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 | | Genealogical and Heraldic DICTIONARY of the British Empire by Sir Bernard BURKE |
| | | A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z |  | ABDY | Sir William, of Felix Hall |
| Arms | Or, two chevronels between three trefoils, slipped sable. | Crest | An eagle's head, couped, proper. | | | Mottoes | Tenax et fidelis. |
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| | Arms | Or, two chevronels between three trefoils, slipped sable. | Crest | An eagle's head, couped, proper. | | | Mottoes | Tenax et fidelis. |
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| ABERCORN | Marquess of (James Hamilton, KG., P.C.), Viscount Hamilton |
| Arms | Quarterly : first and fourth, gu., three cinquefoils, pierced, ermino-for Hamilton ; second and third, ar., a ship, with sails furled,sable-for the EARLS OF ARRAN ; in the point of honour, over all, an escutcheon, az., charged with three fleurs-de-lis, or, for CHATELHERAULT. | Crest | Out of a ducal coronet, or, an cak oak fructed and penetrated transversely in the main stem by a frame-saw, ppr., the frame gold. | Supporters | Two antelopes, ar., horned, ducally gorged, chained, and hoofed, or. | Mottoes | "Through"; and "Sola nobilitas virtus". |
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| ABERCROMBY | Baron (Georges-Ralph Abercromby). |
| Arms | Or, a fesse, embattled, gu., therefrom issuant in chief a dexter arm, embowed in armour, ppr., garnished, or, encircled by a wreath of laurel, the hand supporting the French standard, in bend sinister, also ppr., : in base a chev., indented, gu., between three boars' heads erased, az. | Crest | A bee, ppr. | Supporters | Two greyhounds, per fesse, ar., and or, collared and lined, gu., each charged on the shoulder with a thistle, ppr. | Mottoes | Vive ut vivas. |
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| ABERCROMBY | Sir Georges-Samuel |
| Arms | Quarterly : firstand fourth, arg., a chevron, gu., between three boars' heads, erased, az., langued, of the second ; second and third quartes , Ist and 4th, arg., a lion, passant-guardant, gu., crowned with an imperial crown ; 2nd and 3rd, arg., three papingoes, vert, beaked and membered, gu. | Crest | A falcon, rising, belled, ppr. | Supporters | Two greyhounds, arg., collared, gu. | Mottoes | Above the crest, "Petit alta". Under the shield, "Vive ut vivas". |
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| ABERDEEN | Earl of(Georges Hamilton Gordon) |
| Arms | Quarterly, first and fourth, az., three boars'heads, couped, within a double tressure, flowered and counterflowered with roses, thistles, and fleur-de-lis, or ; second and third, quarterly, first and fourth, gu., three cinquefoils, pierced ermine, second and third, argent, an ancient ship with the sails furled, sable ; the whole within a bordure of the last. | Crest | Two arms, from the shoulder, naked, holding a bow, proper, to let an arrow fly ; in commemoration of the deed by which Richard C?ur de Lion was slain at Chaluz, in Limousin, by one of the family's supposed aucestors, Bertrand de Gourdon, in 1199. | Supporters | On either side an antelope, argent, armed, or, gorged with a collar, flowered and counter-flowered, and line reflexed over the back, az., the collar charged with three roses, of the second. | Mottoes | Ne nimium |
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| ABERGAVENNY | Earl of (William Nevill), Viscount Nevill, and Baron Abergavenny |
| Arms | Quarterly, first and fourth, gu., on a saltier, ar., a rose, of the field, barbed and seeded, ppr., for NEVILLE of RABY ; second and third, or, fretty, gu., on a canton, per pale, erm. and gold, a galley, sa., for NEVILLE of BULMER. | Crest | A bull, ar., pied, sa., armed gold, and charged on the neck with a rose, barbed and seeded, ppr. | Supporters | Two bulls, ar., pied, sable, armed, unguled, collared and chained, and at the end of the chain two staples, or., Badges- on the dexter, a rose, gu., seeded or, barbed vert ; on the sinister, a portcullis, or. | Mottoes | Ne vile velis. |
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| ABINGDON | Earl of (Montagu Bertie) and Baron Norreys |
| Arms | Quarterly : first and fourth, arg., three battering rams, barways, in pale, ppr., headed and garnished, az. ; second and third, sa., a shattered castle, triple-towered, arg. | Crest | A Saracen's head, couped at the breast, ppr., ducally crowned, or, charged on the chest with a fret, az. | Supporters | Dexter, a friar, vested in russet grey, with a crutch, rosary, &, all ppr. ; sinister, a savage, ppr., wreathed about the temples and waist with leaves, vert, each supporter charged on the head with a fret, az. | Mottoes | Virtus ariete fortior. |
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| ABINGER | Baron (Robert-Campbell Scarlett) of Abinger |
| Arms | Chequy, or and gu., a lion, rampant, erm. ; on a canton, az., a castle, triple-towered, arg. | Crest | A Tuscan column, chequy, or and gu., supported on cither side by a lion's jamb, erm., erased, gu. | Supporters | Two angels, vested, arg., tunics, az., wings, or ; in the exterior hand of each a sword, in bend, ppr., pommel and hilt, gold. | Mottoes | Suis stat viribus. |
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| ACHESON | Baron - see Gosford. |
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| ACLAND | Sir Thomas-Dyre, of Columb-John |
| Arms | Chequy, ar. and sa., a fesse, gules, quartering Wrothe and Dyre. | Crest | A man's hand, couped at the wrist, in a glove, lying fessways, thereon a falcon, perched, all ppr. | | | Mottoes | Inébranlable. |
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| ACLAND | Fuller-Palmer-Acland, Sir Peregrine-Palmer, of Fairfield |
| Arms | Quarterly : first and fourth, Acland, same as Acland of Columb-John ; second Palmer, or, two bars, sa., charged with six trefoils, slipped, argent, in chief a greyhound, current, sa. ; third, Fuller, arg., three bars and a canton, gules. | Crest | Acland, same as Acland of Columb-John. Palmer, a demi-panther guardant, argent, spotted gules, vert, or, and azure, alternately ; flames issuant from the mouth and ears, and holding a palm branch, porper. Third, Fuller, on a ducal coronet, gules, a lion's head, argent. | | | Mottoes | "Inébranlable", for ACLAND. Over the crest "Palma virtuti", for PALMER. |
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| ACTON | Dalberg-Acton, Sir John-Emerich-Edward, of Aldenham Hall. |
| Arms | Quarterly : Ist and 4th, gu., two lions, passant, arg., between nine cross-crosslets, fitchée, or, Acton. 2nd and 3rd, quarterly : Ist and 4th, az., six fleurs-de-lis ; arg. ; a chief dancettée of the last ; 2nd and 3rd, or, a cross patonce, gules ; over all, an escutcheon of the first, thereon a tower of the second, and chief dancettée of the last ; Dalberg. | Crest | Within a torse, a human leg and thigh in armour, couped, and dropping blood, all ppr., embellished, or. | | | | |
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| ADAIR | Sir Robert Shafto, of Flixton Hall, Suffolk |
| Arms | Per bend, or and arg., three dexter hands, couped and erect, gu., quarteriug Shafto. | Crest | A man's head, affrontée, couped at the neck, ppr. | | | Mottoes | Loyal au mort. |
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| AFFLECK | Sir Robert, of Dalham Hall |
| Arms | Az., three bars, sa. | Crest | An car of wheat, bearded, ppr. | | | Mottoes | Pretiosum quod utile. |
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| AGNEW | Sir Andrew, of Lochnaw |
| Arms | Ar., a chev. Between two cinquefiols in chief, gu., and a saltier, couped in base, az. | Crest | An eagle, issuant and regardant, ppr. | Supporters | Two heraldic tigers, proper, collared and chained, or. | Mottoes | Consilio, non impetu. |
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| AILESBURY | Marquess and Earl of (Georges-William-Frederick Brudenell-Bruce), Earl Bruce, Viscount Savernake, and Baron Bruce |
| Arms | For BRUCE, quarterly : Ist and 4th, or, a saltier and chief, gu., on a canton, ar., a lion rampant, az. For BRUDENELL, 2nd and 3rd, ar., a chevron, gu., between three morions, or steel caps, az. | Crest | Ist, a lion, statant, az. : 2nd, a sea-horse, naiant, ppr. | Supporters | Two savages, ppr., wreathed round the loins and temples, vert, each holding a banner of the arms. | Mottoes | Think and thank. |
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| AILSA | Marquess of (Archibal Kennedy, K.T., Baron Ailsa |
| Arms | Ar., a chev., gu., between three cross-crosslets fitchée, sa., all within a double tressure, flory counterflory, of the second. | Crest | A dolphin, naiant, ppr. | Supporters | Two swans, ppr. Beaked and membered, gu. | Mottoes | Avise la fin. |
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| AINSLIE | Sir Robert-Sharpe of Great Torrington |
| Arms | Or, a cross, flory, gules, with a mullet for difference. The present representative of the family, Col. H.F. Ainslie, has two knights in chai mail, as suuporters. | Crest | A dexter hand and arm, grasping a scimitar, ppr. | Supporters | Of the Baronet - Pro rege et patriâ. Of Col. H.F. Ainslie - Pro patriâ saepe, pro rege semper. | | |
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| AIRLIE | Alyth and Lintrathen, Earl of (David-Graham-Drummond Ogilvy), and Baron Ogilvy |
| Arms | Ar., a lion, passant guardant, gu., crowned with an imperial crown, and collared with an open one. | Crest | A lady, from the waist upwards, holding a portcullis. | Supporters | Two bulls, sable, unguled and horned, vert, with a garland of flowers about their necks. | Mottoes | A fin. |
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| ALBEMARLE | Earl of (Georges-Thomas Keppel), Viscount Bury, and Baron Ashford |
| Arms | Gu., three escallop shelles, ar. | Crest | Out of a ducal coronet, or, a demi-swan, close, ppr. | Supporters | Two lions, or, ducally crowned, of the last. | Mottoes | Ne cede malis. |
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| ALBOROUGH | Earl of (Benjamin-O'Neale Stratford), Viscount Amiens, Viscount Aldorough of Belan, and Baron of Baltinglass |
| Arms | Barry of ten, ar. and az., a lion, rampant, gules. | Crest | A dexter arm, embowed in armour, holding in the hand, ppr., a scimitar, ar., hilt and pommel, or. | Supporters | Dexter, a fermale figure, representing Fame vested, ar., winged, or, in her right hand a trumpet, gold, in the left an olive-branche, vert, the sword belt, gu. ; sinister a man, in complete armour, ppr., garnished, or spurs, sword shield, and spear, of the last, sword-belt, gu., holding with his right hand the spear, and upon his left arm the shield. | Mottoes | Virtuti nihil obstat et armis. |
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| ALEXANDER | Sir Robert, of the city of Dublin |
| Arms | Per pale, ar. and sa., a chevron, and in base, crescent counterchanged ; on a canton, az., a harp, or, stringed arg. ; in the sinister chief point, a mullet, of the last. | Crest | A dexter arm embowed, holding a dagger, all ppr., charged on the wrist with a mullet, or. | | | Mottoes | Per mare, per terras |
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| | Arms | Az., a bear's head, arg., muzzled, gu., between, in chief, two fleur-de-lis, or, and, in base, a fir-tree, eradicated of the last, surmounted of a sword, in bend. | Crest | A hawk's head, erased, ppr. | | | Mottoes | Above the crest - Vincit veritas. |
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| ALLEYNE | Sir Reynold-Abel, Of the Island of Barbadoes |
| Arms | Per chevron, gu. and erm., in chief, two lions heads, erased, or. | Crest | Out of a ducal coronet, a horse's head, ar. | | | Mottoes | Non tua te moveant, sed publica vota. |
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| AMHERST | Earl (William-Pitt Amherst), of Aracan, Easr Indies, Viscount Holmesdale |
| Arms | Gu., three lances, or tilting-spears, erect, in fesse, or. Headed, az. | Crest | On a mount, vert, three like spears, one erect, and two in saltier, girt with a wreath of laurel, ppr. | Supporters | Two Canadian war Indians, of a copper colour, rings in their ears and noses, and bracelets on their wrists and arms, ar., cross belts over their shoulders, buff ; to one a powder-horn, pendent, to the other a scalping knife, their waists covered with a short apron, gules, gaiters, blue seamed, or, legs fettered and fastened by a chain to the bracelet on the outer wrist, ppr. ; the dexter Indian holding in his exterior hand a battle-axe, the sinister holding in his exterior hand a tomahawk, thereon a scalp, all ppr. | Mottoes | Constantiâ et virtute. |
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| ANDERSON | Sir Charles-Henry-John, of Broughton |
| Arms | Ar., a chevron, between three crosses, flory, sa. | Crest | A water-spaniel, passant, or. | Supporters | Gnaviter. | | |
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| ANDERSON | Sir James-Caleb, of Fermoy |
| Arms | Quarterly : or and argent, a saltier, engrailed per saltier, gu. and sa., between a mullet pierced in chief, two boars'heads, erased, and respecting each other, in fesse, of the fourth, and in base a trefoil, slipped, vert. | Crest | A tree, ppr. Surmounted of a saltier, humetté, sa. | | | Mottoes | Staud sure. |
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| ANGLESEY | Marquess of (Henry Paget), Earl of Uxbridge |
| Arms | Sa., on a cross engrailed, between four eagles, displayed, arg., five lions, passant-guardant, of the field. | Crest | A demi-heraldic tiger, salient, sa., armed, ducally gorged, and tufted, arg. | Supporters | Two heraldic tigers, sa., ducally gorged, tufted, maned, and tusked, arg. | Mottoes | Per il suo contrario. |
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| ANNESLEY | Earl (William- Richard Annesley), Viscount Glerawly |
| Arms | Paly of six, arg. and az., over all a bend, gu. | Crest | A moor's head, couped at the shoulders, in profile, ppr., wreathed about the temples, arg. and az. | Supporters | Dexter, Roman knight in armour, or, short sleeves and apron, az., face, arms, and legs, bare, the latter sandelled, or, on his head a helmetorcap, gold, on the top thereof three feathers, arg. and az., in his exterior hand an antique shield, ppr., thereon a female head ; sinister, à Moorish prince in armour, or, short sleeves and apron, az., fase, neck, arms, and legs, ppr., on the latter, boots, gold, behind him a sheaf of arrows, ppr., fastened by a pink ribbon, wreathed round the temples, arg. and az., in his exterior hand, a bow, ppr. | Mottoes | Virtutis amore. |
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| ANSON | Sir John-William-Hamilton |
| Arms | Arg., three bendlets, engrailed, gules, and in the sinister canton, à crescent, of the second. | Crest | Out of a ducal coronet, or, a spear, erect, ppr. | | | Mottoes | Nil desperandum. |
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