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JOHN KNIGHT FOTHERINGHAM, who died on December 12 of last year, was the greatest authority of his time on ancient chronology. The name Fotheringham is derived from the Manor and Castle of Fotheringay, held in the twelfth century by the royal family of Scotland as part of the Honour of Huntingdon in Northamptonshire. Mr. Walter de Fodringaye was one of the executors of Devorgilla, Lady of the Manor and wife of John de Baliol in 1289, and was appointed by her as the first principal of Baliol (Balliol) College, Oxford. By their close connexion with the House of Baliol, some of the Fotheringay family settled in Scotland at the end of the thirteenth century and the name was changed to Fotheringham. One William Fodringhay had a charter from David II of lands in Aberdeen and Banff. In 1296 Hugh de Foderingaye of Perthshire and Roger, vicar of Kilmuir in Ross-shire, did homage to Edward I. Duncan, Bishop of Dunkeld, granted Fordell, County Perth, to Walter de Fotheringham in 1340.
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LANGDON, S. Dr. J. K. Fotheringham, F.B.A.. Nature 139, 788–789 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139788a0
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