[Illustration] The name is derived from Boreton, in the parish of Condover, in Shropshire, an estate which remained in the family until the reign of James I., although the Burtons became resident at Longner, in the same county, prior to the reign of Edward IV. "Goiffrid de Bortona," (Burton,) one of the foresters of Shropshire, in the reign of Henry I., is the first recorded ancestor. The senior line of this house terminated with Thomas Burton, who died unmarried in 1730, and whose sister carried the Longner estate to the Lingen family, who have assumed the name of Burton (see p. 198.) Thomas, fifth son of Thomas Burton, of Longner, is the ancestor of the present family, and of the Marquess of Conyngham (elder brother of the late Lord Londesborough). He went to Ireland in the reign of James I., and died there in 1665. His great-grandson married the heiress of Conyngham. The late Lord assumed the name of Denison on succeeding to the estates of his uncle W. J. Denison, Esq. See Archdall's edition of Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vol. vii. p. 173; and Morris MSS. ARMS.--_Per pale azure and purpure, a cross engrailed or between four roses argent_, granted in 1478, and commemorative of the devotion of this house to the White Rose of York. Present Representative, William Henry Forester Denison, 2nd Baron Londesborough. +Gentle.+ RAWDON OF RAWDON-HALL, MARQUESS OF HASTINGS 1816 EARL OF MOIRA IN IRELAND 1761; BARONET 1665. [Illustration] Rawdon, in the parish of Guiseley in this county, is the original seat of this ancient family, which is traced to Thor de Rawdon, whose son Serlo lived in the reign of Stephen. Rawdon remained the family residence till early in the seventeenth century, when Sir George Rawdon, the then head of the house, removed into the North of Ireland, and was seated at Moira, in the county of Down, where the family principally lived till the match with the heiress of Hastings in 1752. See Whitaker's Leeds, vol. i. p. 171; Brydges's Collins, vol. iv. p. 606; Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 467; and Archdall's Lodge, vol. iii. p. 95. ARMS.--_Argent, a fess between three pheons sable_. Present Representative, Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings. TANCRED OF BOROUGH-BRIDGE, BARONET 1662. [Illustration] At a very early date, and probably not long after the Conquest, the ancestors of this family were seated at Borough-Bridge, which appears to have been ever since one of the residences of the house of Tancred. See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 387. ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three escallops gules_. Present Representative, Sir Thomas Tancred, 7th Baronet. MEYNELL OF NORTH KILVINGTON.