. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. ery few old English families—acommoner (not a trader) of high birth andfortune, piqued himself upon that. Arms—Quarterly, first and fourth, a chev-ron between three foxes heads erased Fox ; second and third, arg. a lion ram-pant gu. within a border sa. on a canton ofthe first, a harp and crown or, for Lane. Estates—In Yorkshire, Dorsetshire, andnear Lanesborough, in Ireland. Town Residence—12, Albemarle Street.
. A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours. ery few old English families—acommoner (not a trader) of high birth andfortune, piqued himself upon that. Arms—Quarterly, first and fourth, a chev-ron between three foxes heads erased Fox ; second and third, arg. a lion ram-pant gu. within a border sa. on a canton ofthe first, a harp and crown or, for Lane. Estates—In Yorkshire, Dorsetshire, andnear Lanesborough, in Ireland. Town Residence—12, Albemarle Street. Seats—Bramham Park, near Wetherby,Bramham House, near Bingley, where thefamily has resided since the destructivefire at Bramham Park, which swept awayso much old aristocratic magnificence. Ahouse in Bingley, a large market town inthe west-riding, which chiefly belongs toMr. Lane Fox, and the Court, near Lanes-^ borough, Ireland. 495 THORNTON, OF BROCKHALL. THORNTON, THOMAS-REEVE, esq. of Brockhall, in the county of Northampton, b. 14th Feb] uary, 1775, w,. 31st January, 1799, Su-sanna, daug-hter and heir of Peter John Fremeaux, esqof Kingsthorpe, and has I. John. II. Thomas-Cooke. III. William. IV. Edward. I. Eleanor. Mr. Thornton succeeded his father in 1790. He isa magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the county ofNorthampton, and was its high sheriff in 1798. The Thorntons were originally settledat Newnham, in Northamptonshire, but, onthe acquisition of Brockhall, they availedthemselves of its superior situation, anddeserted their former residence. John Thornton, of Newnham, acquiredthat estate, in marriage with Lettice, sisterand heiress of Thomas Newnham, of Newn-ham, who was son of John Newnham, , living in 1469, whose father,Thomas Newnham, wedded Lettice,* heir-ess of Thomas Thorpe, of Newnham. Bythe heiress of Newnham, (who died in 1556),John Thornton had a son and successor, Henry Thornton, of Newnham, who , daughter of Wil
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