David Yale (chancellor)

David Yale (c. 1540–1626) was the Chancellor of Chester, England and a correspondent of Elizabeth Tudor's chief minister, Lord William Cecil of Burghley House.

[1][2] His great-grandfather was Baron Ellis ap Griffith, founder of the House of Yale, and grandnephew of Owain Glyndwr, last Welsh Prince of Wales.

[2] His aunt Joanna was the widow of Ambassador Simon Heynes, who was one of those who invalidated the marriage of Henry VIII with Queen Anne of Cleves.

[7] In July 1578, David Yale, as a fellow from Queens', wrote to William Cecil, Elizabeth's chief minister and Chancellor of Cambridge University, begging that if Dr. William Chaderton (the current President of Queens' College) was made Bishop of Chester, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester might not be allowed to exert his influence over the fellows in favour of Humphrey Tyndall, whom he considered to be unfit to be president because of his youth and inexperience.

[19][2] David's niece, Elizabeth Weston, was the sister-in-law of Sir Percival Willoughby's son, and aunt of Francis Willughby, father of Cassandra, Duchess of Chandos.

[20][21] His aunt Katherine was a daughter of the Lord of Cymmer-yn-Edeirnion, William ap Griffith Vychan, and another family member, also named David Yale, had been Dean of Bangor Cathedral in 1502.

[23] David's son, London merchant Thomas Yale II, married the daughter of Bishop George Lloyd of Chester, and after his death and her remarriage to Gov.

[26][27] David Yale also became second sergeant of the Artillery Company in 1648, and acquired the past home of Governor John Endecott, consisting of two acres of land with a garden, from merchant Edward Bendall, and was located in Scollay Square, downtown Boston.

Edward Hopkins, a Lord of the Admiralty under Cromwell and nephew of Sir Henry Lello, English Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire for Queen Elizabeth Tudor and keeper of the Palace of Westminster.