. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED LEYLAND Sir Richard was knight of the shire i and sherift"^ during the Commonwealth period. A pedigree was recorded at Sir W. Dugdale's Visitation in 1664,^ and in 1678 Sir Richard was succeeded by hii son Sir Charles, who represented the county as a Whig between 1679 and 1690.'' Sir Henry son of Charles, a Non- conformist, opposed the Jacobite rising at Preston in 1715 and was made one of the commissioners of forfeited estates.^ Dying in 1768 he was followed by his nephew Sir Henry son of Philip Hoghton,
. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster;. Natural history. LEYLAND HUNDRED LEYLAND Sir Richard was knight of the shire i and sherift"^ during the Commonwealth period. A pedigree was recorded at Sir W. Dugdale's Visitation in 1664,^ and in 1678 Sir Richard was succeeded by hii son Sir Charles, who represented the county as a Whig between 1679 and 1690.'' Sir Henry son of Charles, a Non- conformist, opposed the Jacobite rising at Preston in 1715 and was made one of the commissioners of forfeited estates.^ Dying in 1768 he was followed by his nephew Sir Henry son of Philip Hoghton, who represented Preston as a Whig from 1768 till his death in 1795.° He was the acknowledged Parlia- mentary leader of the Nonconformists. His son and successor, also a Whig and Nonconformist, was Sir Henry Philip Hoghton'' ; his brother, Major- General Daniel Hoghton, was killed at the battle of Albuera in 1811, and has a monument in St. Paul's Cathedral.* Sir Henry, at his death in 1835, was followed by his son Sir Henr}-, who took the surname of Bold before Hoghton, having married the heiress of the Bold ; In 1862 their son Sir Henry succeeded; having sold his mother's estates, he adopted one of the old forms of the surname, becoming de Hoghton ; the other children of his father took the same course. His only son Cecil having died un- married in 1874, Sir Henry was followed in 1876 by his brother Sir Charles, and the latter in 1893 by his half-brother Sir James de Hoghton, eleventh baronet, the present lord of the manor of Hoghton.'". De Hoghton, ironet. Sable three baronet. ban argent. Bold. Argent a griffon segreant sable. Hoghton Tower is strikingly situated near the summit of a bold eminence about half-way between Blackburn and Preston. The position is a command- ing one, and the prospect from the top of the entrance tower is very extensive, ranging from the mountains of the Lake District to those of North Wales, with the great plain of south-west Lanc
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