[Illustration] This ancient Norman family is said to be descended
from Sir Humphry de Wyvill, who lived at the time of the Conquest,
and whose descendants were seated at Slingsby in this county; the
more modern part of the pedigree begins with Robert Wyvill of Ripon,
whose son was of Little Burton, in the reign of Henry VIII.; from
thence the family migrated to Constable-Burton, about the end of the
reign of James I. During the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century,
the Wyvills were distinguished by their loyalty and consequent
sufferings in the royal cause. An elder line of this family, on whom
the Baronetcy, created in 1611, has descended, is said to be
resident in Maryland, in the United States of America.
See Leland's Itinerary, vol. iv. pl. i.; Whitaker's Richmondshire,
vol. i. p. 322; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 232.
ARMS.--_Gules, three chevronels interlaced vaire, and a chief or_.
The arms are founded upon the coat of Fitz Hugh, and may be taken as
a proof of high antiquity.
Present Representative, Marmaduke Wyvill, Esq.