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

For the origin of the family, see Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd ed. p. 316; Hasted's Kent, i. 55; ii. 687; iii. 589; and Brydges's Collins, vii. 77.

Arms.—Per fess azure and or, a pale counterchanged, three buck's heads erased of the second.

Present Representative, George Henry Roper Curzon, 16th Baron Teynham.

Knatchbull of Mersham-Hatch, Baronet 1641.

Hasted gives no detailed pedigree of this family before the purchase of the manor and estate of Hatch, by Richard Knatchbull, in the reign of Henry VII. It appears however that the first recorded ancestor, John Knatchbull, held lands in the parish of Limne, in this county, in the reign of Edward III., where some of the name remained in that of Charles I. There are pedigrees in the Visitations of Kent of 1574 and 1619.

See Philpot's Kent, p.199; Hasted's Kent, iii. 286; and Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 228.

Arms.—Azure, three cross-crosslets fitchée in bend or, cotised of the same.

Present Representative, Sir Norton Joseph Knatchbull, 10th Baronet.

Filmer of East-Sutton, Baronet 1674.