[Illustration] Descended from Paul Winnington, living in 1615,
great-grandson of Robert, who was son of Thomas Winnington of the
Birches, in the county of Chester, living in the reign of Henry VII.
This Thomas represented a younger branch of the Winningtons, of
Winnington, in the same county, descended from Robert, son of
Lidulfus de Croxton, who took the name of Winnington in the reign of
Edward I., on his marriage with Margery, daughter and heiress of
Robert de Winnington, living in the fifty-sixth of Henry III.
Stanford, formerly the seat of the Salways, came to the Winningtons
in the early part of the reign of Charles II., on the marriage of
Sir Francis Wilmington and Elizabeth Salway.
See Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. ii. p. 112, vol. iii. pp. 74 and
93; Pedigree privately printed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, from an
original MS. _penes_ Sir Thomas Winnington, Bart.; and Nash's
Worcestershire, vol. ii. p. 368.
ARMS.--_Argent, an inescucheon voided, within an orle of martlets
sable_.
Present Representative, Sir Thomas Edward Winnington, M.P. for
Bewdley, 4th Baronet.