[Illustration] This is a branch of the extinct family of the Lords
Alington, of Horseheath, in Cambridgeshire, who were originally of
Alington, in the same county, soon after the Conquest. The family
descend from a younger son of Sir Giles Alington, and were seated at
Swinhope in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
See Clutterbuck's History of Hertfordshire, ii. 542; and Collectanea
Topog. et Genealog. iv. 33-53, and note 2, p. 39. For Horseheath,
see Topographer, ii. 374.
ARMS.--_Sable, a bend engrailed between six billets argent_.
Present Representative, George Marmaduke Alington, Esq.
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