"The Wallers, long established in Kent ... had been seated at Groombridge, near Tunbridge Wells, since the early fifteenth century. Sir Thomas, a younger son, had an active official career in the county and in 1604, through the patronage of the earl of Northampton, became lieutenant of Dover Castle. His wife, Margaret, was the daughter of Sampson Lennard of Chevening, Kent, and the lessee of Knole, whose wife, Margaret Fiennes, became Baroness Dacre in her own right in 1604." [Barbara Donagan, "Waller, Sir William (bap. 1598?, d. 1668)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004]