[Illustration] Descended from the Thornhills of Thornhill in the
Peak, where they were seated as early as the seventh of Edward I.
Stanton was inherited from an heiress of Bache in 1697.
See Lysons, xcvii.
ARMS, confirmed in 1734.--_Gules, two bars gemelles_ _and a chief
argent, thereon a mascle sable_. This coat, without the mascle, was
borne by M. Bryan de Thornhill in the reign of Edward III. (Roll.)
Present Representative, William Pole Thornhill, Esq. late M.P. for
North Derbyshire.