Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
St. JOHN Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Rowland Tudor St. John, DLI, of 29 Old Deer Park Gardens, Richmond, (1882-1948), was 3 rd
son of the 16 th Baron St. John, (1844-1912). Of the same family, Robert St. Andrew St. John, merchant, of 2 Windermere Avenue, Merton Park,
later of 281 Clapham Road, (b.1887), elder son of Robert Newell St. John, (1850-97), and descended from the 10 th Baron St. John, (d.1757); and
Major-General Roger Ellis Tudor St. John, CB, MC, of Harelaw, Gorse Hill Road, Virginia Water, (b.1911), elder son of Major Beauchamp
Tudor St. John, (1880-1965), and descended from the 14 th Baron St. John, (1811-74).
Arms: Argent on a chief Gules two mullets Or.
Crest: On a mount Vert a falcon rising Or belled of the last ducally gorged Gules.
Motto: Data fata secutus. (BP99, 105)
St. JOHN Baron St. John of Battersea. Oliver St. John, 1 st Viscount Grandison of Limerick, and Baron Tregoze, (dsp 1630),
married Joan, widow of Sir William Holcroft, or Rycroft, and daughter and heir of Henry Roydon, of Battersea, qv, with whom he obtained, in
1607, that manor and that of Wandsworth. He bequeathed these manors to his nephew Sir John St. John, 1 st Bart., of Lydiard Tregoze, (d.1648),
whose grandson Sir Henry St. John, 4 th Bart., of Battersea, (1652-1742), was created Baron St. John of Battersea, 1716. The present holder of the
title is his descendant, the 6 th Viscount Bolingbroke and 7 th Viscount St. John, Captain Stratford Allen Gerald St. John, RN, of Thornbury,
Shamley Green, son of Vice-Admiral Francis Gerald St. John, CB, MVO, RN, (1869-1947), is descended from Frederick, 3 rd Viscount St. John
and 2 nd Viscount Bolingbroke, (1734-87).
Arms: Argent on a chief Gules two mullets Or.
Crest: A mount Vert thereon a falcon rising Or ducally gorged Gules.
Supporters: Dexter, A falcon wings displayed Or ducally gorged Gules; Sinister, An eagle wings displayed Or charged on the breast with
the Hames. *
Motto: Nec quaerere, nec spernere honorem. (BP105)
* The Hames is a badge of the family of Tregoze, viz: On an antique shield rimmed Gold party per pale Argent and Gules a crescent Sable
thereon a label of three points Or.
St. JOHN post St. JOHN-MILDMAY Sir Henry Paulet St. John, 2 nd Bart., MA (Oxon), (b.1737), acquired Betchworth Castle and a part of
Dorking by marriage, 1763, to Dorothy Maria, (d.1768 aged 26), daughter and coheir of Abraham Tucker, qv. Their son Sir Henry Paulet St.
John-Mildmay, 3 rd Bart., MA (Cantab), (1764-1808), sold both properties. (VCHS iii 146, 149).
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent three lions rampant Azure armed and langued Gules (Mildmay); 2 and 3, Argent on a chief Gules
two mullets Or (St John).
Crest: A lion rampant guardant Azure armed and langued Gules.
Supporters: Dexter, A greyhound Argent ducally gorged and chained Or; Sinister, A falcon wings expanded Or ducally gorged and belled
Gules.
Motto: Alla ta hara. (BGA)
St. JOHN'S COLLEGE, Cambridge The College acquired the manor of Broomhall in Egham, 1522. (VCHS iii 424)
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, France, (modern); 2 and 3, England, all within a bordure gobony Argent and Azure. (CCH)
Crest: An eagle issuing out of a ducal coronet all Or. (BGA)
St. JOHN'S COLLEGE, Oxford The arms of the College, impaling those of Archbishop William Laud, qv., who was President
of St. John's, 1611-21, are on a stall in the Chapel of the Archbishops Palace, Croydon. (VCHS iv 212)
Arms: Gules on a canton Ermine a lion rampant Sable all within a bordure of the last charged with eight estoiles Or in chief an
annulet of the last. (WEC)
St. LEGER Sir Thomas St. Leger, (executed 1483), was granted the manor of Compton Eastbury by Edward IV.
Arms: Azure fretty Argent a chief Or. (VCHS iii 19)
St. LEONARDS Baron see SUGDEN
St. MARY OVERY Priory of, Southwark.
Arms: Argent a cross lozengy Gules in dexter chief a mullet or a cinquefoil of the last. (WEC)
(VCHS iii 172) blazons this as: Argent a cross indented Gules in the dexter quarter a lozenge of the last.
St. MARY'S HOSPITAL or PRIORY without Bishopsgate. In 1304-5 Edward I granted property in Shalford and the
advowson to the Hospital or Priory of St. Mary without Bishopsgate. The Hospital held the manor of Long Ditton from the early 13 th century
until the Dissolution, apparently by grant from William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, (dsp 1227).
Arms: Per pale Argent and Sable a cross moline counterchanged in the dexter chief quarter a martlet Gules (or Sable).
(VCHS iii 110, 518; WEC)
St. PAUL'S Dean and Canons of. The Manor of Barnes was granted to the Dean and Canons of St. Paul's before 1086.
(VCHS iv 4)
Arms: Gules two swords in saltire Argent the hilts in base Or in chief the letter D Gold. (WEC)
SALEMAN of Horley.
Arms: Argent a double-headed eagle displayed Sable charged on the breast with a leopard face Or.
From the surcoat of a monumental effigy in Horley Church and as quartered by Sanders of Charlwood.
SALESIAN COLLEGE Chertsey.
Arms: Per pale Or and Argent two keys addorsed in bend sinister the bows interlaced in base Gules and Azure within an orle of six
sprigs of oak fructed Proper on a chief per pale Azure and Gules a lily flower and a chalice Gold with the Host also Argent. Granted 1964.
(CCH)
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