[Illustration] This ancient family was certainly seated at Quorndon
two descents before the reign of Edward I. In that of Henry VI.
Thomas, second son of John Farnham and Margaret Billington, living
in 1393, founded a junior branch denominated of "The Nether-Hall."
He was the ancestor of the present family, who also descend in the
female line from the elder branch, denominated "of Quorndon," by the
marriage of the coheiress in 1703 with Benjamin Farnham, of the
Nether-Hall.
See Nichols's History of Leicestershire, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 103.
ARMS.--_Quarterly or and azure, in the first and second quarter a
crescent interchanged_.
Sir Robert de Farnham, of the county of Stafford, bore in the reign
of Edward II. _Quarterly argent and azure, four crescents
counterchanged_. (Roll.)
Present Representative, Edward Basil Farnham, Esq. late M.P. for
North Leicestershire.