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SMITH-BINGHAM of Addington House
Henry Buckley Bingham Smith-Bingham. Served in the Matabele Campaign, and
with the Rhodesian Horse in the Boer War. Born 25/5/1866, married 2/6/1908,
Marian Florence (d. 23/7/1947) daughter of Sir William Robinson, GCMG, sometime
Governor of Trinidad & Hong Kong, and died 18/12/1920. Eldest son of the Rev.
Oswald Smith Bingham of Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, azure, a bend cotised between six crosses patée Or, 2nd and
3rd, sable, on a chevron raguly, plain cotised, between ten crosses patée fitchée, six
in chief and four in base, all Or, three fleurs-de-lis azure. (BLG 1952)
SPENCER
Peter Spencer of Bulawayo
Azure fretty Or, a horse rampant argent crined and unguled of the second between
three escallops gold. (Govt Register No.388)
SPENCER-NAIRN
Sir Douglas Leslie Spencer Spencer-Nairn, 2nd Baronet. Formerly of Villa Franca,
Glendale. Born 24/12/1906, married 1stly 20/1/1931 (m. diss. by div. 1946)
Elizabeth Livingston only daughter of the late Arnold J. Henderson and has issue. He
married 2ndly, 22/11/1946, Louise, daughter of the late Frederick Vester and had
further issue.
Per fess argent and sable, on a chaplet four escallops all counterchanged, in the chief
point a crescent of the second for difference. (BP 1953, 1970)
SPRING
Trooper H.S. Spring. Accompanied the Pioneer Column to Mashonaland. Attested on
12/3/1890, (No.432). Discharged on account of ill-health on 16/6/1891. His brother,
Francis Raymond, joined the Matabeleland Mounted Police on 16/5/1894 (No. 180).
Descendants of Thomas Spring of Lavenham, Suffolk, who d. 18 Henry VI, 1440 and
Sir William Spring (Bt. 1641) of Packenham, same co.
Argent, a chevron between three mascles gules. (Burke)
STAPLETON
Louis Henry Stapleton, nephew of Miles Thomas Stapleton, 8th Baron Beaumont.
Served in the Matabele Campaign, 1893, took part in the Jameson Raid, 1895,
(wounded) and in the South African War (1899 -1900) and in World Wars I and II.
Born 25/7/1874, married 2/7/1908, Annetta Lima Smith, elder daughter of the late A.
Perossi and died 9/2/1949 leaving issue, one daughter.
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, argent, a lion rampant sable (STAPLETON), 2nd and 3rd,
argent, two bars and in chief three escallops azure (ERRINGTON). (BP 1953)
STAPLETON-COTTON
Lt. Col. Robert Francis Stapleton-Cotton, served (inter alia) in the Matabele Campaign
1896 - 97. Born 15/2/1876, married 22/7/1905, Violet Maude, 3rd daughter of the
late Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 4th Baronet. 3rd son of Col. Richard Southwell
George Stapleton-Cotton who was the 2nd son of Wellington Henry Stapleton-Cotton,
2nd Viscount Combermere.
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, azure, a chevron between three hanks of cotton argent, in chief,
pendant from a ribbon gules a representation of the medal presented to the 1st
Viscount Combermere after the battle of Salamanca, 2nd and 3rd, argent, a lion
rampant sable. (BP 1953).
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