[Illustration] This is a younger branch of an ancient Lincolnshire
family, according to Wotton, to be traced to Sir Hercules Tyrwhitt,
living in the tenth of Henry I., and raised to eminence by Sir
Robert Tyrwhitt, Justice of the Common Pleas and King's Bench in the
reign of Henry IV. He was seated at Kettleby, in that county, which
remained the residence of the elder branch, created Baronets in
1611, until its extinction in 1673. A younger son was of Scotter, in
the same county, the ancestor of the present family, of whom John,
fifth son of the Rev. Robert Tyrwhitt, married a descendant of the
Jones's of Shrewsbury, and by her acquired the Stanley-Hall estate,
and took the name of Jones, but the present Baronet has since
resumed the ancient name of Tyrwhitt.
See Blakeway, p. 240; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 178; Camden's Remains,
p. 151; Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 115 and "Notices and Remains of
the Family of Tyrwhitt," &c. "printed not published." 8vo. n.d. [By
R. P. Tyrwhitt, Esq. of the Middle Temple, eldest son of Richard
Tyrwhitt, late of Nantyr Hall in Denbighshire, Esq. younger brother
of the first Baronet.]
ARMS.--_Gules, three tyrwhitts or_.
Present Representative, Sir Henry Thomas Tyrwhitt, third
Baronet.
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