Sir Richard Guildford

Sir Richard Guildford
Arms of Sir Richard Guildford, KG
Spouse(s)	Anne Pympe Joan Vaux
Issue with Anne Pympe: Sir Edward Guildford George Guildford Philippa, Lady Gage Mary, Lady Haute Frideswide, Lady Browne Elizabeth, Lady Well, Lady Isley, Lady Stafford Eleanor Haute with Joan Vaux: Sir Henry Guildford
Noble family	Guildford
Father	Sir John Guildford
Mother	Alice Waller
Born	c. 1450 Cranbrook, Kent, England
Died	6 September 1506 (aged 55–56) Jerusalem, Mamluk Sultanate

Sir Richard Guildford (also spelt Guilford), KG (c. 1450 – 1506) was an English courtier who held important positions at the court of Henry VII, including the office of Master of the Ordnance.

Richard Guildford, born at Cranbrook, near Rolvenden, Kent, was the son of Sir John Guildford (1430–1493), Comptroller of the Household to Edward IV, by his first wife, Alice Waller. He was relied on as a councillor by Reginald Bray, who chose him as one of the four persons to whom he first communicated the plot behind Buckingham's rebellion against Richard III in 1483. Both father and son raised forces that year for the Earl of Richmond (the future Henry VII) in Kent, and were attainted in consequence. The son, who thereby forfeited some lands in Cranbrook, fled to Richmond in Brittany, and returned with him two years later, landing along with him at Milford Haven, where he is said to have been knighted. It is presumed he was with Henry at the Battle of Bosworth. Little more than a month later, on 29 September 1485, the new king appointed him one of the chamberlains of the receipt of exchequer, Master of the Ordnance and of the Armouries, with houses on Tower Wharf, and keeper of the royal manor of Kennington, where the king took up his abode before his coronation.