[Illustration] An ancient Cornish family, said to have been
originally of Upton, in that county, or, according to Prince in his
Worthies of Devon, named from Upton in the parish of Collumpton in
Devonshire, and fixed at Portlinch in the parish of Newton Ferrers,
by a match with the heiress of Mohun, about the end of the fifteenth
century. Here the elder branch was long seated, and became extinct
in 1709. The present family descend from a younger brother, who
settled at Lupton in Devonshire: his descendant was of Ingmire Hall
in Westmerland, derived from the heiress of Otway about the
beginning of the eighteenth century. The present representative,
succeeding to the estates of the Smyths of Ashton, assumed that
name, and was created a Baronet in 1859.
Younger Branches. Upton of Glyde-Court in the county of Louth,
descended from the third son of John Upton of Lupton, living in
1620; and Upton, Baron Templetown, descended from Henry second son
of Arthur Upton of Lupton. This Henry came into Ireland in 1598, a
captain in the army under the Earl of Essex, and established himself
in the county of Antrim.
See Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1701, p. 572; Westcote's
Devonshire, p. 519; and Archdall's Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vii.
p. 152.
ARMS.--_Sable, a cross moline argent_.
Present Representative, Sir John Henry Greville Upton Smythe,
Baronet.