A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
e thefamily has resided since the destructivefire at Bramham Park, which swept awayso much old aristocratic magnificence. Ahouse in Bingley, a large market town inthe west-riding, which chiefly belongs toMr. Lane Fox, and the Court, near Lanes-^ borough, Ireland. 495 THORNTON, OF BROCKHALL.… … I. John. II. Thomas-Cooke. III. William. IV. Edward. I. Maria.II. Eleanor. Mr. Thornton succeeded his father in 1790. He isa magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the county ofNorthampton, and was its high sheriff in 1798. The Thorntons were originally settledat Newnham, in Northamptonshire, but,…
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