[Illustration] The younger, but, in England, the only remaining
branch of a very ancient family, denominated from Chetwynd, in
Shropshire, and of Baxterly, in this county, in the 37th of Henry
III. Sir William Chetwind was the first of the name seated at
Grendon, in the 39th of Edward III., his mother being daughter and
coheir of Sir Ralph de Grendon; but Ingestre, in Staffordshire,
which came from the heiress of Mutton, was the principal seat of the
Chetwinds, which was eventually carried by an heiress into the
Talbot family (now Earl of Shrewsbury).
Elder Branch. The Viscounts Chetwynd of Ireland (1717).
See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 1101; Erdeswick's
Staffordshire, ed. 1844, p. 61; Eyton's Shropshire, viii. p. 81; and
Archdall's Lodge, vol. v. p. 148.
ARMS.--_Azure, a chevron between three mullets or_. In the reign of
Edward II. Sir John Chetwind bore, _Azure, a chevron or_, without
the mullets; the present coat was borne by others of the family in
the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II. (Rolls.)
Present Representative, Sir George Chetwynd, third Baronet.