel who had visited England and wished for a garden in the style of Stowe, Kewe Gardens and Wimpole.
Aside from the reverted property Wimpole, Gawthorpe and Harewood, where Sir John Cutler had lived in the castle, Boulter owned Little Haseley Oxfordshire, estates in Lincolnshire, the manor of Deptford near London, and estates in Hampshire Wherwell and Goodworth Clatford acquired in 1695 from Lord de la Warr, property in Kent and London and in Somerset.
On 11 February 1873, Yorke married Annie, daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild, 1st Baronet, at St. Andrew's Parish Church, Wimpole, Cambridgeshire.
His wife is mentioned in Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen, in a letter from Mary Crawford to Fanny Price while Fanny is staying with her mother and father in Portsmouth: I was there, two years ago, when Lady Lascelles had it, and I prefer it over any other house in London (She is talking about a house in Wimpole Street.)
January 2006 Chris Cook of the Wimpole Consortium referred to delays in the process due to the election to the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and subsequent difficulty in appointing a new oil minister acceptable both to the president and parliament.
According to Pepys, Chicheley lived extravagantly in London, and this was probably the reason that he sold his estate at Wimpole thirteen years before his death.