[Illustration] A well-known Wiltshire family, seated at Stourton, in that county, soon after the Norman Conquest. "The name of the Stourtons be very aunciente yn those parties," writes Leland in his Itinerary. "The Ryver of Stoure risith ther of six fountaines or springer, wherof three be on the northe side of the Parke harde withyn the pale: the other three be north also, but without the Parke; the Lord Stourton gyveth these six Fountaynes yn his armes." The Yorkshire property, and consequent settlement in this county, came from the match with the heiress of Langdale Lord Langdale in 1775. Younger Branch. Stourton, (called Vavasour,) of Hazlewood. Baronet 1828, first cousin of the present peer. See Brydges's Collins, vol. vi. p. 633; and Leland's Itin., vii. fol. 78 b. ARMS.--_Sable, a bend or between six fountains proper_. Present Representative, Charles Stourton, 18th Baron Stourton. MARKHAM OF BECCA-HALL. [Illustration] A remote branch of an ancient Nottinghamshire family, which can be traced to the time of Henry II. The name is derived from Markham, near Tuxford, in that county, but Coatham was afterwards the family seat, until it was sold by Markham, "a fatal unthrift," who was the brother of the antiquary Francis Markham; this was about the end of the reign of Elizabeth. William Markham, Archbishop of York, who died in 1807, was the ancestor and restorer of this worthy family; he was descended from Daniel, a younger son of the House of Coatham. Becca-Hall has been in possession of the Markhams since the end of the last century. See Markham's History of the Markhams, privately printed, 8vo. 1854; the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 1859; and the Topographer, vol. ii. p. 296, for Markham of Sedgebrook, co. Lincoln, extinct 1779. ARMS.--_Azure, on a chief or a demi-lion rampant issuing gules_. The Markhams of Sedgebrook bore their arms differenced by a border argent. Present Representative, William Thomas Markham, Esq. BURTON (CALLED DENISON), OF GRIMSTONE, BARON LONDESBOROUGH 1850.