550 OANtOK. 



possessing those excellencies which cannot fail to 

 excite admiration and respect. This family is of* 

 Norman extraction, and became possessed of the 

 lordship of Anlaby near Hall, in Yorkshire, in the 

 year 1100, by the marriage of the heiress of that 

 name. Thence came the Ganton branch in the 

 person of John, commonly called John de Ganton, 

 a younger son of Ralph Legard, of Anlaby Esq. 

 His son John died in 1643. John Legard, Esq., 

 grandson of this last gentleman, having- signalized 

 himself in the service of Charles II. ; under 

 the command of lord Fairfax, rose upon general 

 Lambert, and surprised York, in order to facilitate 

 the march of general Monk, from Scotland in 1660. 

 In consideration of these and other services of him- 

 self and his family, he was on the 29 Deer. 1C60, 

 created a baronet. He was at that time member of 

 parliament for Scarborough ; and in 1669 served 

 the office of bailiff of that borough. This gentleman 

 married Grace, one of the daughters of Conyers, 

 lord d'Arcy ; and afterwards Frances, eldest daugh- 

 ter and one of the co-heirs of Sir Thomas Widdring- 

 ton. By this second marriage the family became 

 allied to the noble family of Buckingham. 



Sir John, the first baronet, died at Ganton in 

 1678. Sir John Legard, the second successor to the 

 former, by Frances his second wife, was nominated 

 senior alderman of Scarborough, in the charter of 

 the 36 of Charles IJ., and served the office of mayor 

 in 1685. He died in 1715. Sir John his son, the 

 third baronet, died a bachelor in 1719, and was 

 succeeded by his brother Sir Thomas, who married 



