[Illustration] Acland, which gave name to this ancient family, is
now a farm in the parish of Landkey; it is thus described in
Westcote's Devonshire, (p. 290:) "Then Landkey, or Londkey; and
therein Acland, or rather Aukeland, as taking name from a grove of
oaks, for by such an one the house is seated, and hath given name
and long habitation to the _clarous_ family of the Aclands, which
have many ages here flourished in a worshipful degree." Hugh de
Accalen is the first recorded ancestor; he was living in 1155; from
whom the present Sir Thomas Dyke Acland is twenty-second in lineal
descent. Killerton, in the parish of Broad-Clist, purchased at the
beginning of the seventeenth century, is the present seat of the
family. Columb-John, an ancient Elizabethan mansion in the same
parish, now pulled down, was the earlier residence of the Aclands,
who were remarkable for their royalty during the Civil Wars.
Younger branch. Acland of Fairfield, Baronet 1818.
See Gilbert's Survey of Cornwall, i. 559; Prince's Worthies of
Devon, p. 18; Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 407; and Lysons, cxiii.
ARMS.--_Checky argent and sable, a fess gules_. This coat was borne
by M. John Acland, as appears by the Roll of Arms of the reign of
Richard II. According to Prince, _three oak-leaves on a bend between
two lions rampant_, was also borne at this time by this family.
Present Representative, Sir Thomas Dyke-Acland, 10th Baronet.