[Illustration] A family of very great antiquity, and resident at
Irton, on the river Irt, from whence the name is derived, as early
as the reign of Henry I. The Manor of Irton has belonged also to the
ancestors of Mr. Irton almost from the time of the Conquest.
See Lysons, lxxv. 119.
ARMS.--_Argent, a fess sable, in chief three mullets gules_.
Present Representative, Samuel Irton, Esq. late M.P. for the Western
Division of Cumberland.