[Illustration] A very ancient and honourable family of Norman
descent, who came over with the Conqueror, and seated themselves at
Lillingstone before the year 1200, Richard son of Elias Dayrell
being seised of a message and half a knight's fee there in King
Richard the First's time, or the beginning of King John's reign.
Before 1306 the Dayrell became possessed of the fee of the manor,
which has ever since continued in the family.
The Dayrell of Shudy Camps, in the county of Cambridge, are a
younger branch of this family, sprung from Francis, second son of
Paul Dayrell of Lillingstone, sheriff of Buckinghamshire 1579.*
See Willis's Buckingham, p. 213; Lysons, p. 595.
ARMS.--_Azure, a lion rampant or, crowned argent_.
Present Representative, Edmund Francis Dayrell, Esq.
* The Darells of Calehill, in Kent, purchased in the 4th Henry
IV., and sprung from the Darells of Sesay, in Yorkshire, are
_supposed_ to be a younger branch of this venerable family. The
extinct family of Darell of Littlecote, Wiltshire, for which see
the Topographer, ii. 101, and the Darells of Richmond, Baronet,
1795, are sprung from the house of Calehill.
GRENVILLE OF WOTTON UNDER BARNWOOD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM 1822,
MARQUESS OF BUCKINGHAM 1782, EARL TEMPLE 1749, VISCOUNT AND BARON
COBHAM 1718.
[Illustration] There is good reason to believe that this family,
seated at Wotton from the reign of Henry I., is a collateral branch
of the Grenvilles of the West. The manor of Wotton, among many
others, was given by William I. to Walter Giffard, Earl of
Buckingham. Isabel, daughter and coheir of Walter the second Earl,
is said to have brought it in marriage, about the year 1097, to
Richard de Grenville.
The consequence of this family in modern times is owing to matches
with the heiresses of the great houses of Temple, Nugent, and
Chandos.
See Brydges's Collins's Peerage, ii. p. 390, and Lysons, p. 673. See
also Moule's Bibliotheca Herald, p. 563, for an account of the MS.,
formerly at Stowe, viz. The original Evidences of the Grenville
Family, collected by Richard Grenville, of Wotton, Esq. during the
civil wars of the seventeenth century.
ARMS.--_Vert, on a cross argent five torteauxes_.
Present Representative, Richard Plantagenet Campbell
Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of
Buckingham.