title: Vavasour (surname)
text: # Vavasour (surname)
  
  Vavasour is the surname of:
  
  * Vavasour (family), an English Catholic family dating back to Norman times
     * Anne Vavasour (c. 1560–c. 1650), Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth I, and mistress of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
     * Thomas Vavasour (about 1536/7–1585), physician and recusant of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
     * Thomas Vavasour (knight marshal) (1560–1620), Knight Marshal to King James I
  * John Vavasour (c. 1440–1506), English judge
  * Sir Henry Vavasour, benefactor of All Saints' Church, Barwick-in-Elmet, Leeds
  * Mervin Vavasour (1821–1866), officer of the British Army Royal Engineers
  * William Vavasour (1514–1566), English Member of Parliament and High Sheriff of Yorkshire
  