[Illustration] The name is derived from Skipwith, in the East Riding
of Yorkshire, and was first borne by Patrick, living in the reign of
Henry I., who was second son of Robert de Estotevile, Baron of
Cottingham in the reign of William the Conqueror. In the reign of
Henry III. the Skipwiths removed into Lincolnshire, and were seated
at Beckeby and Ormesby, in that county; a younger son of Sir
William Skipwith, of Ormesby, who died in 1587, was of Prestwould,
in Leicestershire. He was the ancestor of the Skipwiths of Newbold
Hall, created Baronet in 1670, extinct in 1790, and of the present
family, who for five generations were of Virginia, in America, where
the grandfather of the present Baronet was born.
See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 84; Nichols's Leicestershire,
vol. iii. pt. i. p. 368; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 536,
ARMS.--_Argent, three bars pules, in chief a greyhound courant
sable_.
Present Representative, Sir Peyton Estoteville Skipwith, 10th
Baronet.
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