[Illustration] This ancient family is traced to the commencement of
the fourteenth century, when Robert Wykeham was Lord of Swalcliffe,
the original seat of the Wykehams in this county, and possessed by
the late W. H. Wykeham, Esq., who died in 1800, and still, I
believe, belonging to his daughter the Baroness Wenman. Tythrop came
from the Herberts by will to the late P. P. Wykeham, Esq. uncle of
Lady Wenman.
The relationship of the great William of Wykeham, Bishop of
Winchester, with this family is a disputed point, for which see
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, ii. 225, 368, iii. 178,
245; see also the Topographer and Genealogist, iii. 49, for a very
interesting paper on this subject by C. Wykeham Martin, Esq., M.P.
Younger Branch. Wykeham Martin, of Leeds Castle, Kent.
ARMS.--Allowed by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, in 1571.--_Argent, two
chevronels sable between three roses gules, barbed and seeded
proper_. This coat was borne by the great Bishop, though when he was
Archdeacon of Lincoln he bore but _one chevron_ between the roses.
But the herald Glover attributed a variation of the arms of
Chamberlaine, derived from the Counts of Tankerville, to Wykeham of
Swalcliffe, viz: _Ermine, on a bordure gules six mullets or_.
Present Representative, Philip Thomas Herbert Wykeham, Esq.