Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
ROBERTS Walter Roberts inherited Leigham Court, Streatham, from his great-uncle Sir John Howland, (dsps 1649), and assumed the
name Howland, but dying sp, he bequeathed the manor to his nephew Sir Thomas Roberts, 4 th Bart., (d.1706 aged 47), whose 2 nd son Sir Walter
Roberts, 6 th Bart., (dspm 1745), left a daughter and heir Jane who carried Leigham Court to her husband George, 3 rd Duke of St. Albans, qv.
(VCHS iv 97)
Arms: Azure on a chevron Argent three mullets Sable.
Crest: An eagle displayed Argent gorged with a chaplet Vert. (BGA)
ROBERTS Sir Owen Roberts, DL, JP, MA, DCL (Oxon), of Henley Park, Guildford, (1835-1915), Clerk and Master of the Worshipful
Company of Clothworkers, was eldest son of Owen Roberts, of Dinas, Caernarvonshire.
Arms: Per fess Sable and Or a lion rampant counterchanged holding between the forepaws a knight's helmet Proper and in chief two
leopards' faces jessant-de-lys of the second.
Crest: A lion, rampant per fess Sable and Or gutté counterchanged holding in the dexter forepaw a branch of three roses Argent
stalked and leaved Proper and resting the dexter hind paw on two annulets interlaced of the second.
Motto: Dum spiro spero. (FD7)
ROBERTS Sir George Roberts, 1 st and last Bart., of Martholme, Wandsworth, (1859-1950), was of Martholme, Parkside, Wimbledon.
Arms: Azure on a fess dancetté between in chief two lions rampant and in base a garb Or three estoiles of the field.
Crest: Issuing from a coronet composed of six pheons set upon a rim Or a demi stag Proper gorged with a collar engrailed Gold.
Motto: Audaces fortuna juvat. (DPB1936)
ROBERTS The Rev. John Drew Roberts, of Queenhill Road, Sanderstead, (b.1863), son of Michael Roberts of Kilmoney Abbey, (1817-
82).
Arms: Azure on a chevron Argent cotised Or three mullets of six points Sable pierced of the field.
Crest: On a mount Vert an eagle displayed Ermine wings Argent wreathed round the neck with ivy Proper.
Motto: Post funera virtus.
The family originally bore the arms as: Azure on a chevron Argent three mullets Sable. (FD7)
ROBERTS Fox-Davies recorded Edward Roberts of Tulse Dale Villa, Lower Norwood, (presumably deceased in 1929), as father of
George Roberts of Tulse Dale Villa.
Arms: Gules a chevron Ermine cotised Argent between two pheons in chief of the last and in base a plate.
Crest: Upon the battlements of a tower a falcon rising Proper belled Gold supporting with the dexter claw an anchor Or. (FD7)
ROBERTS of Camberwell, also of Ombersley, Worcestershire, and Seedley, Lancashire.
Arms: Ermines a goat passant Argent horned and unguled and between three annulets Or.
Crest: On a mount Vert a holly tree Proper in front thereof a goat statant Argent armed and unguled Or gorged with a collar gemel
Sable in the mouth a sprig of holly also Proper.
Motto: Ewch ymlaen, (Go forward). (BGA)
ROBERTS post ROBERTS-AUSTEN Fairbairn records Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen, formerly Roberts, KCB, DCL
(Dunelm), FRS, of Blatchfield, Chilworth, (1843-1902), Professor of Metallurgy, School of Mines, as using
Crests: 1, Upon the battlements of a tower Or a tilting spear fessways thereon a roebuck sejant Argent attired Or (Austen); 2, On the
battlements of a tower Proper a falcon rising Proper supporting with the dexter claw an anchor Or (Roberts). (FBC)
ROBERTS-WEST Charles Robert Roberts-West, JP, of Stafford House, Cheam, (b.1849), younger son of Philip Joseph Roberts-West,
17 th Lancers.
Arms: Argent a fess dancetté Pean.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Gold a griffin's head Pean beaked and eared Or. (FD7)
ROBERTSON The Rev. Nevill Warham Robertson, MA (Oxon), (1890-1970), Perpetual Curate of St. Paul's, Wimbledon, 1931-37, was 2 nd
son of Herbert Robertson, JP, MA (Oxon), of Huntington Castle, Co. Carlow, Hasketon Manor, Suffolk, and Thornleigh, Clapham Common,
(1849-1916), by his wife Helen Alexandrina Melian, (d.1933), eldest daughter and coheir of Alexander Durdin, LL.D, JP, of Huntington Castle,
(1821-92).
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Gules on a fess between three wolves' heads erased close to the skull Argent a man in chains all Proper
(Robertson); 2 and 3, Argent on a chevron Azure three wolves' heads erased Or (Durdin).
Crest: A dexter cubit arm erect holding a falchion enfiled with an antique crown all Proper.
Motto: Ramis micat radix. (IFR; BLG8, 9)
ROBERTSON Colonel John Robertson, CIE, IA, of Liddington Hall, Ryde's Hill, Guildford, (b.1837), eldest son of George Robertson, of
Perth.
Arms: Gules on a fess between two wolves' heads erased in chief Argent and in base an imperial eagle of France grasping in its
claws a thunderbolt Or two basket-hilted swords in saltire Proper.
Crest: A dexter hand erect couped at the wrist holding a royal crown all Proper.
Motto: Virtutis gloria merces. (FD7)
ROBINSON of London and Kingston-upon-Thames.
Arms: Vert a fret Ermine, on a chief Or three escallops of the second.
Crest: A stag head erased.
From the monument in Kingston Church to Samuel Robinson, (d.Nov 16, 1625) Secretary of the company of Merchant Adventurers of England.
Motto: Sol nobis munera. This is an anagram upon his name monument in Kingston Church.
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