HOUELL OR HOVELL

The descendants of the Norman Houell were seated in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, at Hillington in the former and at Ashfield in the latter, bearing for arms, "sa. a cross. or." One of them, Richard Hovell, squire of the body to Henry V., was ancestor of the family of Hovell, which adopted the surname of Smith, and the co-heiress of which, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Smith, alias Hovell, Esq., married in 1730, the Rev. Thomas Thurlow, Rector of Ashfield, Co. Suffolk, and had three sons, EDWARD Lord Thurlow, Lord Chancellor,Thomas, Bishop of Durham (whose son Edward, late Lord Thurlow, took the additional surname of Hovell), and John, Alderman of Norwich.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey Roll).