Sir John Harrington of

Hornby, Lancashire Hornby is a village and former civil parish from Lancaster, now in the parish of Hornby-with-Farleton, in the Lancaster district, in the county of Lancashire, England. The village is on the A683 and at the confluence of the River Wenning and ...

(before 1336 – 1359), was a fourteenth-century

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and founder of the

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Harrington

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in the North of England, known as the Harringtons of Farleton and Hornby. They were a

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of the Harringtons of

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, Sir John being the second son of the first Lord Harrington, who died in 1347. At some point he married Katherine Banastre. Sir John the younger held Farleton manor jointly with Katherine for a

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rent of an annual payment of one rose, and suit at his father's

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. In 1354, Henry, Duke of Lancaster granted Harrington a lease of a manor in Hornby; Harrington already held Bolton-le-Moors, Chorley, and Aighton, '' jure uxoris''.Not the principal manor, with the castle, held by Sir Robert Neville. He died on 1 August 1359: his lands passed in quick succession to his eldest son, Robert, to his brother Thomas (who both died in 1361), and thence to his Harrington's youngest son Nicholas.

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