Present Representative, James Hamerton, Esq.
Hotham of South Dalton; Baron of Ireland 1797; Baronet 1621.
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.
Boynton of Barmston, Baronet 1618.
Bartholomew de Bovington, living at the beginning of the twelfth century, stands at the head of the pedigree; other authorities mention Sir Ingram de Boynton of Aclam, (in Cleveland,) who lived in the reign of Henry III., as the first recorded ancestor. Barmston came from the daughter and coheir of Sir Martyn del See, about the end of the fifteenth century.