[Illustration] This is a Warwickshire family of good antiquity,
traced to Robert de Boreton, grandfather of William, who lived in
the reign of Edward III. In that of Henry VI. by the heiress of
Allesley, the family became possessed of the manor of Lawford, which
remained their residence till the murder of Sir Theodosius Boughton,
Baronet, by his brother-in-law Mr. Donnellan, in 1781. After that
event, a younger branch succeeding to the estate and title, Lawford
Hall was pulled down, and the ninth Baronet, on inheriting the
property of the Rouses of Rouse-Lench, in this county, assumed that
name, and made it his seat and residence.
See Dugdale's Warwickshire, second ed., vol. i. p. 98; Nichols's
Leicestershire, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 202; and Wotton's Baronetage,
vol. ii. p. 220.
ARMS.--_Sable, three crescents or_.
Present Representative, Sir Charles Henry Rouse Boughton, 11th
Baronet.