[Illustration] Engelard de Acton, of Acton-Pigot and Acton-Burnell,
was admitted on the Roll of Guild Merchants of Shrewsbury in 1209.
His descendant Edward de Acton, of Aldenham, married the coheiress
of Le'Strange, living in 1387, and with her acquired an estate in
Longnor, in this county. The baronetcy was the reward of loyalty in
the beginning of the great rebellion.
General Acton, Prime Minister to the King of Naples for twenty-nine
years, commencing in 1778, was a distinguished member of this
family.
See Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 398; Blakeway, pp. 54, 174.
ARMS.--_Gules, crusilly or, two lions passant in pale argent_. This
coat is evidently founded on that of Le'Strange.
Present Representative, Sir John Emerick Edward Dalberg Acton, 8th
Baronet.