three griffins' heads erased of the first. Crest: - A talbot passant proper." One of Sir Giles Alington's direct descendants, William Alington, became Baron Alington of Killard in the peerage of Ireland in 1642, and they were raised to that of England in 1682; the last Lord Alington d.s.p. in 1722. Arms: Sa. a bend engr. between eight billets ar. Crest: A talbot pass. ppr." Another notable descendant is the Very Reverend Cyril Argentine Alington (d. 1955), Chaplain to H.M. King George V, Dean of Durham, and sometime Headmaster of Eton College. His daughter, Elizabeth Hester Alington (1909–1990), married Sir Alexander or Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995), 14th Earl of Home, Lord Home of the Hirsel, and sometime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. References History of Parliament ALINGTON, Giles (1499-1586) of Horseheath, Cambs Burke, John, Esq., History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1834, vol. 1, p. 571. Burke, Sir Bernard Burke, CB, LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, London, 1883, p. 4. Clay, John W., F.S.A., (editor) The Visitations of Cambridgeshire, 1575 & 1619 by Henry St. George, London, 1897, pp. 14–17. Campling, Arthur, F.S.A.,The History of the family of Drury, London, 1937. Mee, Arthur, The King's England London, 1965 revision of the 1937 edition. Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England - Cambridgeshire, London, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 410–411. Lamble, B., Wills of our Ancestors in Cambridgeshire Family History Society Journal, February 1994, pp. 185–7. Cambridgeshire Family History Society Journal, August 1994, pp. 285–292. Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry Baltimore, Md., 2004, p. 276. Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry Baltimore, Md., 2005, p. 288. 1500 births 1586 deaths Knights Bachelor People from Horseheath Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Liverpool High Sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire English MPs 1529–1536 English MPs 1539–1540 English MPs 1553 (Mary I) English MPs 1554 English MPs 1558