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Hatchment in St Margaret's Church, Sotterley, Suffolk (lozenge shaped for a female, with all black background) to Mary Thornhill, second wife and widow of Miles Barne (1718-1780) and eldest daughter of George Thornhill of Diddington, Huntleyshire. Miles Barne (1718-1780) was a Member of Parliament for Dunwich in Suffolk, and purchased Sotterley Hall in 1744 from Sir John Playter, 5th Baronet. He also acquired the rotten borough of Dunwich, (landedfamilies.blogspot.com) as he and several of his descendants served as an MP for Dunwich. The Barne family of Sotterley Hall was descended from Sir George Barne, Lord Mayor of London in 1552 and chief merchant of the Russia Company. (https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2019/11/396-barne-of-sotterley-hall.html) His descendant Frederick Barne (1842-1898) of Sotterley, MP for East Suffolk, married Lady Constance Seymour, a daughter of the 5th Marquess of Hertford. ( Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.105). Today Sotterley Hall is owned by Miles Robin Barne (born 1940), "who spent much of his early life undertaking farming in Papua New Guinea and Australia, where he retains large interests, and his experience there has informed his much-admired management of the Sotterley estate since 1979" (landedfamilies.blogspot.com). Arms: Quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Azure, three leopard's faces argent (Barne); (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.50)
• 2&3: Argent, a chevron azure between three Cornish choughs sable (Ashthorpe); (connection unexplained by pedigree in Burke, 1937)