[Illustration] An ancient Derbyshire family, which can be traced to
the reign of Henry II. One of their most ancient possessions was
Langley-Meynell, in that county, an estate which remained in the
family till the end of the fourteenth century. A younger son at this
period was seated at Yeaveley, his grandson at Willington, both in
Derbyshire. Bradley, in the same county, became in the seventeenh
century, by purchase, the residence of a still younger branch,
descended from Francis, fourth son of Godfrey Meynell of Willington:
from him descends the present family, who were of Hore-Cross the
latter part of the last century. Temple-Newsom, in Yorkshire, was
inherited from the Ingrams by the present Mr. Meynell on the death
of the Marchioness of Hertford in 1835.
Younger Branch. Meynell of Langley-Meynell, Derbyshire, descended
from Francis, second son of Francis Meynell, of Willington, who died
in 1616.
See Leland's Itinerary, iv. fo. 17; and Topographer and Genealogist,
i. 439, and 494.
ARMS.--_Vaire argent and sable_. This was the coat of De-la-Ward, of
which house Hugh de Meynell married the heiress in the reign of
Edward III. The proper coat of Meynell was, _Paly of six argent and
gules, on a bend azure three horseshoes or_.
Present Representative, Hugo Charles Meynell-Ingram, Esq.
+Gentle.+