Sir John Harrington

Sir John Harrington of Hornby, Lancashire (About 1310 – 1359), was a fourteenth-century knight and founder of the medieval Harrington dynasty in the North of England, known as the Harringtons of Farleton and Hornby. They were a cadet branch of the Harringtons of Aldingham, Sir John being the second son of the first Lord Harrington, who died in 1347. At some point he married Katherine Banastre. for a peppercorn rent of an annual payment of one rose, and suit at his father's court. He died on 1 August 1359: his lands passed in quick succession to his eldest son, Robert, to Robert's brother Thomas (who both died in 1361), and thence to his Harrington's youngest son Nicholas.