Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
SMITH of Badwell Ash, Suffolk, of Hunston, Suffolk, of Ashfield Hall, Suffolk, and of Chertsey.
Arms: Sable a cross Or.
Crest: A greyhound couchant Or collared and lined Sable.
As borne (SV1623) by Thomas Smith of Chertsey, Robert Smith of London, leather-seller, and John Smith of Ashfield Hall, sons of Robert
Smith of Badwell Ash, (whose brother Thomas was of Ashfield), son of Robert Smith alias Hovell of Badwell Ash, whose 3 rd son, John Smith,
was of Ashfield, and whose 4 th son, Arthur Smith, was of Hunston.
SMITH of Merrow and of Rake House in Witley from 1614 to 1675 and afterwards of Milford House. Ext.1764.
Descended from Henry Smith of Rake, living 1623, 3 rd son of Anthony Smith of Merrow, a native of Yorkshire.
Arms: Argent on a bend between two unicorn heads erased Azure three lozenges Or, a mullet for difference.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Gules a demi-bull rampant Argent charged with a mullet for difference.
From armorial glass in Rake House, and as borne (SV1623) by Anthony Smith, (d.1637), of Rake, one of the Clerks of the Spicery to James I.
(SAC xviii 54)
Anthony Smith, (d.Oct 6, 1669), obtained a confirmation of this coat, Jun 29, 1667, with permission to omit the mullet and the lozenges.
This last coat, with an unicorn issuing from a ducal coronet for crest, appears in armorial glass at Rake House. (SAC xviii 54)
Thomas Smith, Mayor of Guildford, 1658 and 1687, son of Henry Smith, Mayor of Guildford, 1627, son of Thomas Smith, Mayor of Guildford,
1587 and 1595, eldest son of Anthony Smith of Merrow, represented the elder line of this family, and bore the 1623 Visitataion coat and crest
without the mullet. The Rev. Dr Richard Smith of Shere, son of John Smith of Merrow, 2 nd son of Anthony Smith of Merrow, bore them with a
crescent for difference
SMITH of Merton Abbey.
Arms: Erminois three besants.
Crest: A demi-wild man Proper in his right hand five ears of barley Vert and in his left a flint stone Proper his hair Sable wreathed
round the temples Proper.
From the hatchment in Merton Church to Rear Admiral Isaac Smith, (d.Jul 2, 1831). (The Wimbledon and Merton Annual, 1905. p.56)
SMITH of Mitcham.
Arms: Argent on a chevron engrailed Azure between three greyhound heads erased Sable collared Gules as many estoiles Or.
Crest: A stag head couped Gules attired Argent. *
As borne (SV1623) by George and Thomas Smith, both of Mitcham, sons of Thomas Smith of Mitcham.
* Burke gives this as:
Arms: Argent on a chevron engrailed Azure between three greyhounds' heads erased Sable collared Or ringed Gules as many
estoiles (another mullets) of the fourth.
Crest: A stag's head erased Gules attired Argent. (BGA)
SMITH of Pepperharrow Park.
Arms: Per pale Or and Azure a chevron between three lions passant guardant counterchanged, a crescent in chief for difference.
As borne (SV1623) by William Smith of Ryall in Pepperharrow, and by Richard Smith of Pepperharrow, sons of Henry Smith of Pepperharrow
Park, (d.May 12, 1626), son of Thomas Smith of London, son of Christopher Smith of Hackthorpe, Lincolnshire. But the brass in Pepperharrow
Church to Henry Smith, (d.1626), gives the arms of Smith of Westenhanger, Kent i.e .Azure a chevron engrailed between three lions passant
gardant Or, a crescent for difference.
Crest: A leopard face Or. (SAC xxxi 113)
SMITH of St. Saviour's, Southwark.
Arms: Sable a fess Erminois cottised Or between three martlets of the last each charged with an ermine spot.
Crest: A greyhound sejant Gules collared and with a line reflexed over the back Or, charged on the shoulder with a mascle Argent.
From the monument in St. Saviour's Church to Elizabeth, (d.Jun 1, 1775), wife of Edmund Smith, who died in 1779. (SAC xxii 61)
SMITH of Selsdon House in Croydon, from 1809.
Arms: Or on a chevron cottised between three demi-griffins couped, the two in chief respectant, Sable a mullet for difference.
Crest: An elephant head erased Or eared Gules charged on the neck with three fleur-de-lys, two and one, Azure. *
Motto: Tenax et fidelis.
As borne by George Smith, (d.Dec 26, 1836) ** brother of Robert Smith, 1 st Baron Carrington. (Brayley iv 105)
* The family now bears the fleurs-de-lys Sable.
** His eldest son George Robert Smith of Selsdon House, (1793-1869), was High Sheriff of Surrey, 1852. His 2 nd son Oswald Smith, (1794-
1863), had a daughter Frances Dora, (d.1922), who married, 1853, Claude, 11 th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, (1824-1904), and thus became
great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
SMITH of Silver Street, Cheapside, London and of Wandsworth, Extinct l627.
Arms: Sable on a fess between three saltires Or a fleur-de-lys of the first for difference.
Crest: Two snakes erect, addorsed and in saltire Azure, their tails knotted in base, langued Gules.
As borne by Henry Smith, (d.Jan 23, 1627), citizen, salter and Alderman of London, a benefactor by his will of most Surrey parishes, the son of
Walter Smith of Gloucester and Wandsworth, 6 th son of Thomas Smith of Campden, Gloucestershire.
Henry Smith, however, sealed with A fess between three fleur-de-lys on occasion. (HG ii 78, 80)
SMITH of Southwark.
Arms: Argent a lion passant Sable.
Crest: A dexter arm in armour embowed grasping the haft of a broken tilting spear Argent.
As borne by Robert Smith of Southwark, son of John Smith of Sudbury, Suffolk (SV1623).
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