John Norton, 5th Baron Grantley

John Richard Brinsley Norton, 5th Baron Grantley, FSA, FRNS (1 October 1855 – 5 August 1943), was a British peer from an English landowning family. He became known also as an antiquary and a numismatist.

The Right Honourable

The Lord Grantley
Born(1855-10-01)1 October 1855
Died5 August 1943(1943-08-05) (aged 87)
London
NationalityBritish
Alma materHighgate School
Harrow School
University of Dresden
Spouse(s)(1) Katharine Buckner Norton, née McVickar
(2) Alice Jones

Early life

Norton was born in Florence, Italy, the son of Thomas Norton, 4th Baron Grantley and his wife, Maria, née Federigo, and a grandson of Caroline Norton, the writer. He was educated at Highgate School from 1867 until 1869,[1] and then at Harrow School and the University of Dresden. He inherited his father's title in 1877 and was at some time a captain in the Middlesex Yeomanry.

Estates

Grantley was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Numismatic Society and the British Numismatic Society.[2] His country seats were Weeke Manor in Winchester and Markenfield Hall in Ripon. He also owned Elton Manor in Nottinghamshire for a time, but seems hardly to have lived there.[3] He purchased the Red Rice estate in 1913.

Family

In 1879, Grantley married Katharine Buckner Norton, née McVickar (died 1897), the former wife of his cousin, Charles Grantley Campbell Norton. She was the daughter of Commodore William Henry McVickar, US Navy, of New York. They had six children.

  • Hon. [unnamed] Norton (born and died 25 January 1889)
  • Hon. Richard Henry Brinsley Norton, later 6th Baron Grantley
  • Hon. Joan Mary Conyers Norton (10 November 1879 – 22 July 1942), married 11 February 1903 Edmund Henry Bevan JP, of Hilston Park, Monmouthshire (died 3 November 1945), son of Thomas Bevan of Stone Park, Greenhithe, and had issue.
  • Hon. Eleanour Trehane Norton (18 July 1881 – 16 March 1951)
  • Hon. Winifred Chapple Norton (18 July 1881 – 11 July 1914), married 26 June 1907 William Galbraith Tennant, eldest son of John Tennant, of The Boltons, London, and had issue.
  • Hon. Katharine Edith Carlotta Norton (18 December 1883 – 9 February 1961)

He married secondly, in 1899, Alice Jones (died 1942), the illegitimate daughter of Thomas Jones, 7th Viscount Ranelagh.

On Grantley's death in 1943, his titles passed to his only surviving son, Richard Henry Brinsley Norton (6th Lord Grantley), a film maker and husband of Jean Mary Kinloch.

Arms
Coat of arms of John Norton, 5th Baron Grantley
Crest
A Moor's Head affrontée couped at the shoulders wreathed round the temples with Laurel proper and around the neck a Torse Argent and Azure
Escutcheon
Azure a Maunch Ermine surmounted by a Bend Gules
Supporters
Dexter: a Lion; Sinister: a Griffin, both Argent and ducally gorged Or and pendent from the coronets by a Ribbon Gules a Shield of the Arms of Norton
Motto
Avi Numerantur Avorum (I follow a long line of ancestry)[4]

Sources
  1. Ed. Boreham, J. Y. Highgate School Register 1838–1938 (4th ed.). p. 56.
  2. "Lord Grantley – Obituary" (PDF). London: The British Numismatic Society. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  3. Lord Grantley: Silver Spoon: being extracts from the random reminiscences of Lord Grantley (London: Hutchinson, 1954), p. 17.
  4. Latin Dictionary. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
Thomas Norton		 Baron Grantley
1877–1943		 Succeeded by
Richard Norton
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