Anne Bedingfeild

Anne Bedingfeild (née Draper; 1560 – 1641) was an English theatre landlord and a benefactor.

Life Anne was born in 1560 to John Draper and his wife Mary. When her father died he left his brewery business to Mary and her children. He left some land specifically to Anne on what was known as the Seckford estate. The land was still held in trust after the death of Thomas Seckford to fund almshouses that Seckford had also left in his will. Anne had these lands from (probably) the age of sixteen.

In 1579, she married into the recusant family of Eustace Bedingfeld. Bedingfeld lived at Holme Hall. Her will included instructions to her daughter to continue to look after seven poor men in Clerkenwell.