Angell (family)

His son Robert changed his name to the Anglicised "Angell" when Henry VIII broke with Rome, to lose the Roman Catholic connection.

The family rose to prominence with key posts in local and national affairs throughout the next 200 years, notably Sir Thomas John Angell in the mid 1500s.

The residential area is now the notorious "Angell Town" Estate, featured in David Cohen's article in the London Evening Standard some years ago.

Family motto "I stand in the track of my ancestors" The Norwegian name derives from Angel, the Danish variant of the landscape Angeln in today's Germany.

From Cornelia Irgens von Westerwick, the latter's widow, Angell received 53 of the 180 owner parts in the Røros Copperwork.

He had not actively intended to become an owner of the copperwork, but accepted to receive the parts so that the widow should manage to cover her debt to him.