Seaton Delaval is a township and village in the parish of Earsden 3 miles SW of Blyth in the county of Northumberland. The Delaval family has been associated with Seaton, later Seaton Delaval, since the 12th century. The first member of the Delaval family to come to England is believed to have been Hamo de la Val who came across from France with William the Conqueror. However, by the beginning of the 18th century the family had fallen on hard times and it was Admiral George Delaval (1660-1723), a distant cousin who lived at Dissington, north of Newcastle upon Tyne, who bought Seaton Delaval from his poorer relations