[Illustration] This is said to be a Norman family, and to have been originally settled in the county of Durham. Kirk-Harle was inherited from Johanna, daughter of William, son of Alan del Strother, in the time of Henry IV. See Hodgson's History of Northumberland, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 246; and Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 433. ARMS.--_Quarterly sable and argent, a plain cross counter quartered of the field_. Another coat, viz. _Argent, five lozenges conjoined in pale azure, in the dexter chief an escucheon of the second_, is given in Courthope's Debrett's Baronetage. Present Representative, Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Baronet. HAGGERSTON OF ELLINGHAM, BARONET 1643. [Illustration] The pedigree is not regularly traced beyond Robert de Hagreston, Lord of Hagreston in 1399, although a Robert de Hagardeston occurs in 1312. It has been supposed that this family is of Scotch extraction; but a fire which took place at Haggerston Castle, the ancestral seat of this house, in the year 1618, and another which happened in 1687, having destroyed the ancient evidences, the early history is somewhat imperfect. See Mackenzie's Northumberland, i. p. 328, note; Raine's North Durham, p. 224; and Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 388. ARMS.--_Azure, on a bend cotised argent three billets sable_. The ancient arms of this venerable family, of which Raine writes, "few families can boast of such a pedigree or of such a shield of arms," was a scaling ladder between two leaves, alluding to the coat of Hazlerigg, an heiress of that house having married into the Haggerston family. The arms were so borne in 1577, as appears by a seal of that date: the scaling ladder was afterwards corrupted into the bendlets and billets. Present Representative, Sir John Haggerston, 9th Baronet. RIDLEY OF BLAGDON, BARONET 1756. [Illustration] The pedigree is proved for three descents before the reign of Henry VIII., the original seat of the family being at Willimoteswick in this county, of which place Nicholas de Rydle is designated Esquire in 1481; here also was born the Martyr Bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley, early in the sixteenth century. The present family is a younger branch, seated at Blagdon and inheriting the baronetcy on the death of Sir Mathew White in 1763. See Hodgson's History of Northumberland, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 322, and vol. iii. pt. ii. p. 340. ARMS.--_Gules, a chevron between three goshawks argent_. The more ancient coat was, _Argent, an ox passant gules through reeds proper_. Present Representative, Sir Mathew White Ridley, 4th Baronet. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. +Knightly.+ CLIFTON OF CLIFTON, BARONET 1611.