AN ANCIENT FAMILY

Shannon News, 4 December 1925, Page 1

AN ANCIENT FAMILY

THE GRANT OF NOKeC^' FITZHERBERTS OELEBRATL . 800th ANNIVERSARY. Tlie following- appeared' in the London "Morning Post" of October 9:— A gathering- of considerable interest took place at Claridge's Hotel last night, whetn Lord Stafford, Sir Hug-o Fitz Herbert, Major W. H. Fitz Herbert, Captain Fitz Herbert, R.N., and lieut-enant-Colonel Norman Fitz Herbert were the hosts at a family dinner of the FitzHerberts to celebrate the eight hundredth-, anniversary of the grant of Norbury, Deroyshire, from the Prior of Tutbury, to their common ancestor William, son of Herbert, in 1,125. Lord Stafford, who is the twentyninth Lord, of. the Manor of Norbury, ana head of the family, ,has the original deed still in his possession. This ancient Derbyshire family has been settled in that county since 1125, and thos e present last night represented the Norbtiry, Somorsal-Herbert, and Tissingi.on FitzHerbierts. There \yere also present several i nembers from New Zealand, where a n timorous branch of the .family is establl shed. During the evening Lord Staffoi presented each guest with a photoj vraph of the 800 years' old deed.

Here follows a lonj ? list of members of th« family who w. ere invited: By way of addition n to the "Morning Post's", report it may be stated tliat each 'member o f the family in New Zealand has rec eived a photographic copy of the d© ed. LieutenantColonel Norman Fitzh erbert formerly lived at "Aberfeldie," Makirikiri,, and now resides at 35 I\ erna Gardens, Kensington, London. A lembers of the Fitzherbert. family ia the Dominion are the sons and daught ©rs of the late Arthur Fitzherbeit, of Marlon, and the late Anthony Fitzhert >ert, of Feildmg and Palmerston Noi th, and also Mr. W. L. Fitzherbert,. solicitor, of Palmerston North. l