[Illustration] This is an ancient Shropshire house descended from
William de Whichcote, of Whichcote, in that county, in 1255. In the
reign of Edward IV., by marriage with the heiress of Tyrwhitt, the
family became possessed of Harpswell in this county, which for a
long time continued the residence of the Whichcotes.
See Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 13; and Allen's History of
Lincolnshire, i. 38.
ARMS.--_Ermine, two boars passant in pale gules_.
Present Representative, Sir Thomas Whichcote, 7th Baronet.
ANDERSON OF BROCKLESBY, EARL OF YARBOROUGH 1837, BARON YARBOROUGH
1794.
[Illustration] Roger Anderson of Wrawby, in this county, Esquire,
living in the latter part of the fourteenth century, and who came
from Northumberland, stands at the head of the pedigree. His
great-grandson Henry, also of Wrawby, was grandfather of Sir Edmund
Anderson of Flixborough, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, who died in 1605. He was the ancestor of the present family,
and of Sir Charles Anderson of Broughton in Lincolnshire, Baronet
1660, and of the Andersons of Eyworth in Bedfordshire, Baronets
1664, extinct in 1773. Brocklesby came from an heiress of Pelham, a
younger branch of the Pelhams Earls of Chichester.
See Wotton's English Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 191, vol. iv. p. 427,
and "The History of Lea," printed in 1841.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three crosses flory sable_.
Present Representative, Charles Anderson Pelham, 3rd Earl of
Yarborough.