[Illustration] This is a younger branch of an ancient family seated
at Bradfield, in Uffculm, as early as the reign of Henry III, For
many years the Walronds, living at their venerable mansion of
Bradfield, were a powerful family in Devonshire. The male line of
this the principal branch has become extinct since the time of
Lysons, and the representation devolved on the present family,
descended from Colonel Humphry Walrond, a distinguished
Loyalist during the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century. On the
fall of the Royal Cause he emigrated to Barbadoes, of which island
with the aid of other Royalists he made himself Governor. Philip IV.
of Spain conferred upon him the title of Marques de Vallado, and
other Spanish honours, for, as the still existing patent states,
"services rendered to the Spanish Marine."
See Lysons, clviii. and 540; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p.
484.
ARMS.--_Argent, three bull's heads cabossed sable_.
Present Representative, Bethell Walrond, Esq.