IPRES, Sir Ralph (c.1336-1397), of Quernmore, Lancs.

Keeper of the park at Quernmore for Henry, duke of Lancaster (d.1361), then for John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, 5 Apr. 1360 – d.; steward of Gaunt’s lordships of Lonsdale and Amounderness, Lancs. 15 July 1375 – 28 Jan. 1383, Mich. 1395–6; receiver of the duchy of Lancaster estates in Lancs. 1392–d.Somerville, Duchy, i. 373–4; DKR, xxxii. 341; S.K. Walker, ‘John of Gaunt and his retainers, 1361–99’ (Oxf. Univ. D. Phil. thesis, 1986), 292–3.

J.p. Lancs. July 1394.Chetham Soc. lxxxvi. 217.