[Illustration] This is said to be a Norman family, and to have been
originally settled in the county of Durham. Kirk-Harle was inherited
from Johanna, daughter of William, son of Alan del Strother, in the
time of Henry IV.
See Hodgson's History of Northumberland, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 246; and
Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 433.
ARMS.--_Quarterly sable and argent, a plain cross counter quartered
of the field_. Another coat, viz. _Argent, five lozenges conjoined
in pale azure, in the dexter chief an escucheon of the second_, is
given in Courthope's Debrett's Baronetage.
Present Representative, Sir Lambton Loraine, 11th Baronet.