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Clutterbuck Professional researchers have carefully scrutinised such ancient manuscripts as the Ragman Rolls (1291-1296), a record of homage rendered to King Edward 1st England, the Curia Regis Rolls, the Pipe Rolls, the Hearth Rolls, parish registers, baptismal, tax records and other ancient documents and found the first record of the name Clutterbuck, in Gloucestershire where they were seated from early times, approximately 1400’s and granted land there. The family name Clutterbuck emerged as a notable English family in Gloucestershire where they were recorded as a family of great antiquity seated at Eastington with manor and lands in that shire. Their name was originally spelled Cloerterbook. For those interested in further research seek “Collections Relating to the Family of Clutterbuck”, compiled by Reverend R.H.Clutterbuck, pt 1, 48pp., Stroud also “An account of the Principal Branch of the Family of Clutterbuck” from the collections of R.H.Clutterbuck, T.W.Caltell , and W.P.W. Phillimore, by M.E.N. Witchell and C.Roy Huddleston, Gloucester, Bellows, 1924 Contemporary notables of this surname include General Richard Clutterbuck, General Walter Clutterbuck, Admirable Sir David Clutterbuck, Edmund Clutterbuck Brewery Chairman, Sir Peter Clutterbuck Diplomat, Sir Alexander Clutterbuck, High Commissioner to India and Canada. Lineage Eastington, Gloucestershire, England, descended from Richard Cloerterbook, of King's Stanley, died 1590; also Sir Thomas Clutterbuck, merchant of London, son of John Clutterbuck of Bristol, grandson of William Clutterbuck of Eastington and was knighted at Whitehall, 4th August 1669; also seated at Warkworth, Northumberland, descended from John Clutterbuck of Newcastle on Tyne, second son of Richard Clutterbuck of Eastington; also seated at Newark Park, Ozleworth, Gloucestershire, descended from Eastington; also seated at Hardenhuish House, Wiltshire; also Ireland; a branch of Clutterbuck, of Eastington, established in Ireland by Major Samuel Clutterbuck, grandson of Thomas Clutterbuck, D.D., Archdeacon of Winchester, son of Samuel, third son of Richard Clutterbuck of Eastington. Arms Azure a lion rampant argent in chief three escallops of the second. Crest A buck statant argent between two laurel branches proper Or A hand holding a rose emerging from a crown