William Dormer

[2] William Dormer was born before 1514,[2] the only child of Sir Robert Dormer of West Wycombe and of Wing, Buckinghamshire, and London (died 2 or 8 July 1552), and his wife Jane Newdigate (d. 1568),[3] daughter of John Newdigate (died 15 August 1528) of Harefield, Middlesex, by Amphyllis Neville (d. 15 July 1544).

Dormer was returned as the second member for Chipping Wycombe in the parliament of 1542 and served under his father's command in the war against France in 1544.

Dormer, too, disliked Queen Elizabeth's Anglican compromise; however, his Catholic family connections did not harm his political standing, either in national politics (in 1571 he again sat as a member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire in Elizabeth's third parliament), or in local affairs.

His second wife, Dorathy, had a monument built for him in the church, and founded an almshouse in the village of Wing in his memory.

[1] Dormer married firstly Mary, eldest daughter of Sir William Sidney and Anne Pakenham.