[Illustration] The name is derived from Goring, in the rape of
Arundel, where the family can be traced to John de Goring, living in
the reign of Edward II. Burton, in this county, was the seat of the
principal and elder line of the family, created Baronets in 1662,
extinct in 1723. Of a younger branch was the celebrated George Lord
Goring 1628, Earl of Norwich 1644, (which titles were extinct on the
death of his third son, but heir, the second Lord, in 1670,) sprung
from the second son of Sir William Gorynge, of Burton, who died in
1553.
The present family is descended from the second son of Sir Henry
Goring, of Burton, Knight, who died in 1594. Highden was purchased
in 1647.
Younger Branch. Goring of Wiston, Sussex, descended from the second
marriage of Sir Charles Matthew Goring, of Highden, the fourth
Baronet, and the co-heiress of Fagg.
See Dallaway's Rape of Arundel, p. 281, who refers to Evidences
relating to the family of Goring, MSS. Coll. Arm. Philpot, F. 119;
Leland's Itin., vol. vi. fol. 17; Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, p.
132; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. ii. p. 71.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three annulets gules_.
Present Representative, Sir Charles Goring, 8th Baronet.
PELHAM OF LAUGHTON, EARL OF CHICHESTER 1801; BARON 1672; BARONET
1611.
[Illustration] The name is local, from Pelham, in Hertfordshire, the
seat of the ancestors of this family in the time of Edward I., and
probably even before the Conquest. In the 28th of Edward I., Walter
de Pelham had a confirmation grant of lands in Heilsham, Horsey, &c.
in this county. From the reign of Edward III. the Pelhams have been
a most important Sussex family; it was in that reign that Sir John
Pelham assumed the Buckle as his badge, in token of his claim to the
honour of taking John King of France prisoner at the battle of
Poictiers. Laughton belonged to the Pelhams before 1403, but has
been long deserted as the residence of the family.
See Brydges's Collins, vol. v. p. 488; Horsfield's Lewes; and
Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. iii. p. 211, for a curious
paper on the arms and badges of the Pelhams.
ARMS.--_Quarterly,_ 1 _and_ 4_, Azure, three pelicans argent,
vulning themselves proper;_ 2 _and_ 3_, Gules, two belts in pale
argent with buckles and studs or_.
Present Representative, Henry Thomas Pelham, 3rd Earl of Chichester.