The Standish family is an ancient English feudal manorial family and one of the oldest Anglo-Norman noble lineages. This Norman-roots family has been settled in Lancashire from the Conquest of England in 1066. The known history of the Standish family begins at the end of the twelfth century.

Henry Noailles Widdrington Standish, Lord of the manor of Standish, and his brothers in arms in the château de Montjoye (Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines), during the First World War (1915).

The ancestors of the Standish family lived at Standish, a parish (St. Wilfrid) in the unions of Wigan and Chorley. According to the English historian John Whitaker, Standish, anciently Stanedich, was one of the twelve considerable towns in the south of Lancashire. Of the castle of Standish (a former fortified castle erected by the Saxons), however, there are no remains, nor can its site even be ascertained. Furthermore, it is not known whether the Standish family's progenitors gave their name to the parish, or received it from the castle.

Members of the Standish family, who were Lords of the Manor of Standish (Standish Hall, a large brick mansion, long the seat of the Standish family) and custodians of the Standish estates in Lancashire, are listed below.^[1][2]

Radulphus de Stanedis, of Duxbury Manor (a Lancashire squire at the beginning of the 13th century).^[3]

• Myles Standish
• Frederick Standish
• Standish, Greater Manchester
• Standish Hall
• Berystede
• Hélène Standish (in French)

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• The House of Standish -The french connection on Myles Standish.info website
• Standish Papers on The National Archives website