[Illustration] Richard de Okelandre, the patriarch of his family, is
supposed to have been of Norman origin, and was Lord of Nunwell, in
the Isle of Wight, the present seat, from the time of King John.
Seventeenth in direct male descent from Richard, was Sir John
Oglander, Knt., a great sufferer, both in person and fortune, for
his zealous attachment to his sovereign King Charles I. He died
before the Restoration, but his loyalty was recognised by the
baronetcy conferred upon his son, a worthy successor to his father,
by Charles II. in 1665.
See Hutchins's History of Dorset, i, p. 450, for an account of the
family under "Parnham," which came from the heiress of Strode; see
also Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 492.
ARMS.--_Azure, a stork between three cross-crosslets fitchée or_.
Present Representative, Sir Henry Oglander, 7th Baronet.