[Illustration] Peter de Trehouse, who assumed the local name of
Hotham, and was living in the year 1188, is the ancestor of this
family, who were of Scarborough in this county in the reign of
Edward I., a seat which continued the principal residence of the
Hothams for several centuries until it went to decay after the Civil
Wars in the seventeenth century. The siege of Hull in 1643, when Sir
John Hotham was Governor for the Parliament, and with his son was
discovered holding correspondence with the Royalists, for which they
both suffered death, will ever render this family historical.
See Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 473; the Scrope and Grosvenor
Roll, vol. ii. p. 306; and Oliver's Beverley, p. 509.
ARMS.--_Barry of ten argent and azure, on a canton or a raven
proper_. M. John de Hotham is stated in the Roll of arms of the
period of Edward III. to have borne, _Or, a bend sable charged with
three mullets argent voided gules_.
Present Representative, Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham.