Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder (1331–1399) was the Chamberlain to Anne of Bohemia, Queen to King Richard II of England.[1]
Richard was the son of Thomas Abberbury of Donnington in Berkshire and Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire.[1] He married to Agnes, the daughter of Chief Justice Sir William Shareshull and was knighted in 1359 by the Black Prince.[1] In 1382, he was appointed Chamberlain to Queen Anne of Bohemia.[1] He was MP for Oxfordshire in 1373 and 1386.
In 1386 he was given permission by King Richard II to turn his manor at Donnington into a fortified castle, to become known as Donnington Castle.[1] In 1393, Sir Richard founded the Donnington Hospital charity and built the almshouses on the site of the present 1602 ones in Donnington.[1][2] He died in April 1399.[1]