[Illustration] The pedigree is traced to the sixth of Edward II.,
when John de Lister was resident at Derby. He married the daughter
and heiress of John de Bolton, Bowbearer of Bollond, and thus became
connected with this county. The elder line was of Mydhope, or
Middop, and afterwards, in the reign of Philip and Mary, of Thornton
in Craven, and became extinct in 1667. The present family is sprung
from Thomas, second son of Christopher Lister, who lived in the time
of Edward IV. The Listers were of Gisburn early in the sixteenth
century, the ancient seat of Arnoldsbiggin in that manor being their
seat for many generations. Lyster, of Rowton, in Shropshire, is
supposed to be a branch of this family, though there is no evidence
of the fact; Rowton has been in possession of the Lysters since
1482.
See Whitaker's Craven, ed. 1812, pp. 38, 103; and Brydges's Collins,
vol. viii. p. 584; and for Rowton, Blakeway's Sheriffs of Salop, p.
144.
ARMS.--_Ermine, on a fess sable three mullets or_. Lyster of Rowton
bears the mullets _argent_.
Present Representative, Thomas Lister, 3rd Baron Ribblesdale.