Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
ROWCLIFFE Edward Lee Rowcliffe, DL, JP, of Hall Place, Cranleigh, (1824-98), High Sheriff of Surrey, 1895, was succeeded by his
nephew, Edward Lee Rowcliffe of Hall Place, solicitor, (1869-1941), son of John Richard Rowcliffe, JP. The said nephew was father of Major
Edward Hugh Lee Rowcliffe, TD, RA, of Hall Place, which he sold, 1948. (BLG18)
Arms: Argent on a chevron engrailed between three lions' heads erased Gules a mullet of six points between two chess rooks of the
first all with a bordure of the second.
Crest: A lion's head erased Gules in front thereof two chess rooks Argent.
Motto: Volens et valens. (FD7)
ROWE see FISHER-ROWE
ROWLAND of Barnes and Egham.
Arms: Sable a pile wavy Argent.
Crest: A raven Sable pecking at a torteau.
As borne (SV1623) by Thomas Rowland of Barnes and John Rowland of Egham, sons of Thomas Rowland of London, son of Thomas Rowland
of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk.
ROWLES Fairbairn records Rowles, of Surrey, as using for
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet a demi griffin segreant. (FBC)
ROWLEY Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George Charles Erskine Rowley, 3 rd Bart., Royal Welch Fusiliers, (1844-1922), was of Eastfield
Lodge, Epsom Road, Guildford. His grandson Sir George William Rowley, 5 th Bart., (1896-1953), was at one time of Wrottesley House,
Streatham. Joshua Christopher Rowley of The Stud House, Home Park, Hampton Court Palace, (b.1928), younger son of Sir William Joshua
Rowley, 6 th Bart., (b.1891).
Arms: Argent on a bend engrailed between two Cornish choughs Sable three escallops of the field.
Crest: A mullet pierced Or.
Supporters: Two Cornish choughs Proper navally crowned Or each gorged with a riband therefrom pendent a representation of the Order
of Maria Theresa.
Motto: Ventis secundis. (BP105; FD7)
ROWLEY Baron Langford. Clotworthy Rowley, formerly Taylour, of Cooper's Hill, Surrey, (1763-1825), 4 th son of
Thomas, 1 st Earl of Bective, by his wife Jane, elder daughter of the Rt. Hon. Hercules Langford Rowley married, 1794, his cousin Frances,
(d.1860, aged 85), daughter and heir of the Hon. Clotworthy Rowley, and assumed the name of Rowley in lieu of that of Taylour, 1796. He was
created Baron Langford of Summerhill, Co. Meath, 1800. (GEC)
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent on a bend cotised Gules three mullets Or (Rowley); 2 and 3, Ermine on a chief Gules a fleur-delys
between two boars' heads couped and erect Or (Taylour).
Crest: A wolf's head erased Argent collared Or and langued Gules.
Supporters: Two emblematical figures, the dexter representing Pallas, with a spear in her right hand, the sinister Temperance, holding a
bridle in her left hand, all Proper.
Motto: Bear and forbear. (BP58)
(DPB1868) records the dexter supporter as a figure of Minerva armed and vested Proper with a spear in the right hand.
ROXBY The Rev. Henry Roxby Roxby, LL.B, of Clapham Rise, also of Blackwood, Yorkshire, Vicar of St. Olave's Jewry, (1797-
1861), eldest son of Thomas Maude, of The Woodlands, Harrogate, Yorkshire, by his wife Jane, (b.1774), younger daughter and coheir of Henry
Roxby of Clapham Rise, (b.1741), assumed the surname of Roxby only, 1837, in compliance with his maternal grandfather's will. (BLG18)
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Per pale Ermine and Erminois on a chevron Gules between three rooks Proper two swords chevronwise
the points upwards of the last pommels and hilts Or (Roxby); 2 and 3, Argent three bars gemel Sable over all a lion rampant Gules charged on
the shoulder with a cross crosslet fitché Or the whole within a bordure engrailed of the third (Maude).
Crests: 1, A wolf's head erased per pale Argent and Vert gorged with a collar counterchanged in the mouth a branch of hop Proper
(Roxby); 2, Issuant from a wreath of laurel Vert a lion's head Gules charged on the neck with a cross crosslet fitché Or (Maude).
Mottoes: Perseverando; De monte alto. (BGA)
ROYAL ALEXANDRA AND ALBERT SCHOOL, Reigate.
Arms: Gules a lion rampant Or a chief of the last thereon a fountain between two oak trees eradicated fructed Proper.
Motto: Nisi Dominus frustra. Granted 1953. (CCH)
ROYDON of Battersea, later of Pyrford and Chertsey.
Arms: Per pale Argent and Gules a griffin segreant counterchanged.
As borne (SV1623) by William Roydon of Pyrford and Robert Roydon of Chertsey, sons of William Roydon of Pyrford, son of Robert Roydon
of Battersea, whose younger brother, Henry Roydon of Battersea, had a daughter and heir, Joan, married to Oliver St. John, Viscount Grandison
and Lord Deputy of Ireland.
ROYDS Vice-Admiral Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds, CB, CMG, of Highcoombe, Warren Road, Kingston Hill, (1874-1955), was
son of Ernest Edmund Royds, JP, of Rochdale, Lancashire, (1848-92).
Arms: Ermine on a cross engrailed between four lions rampant Gules a spear in pale Proper between four bezants.
Crest: A leopard sejant Sable bezanté collared Argent resting the dexter paw on a pheon Or.
Motto: Semper paratus. (FD7)
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