Sir John Harrington of Hornby

Sir John Harrington of Hornby, Lancashire (before 1336 – 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 Banaster of Bolton. Sir John the younger held Farleton manor jointly with Katherine for a peppercorn rent of an annual payment of one rose, and suit at his father's court. In 1352, the duke of Lancaster granted Harrington the manor of Hornby; he already, jure uxoris held Bolton-le-Moors, Chorley, and Aighton. He died on 1 August 1359: his lands passed in quick succession to his eldest son, Robert, to his brother Thomas (who both died in 1361), and thence to his Harrington's youngest son Nicholas.