This surname is derived from an official title. 'the pinder,' an impounder of strayed cattle; v. Pinner. 'Pyndare of beestys, pynnar, inclusor': Promptorium Parvulorum 'A pynder, inclusor': Herrtage's Catholicism Anglicum The final 'd' in Pindard is excrescent.

Hugh le Pinder, Lincolnshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Walter le Pinder, Nottinghamshire, ibid.

Henry le Pynder, c. 1300. Writs of Parliament.

John le Pindere. Excerpta e Rotulis Finium in Turri Londinensi.

John le Pinder. Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinesi.

1661. William Pindar and Catherine Jorden: Marriage Lic (Faculty Office).

1749. Married — John Pinder and Mary Butterfield: St. George, Hanover Square.

= Pounder, q.v.

Walter le Pinder.—Hundred Rolls ‘The Pindar (or Pinder) of Wakefield’ (George a Green) is the subject of one of the Robin Hood ballads.

She doth not only think of lusty Robin Hood, But of his merry man, the Pindar of the Town Of Wakefield, George a Greene.—Drayton, Poly-Olbion, xxviii, 70-2.

To pind is to impound an animal, and a Pinderis a petty manorial officer, whose duty is to shut up strange cattle straying upon the common pasture. The Nominale M.S. has "Inclusor, a pynder." Halliw. Le Pinder. H.R.

The same as Pinder and Le Pinder, and perhaps Pinner and Pyner; from pinder, one whose duty it is to take possession of all stray cattle, and drive them to the pound until they are claimed.

Le Pinder or le Bailli, probably descended from William, a Norman of distinction, Dapifer to Earl Warrenne t. William I., whose son Wymer Dapifer was living 1086 (Domesd.). From him descended the family of De Gressenhall, of whom William de G. t. Henry II. had several brothers, of whom John le Pinder (le Bailli) was father of Richard le P., living 1252 (Roberts, Excerpta, ii. 127), whose son, with Wymar his brother, gave lands to Castle-Acre (also benefited by Wymer Dapifer, and others of the family; Blomefield, ix. 168, vii. 519, vi. 35, &c.). In the next generation Thomas le P. was of Lincoln, where the family remained till recently, and from which sprang the Pinders, now Beauchamp, Earls Beauchamp.

Pindar or Pinder has been a characteristic name of Lincolnshire and Notts for at least six centuries, Le Pinder being the ancient form of the name in Notts and in Glentham, Lincolnshire, in the reign of Edward I. (H. R.). Pynder and Pindar were Leake and Benington names in the reign of Edward III. (T.). A family of gentry named Pindar resided at Owston in the 17th and 18th centuries (residing at Brumby Wood Hall last century), one of the ancestors being John Pindar, attorney, who lived in the time of Charles II. (Sto.).

Pinder has been a characteristic name of Notts and Lincolnshire for six centuries, and occurs in both counties as Le Pinder in the reign of Edward I. (H. R.). In the 17th century there were several Notts freeholders named Pinder, residing at Awkley, Misson, Akering, and other places (Harl.). At present they are mostly to be found around Newark, and are still represented at Misson.