The Noble and Gentle Men of England / or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.

by Evelyn Philip Shirley

Present Representative, Francis Charles Turvile, Esq.

Farnham of Quorndon.

This ancient family was certainly seated at Quorndon two descents before the reign of Edward I. In that of Henry VI. Thomas, second son of John Farnham and Margaret Billington, living in 1393, founded a junior branch denominated of "The Nether-Hall." He was the ancestor of the present family, who also descend in the female line from the elder branch, denominated "of Quorndon," by the marriage of the coheiress in 1703 with Benjamin Farnham, of the Nether-Hall.

See Nichols's History of Leicestershire, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 103.

Arms.—Quarterly or and azure, in the first and second quarter a crescent interchanged.

Sir Robert de Farnham, of the county of Stafford, bore in the reign of Edward II. Quarterly argent and azure, four crescents counterchanged. (Roll.)

Present Representative, Edward Basil Farnham, Esq. late M.P. for North Leicestershire.

Beaumont of Coleorton, Baronet 1660.