[Illustration] "Langton, Sir," exclaimed Dr. Johnson, alluding to
his friend Bennet Langton of Langton, at that time the accomplished
head of this very ancient family, "has a grant of free warren from
Henry the Second, and Cardinal Stephen Langton in King John's reign
was of this family." The name is derived from Langton-by-Spilsby in
Lincolnshire, a manor which has remained to the present day the
inheritance of this house, who are descended in the female line from
the Massingberds of Sutterton in this county.
Younger branch. The Langton-Massingberds of Gunby.
See Allen's History of the County of Lincoln, ii. 175; and Boswell's
Life of Johnson, ed. 1836, i. 294.
ARMS.--_Paly of six argent and sable, a bend or_.
Present Representative, Bennet Rothes Langton, Esq.