[Illustration] The name is derived from Boreton, in the parish of
Condover, in Shropshire, an estate which remained in the family
until the reign of James I., although the Burtons became resident at
Longner, in the same county, prior to the reign of Edward IV.
"Goiffrid de Bortona," (Burton,) one of the foresters of Shropshire,
in the reign of Henry I., is the first recorded ancestor. The senior
line of this house terminated with Thomas Burton, who died unmarried
in 1730, and whose sister carried the Longner estate to the Lingen
family, who have assumed the name of Burton (see p. 198.) Thomas,
fifth son of Thomas Burton, of Longner, is the ancestor of the
present family, and of the Marquess of Conyngham (elder brother of
the late Lord Londesborough). He went to Ireland in the reign of
James I., and died there in 1665. His great-grandson married the
heiress of Conyngham. The late Lord assumed the name of Denison on
succeeding to the estates of his uncle W. J. Denison, Esq.
See Archdall's edition of Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, vol. vii. p.
173; and Morris MSS.
ARMS.--_Per pale azure and purpure, a cross engrailed or between
four roses argent_, granted in 1478, and commemorative of the
devotion of this house to the White Rose of York.
Present Representative, William Henry Forester Denison, 2nd Baron
Londesborough.
+Gentle.+
RAWDON OF RAWDON-HALL, MARQUESS OF HASTINGS 1816 EARL OF MOIRA IN
IRELAND 1761; BARONET 1665.
[Illustration] Rawdon, in the parish of Guiseley in this county, is
the original seat of this ancient family, which is traced to Thor de
Rawdon, whose son Serlo lived in the reign of Stephen. Rawdon
remained the family residence till early in the seventeenth century,
when Sir George Rawdon, the then head of the house, removed into the
North of Ireland, and was seated at Moira, in the county of Down,
where the family principally lived till the match with the heiress
of Hastings in 1752.
See Whitaker's Leeds, vol. i. p. 171; Brydges's Collins, vol. iv. p.
606; Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 467; and Archdall's Lodge,
vol. iii. p. 95.
ARMS.--_Argent, a fess between three pheons sable_.
Present Representative, Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon
Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings.