Mark Lindley‑Highfield of Ballumbie Castle has long‑standing family ties to Warwickshire. His father was born in Edgbaston and his mother in Coleshill. His parents married at St Mary Magdalene Church, Tanworth‑in‑Arden, and his brother lives in Kenilworth. Mark himself was born in Edgbaston, then part of Warwickshire, and attended Tanworth‑in‑Arden Church of England Primary School for part of his Primary Education. Both sets of his grandparents lived for a time in Tanworth‑in‑Arden.

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Mark’s mother lived at Quaint Ways on Broad Lane, and her great‑aunt married into the Truslove family of Manor Farm, Napton‑on‑the‑Hill. His maternal grandfather was born in Grandborough, and a great‑aunt on his maternal grandmother’s side lived in Hampton‑in‑Arden. Mark also descends from King Edward I and from Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, through established genealogical lines.

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Additional family links extend into nearby parts of Worcestershire and Oxfordshire, including Drakes Broughton, Badsey, Pershore, Enstone, Chipping Norton, Sandford St Martin, and Sibford Gower.

 

Mark is the Lord of the Manor of Pillerton Priors, Warwickshire, and descends from Hugh de Grandmesnil, the Domesday holder of the manor. He is also distantly related to the Mills family, who held the manor in later centuries.  This is not a title of nobility, but a manorial lordship, namely an historic form of landholding. In Mark’s case, the conveyance included the waste and commons of the manor.