[Illustration] This is a younger line of the ancient and noble
family of Harington, formerly of Ridlington, in the county of
Rutland, created Baronet in 1611, and still represented by Sir John
Edward Harington, the tenth Baronet: the name is local, from
Harington in Cumberland, from whence Robert Harington was called in
the reign of Henry III.
A younger branch of the Haringtons was fixed at Ridlington by
purchase in the first year of Philip and Mary; but had been seated
at Exton in the same county from the reign of Henry VII. Sir James
Harington, third Baronet, was attainted in the 13th of Charles II.,
having been named as one of the Judges of his sovereign Charles I.
He sat however only one day, and refused to sign the fatal warrant.
Dartington, the ancient seat of the Champernowne family, was carried
by an heiress, Jane, only daughter of Arthur Champernowne, Esq., the
last heir male of the family, to the Rev. Richard Harington, second
son of Sir James Harington, Baronet, grandfather of the present
representative, and who assumed her name.
See Wright's History of the County of Rutland, pp. 48, 108; Blore's
Rutlandshire; and Courthope's Debrett's Baronetage, p. 10.
ARMS.--_Sable, fretty argent_.
Present Representative, Arthur Champernowne, Esq.
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