Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
SOMERS of Clifton in Severn Stoke, Worcestershire, and White-Ladies in Worcester, Worcestershire, and after 1697 of Reigate Priory
and Brockmans in North Mimms, Hertfordshire. Baron Somers of Evesham, Dec 22, 1697. Extinct 1716.
The most famous member of this family was the statesman, John Somers, Baron Somers, (d.Apr 26, 1716), Lord High Chancellor of England
and leader of the Whigs, Son of John Somers of White-Ladies, attorney, son of Richard Somers, son of John Somers, 1589, both of Clifton and
White-Ladies.
Arms: Quarterly, Vert and Gules a daunce Ermine, in chief a lion passant between two martlets Argent. (Grazebrook ii 535)
Baron Somers, however, used: Vert a daunce Ermine. (Ibid and MB i 286)
Crest: A coat of mail hanging on a laurel tree all Proper, branches issuing from the arms.
Motto: Prodesse quam conspice. (MB i 286)
SOMERSET Charles Somerset, 1 st Earl of Worcester, (d.1526), who was granted lands at Kew in 1517, (VCHS iii 482), was ancestor of
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Somerset, KCB, KH, of Roehampton Lodge, (1794-1862), son of General Lord Charles Henry Somerset, (1767-
1831), and grandson of the 5 th Duke of Beaufort. Colonel Fitzroy Molyneux Henry Somerset, RE, of The Priory, Frimley, (1823-1901), was 3 rd
son of the Rev. Lord William George Henry Somerset, (1784-1851), and was also grandson of the 5 th Duke of Beaufort. Henry Charles Somers
Augustus Somerset, OBE, DL, JP, of The Priory, Reigate, (1874-1945), was son of Lord Henry Richard Charles Somerset, PC, DL, JP, (1849-
1932), and grandson of the 8 th Duke of Beaufort. The above named Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Somerset, (1794-1862) was grandfather of
Brigadier-General Charles Wyndham Somerset, CB, CMG, MVO, IA, of Edgecote, Richmond Hill, (1862-1938).
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure three fleurs-de-lys Or; 2 and 3, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or; all within a bordure
compony Argent and Azure.
Crest: A portcullis Or nailed Azure with chains pendent thereto Gold.
Motto: Mutare vel timere sperno. (BP105)
SOMERSET Earl and Duke of see BEAUFORT
SONDES of Sondes Place in Dorking and after 1475 of Throwley, Kent. Baron Sondes of Throwley, Viscount Sondes and Earl of
Feversham, Apr 8, 1676. Extinct 1677.
Arms: Argent three Moor heads in profile couped between two chevrons Sable.
Crest: A Moor head in profile couped Proper.
Supporters: Two Moors Proper, their heads encircled with chaplets of roses Gules and their waists with scarves Argent fringed Or, each
holding in the exterior hand a long dart point downwards and resting on the outward foot. (Doyle i 745)
SOPER William Garland Soper, JP, BA (London), of Harestone, Caterham, and of London, (b.1837), son of William Soper, of
Plymouth, was a County Councillor for Surrey.
Arms: Per pale Or and Gules on a saltire between sixteen billets a trefoil slipped all counterchanged; on an escutcheon of pretence
Argent a lion rampant reguardant Pean between four mullets of six points in cross Azure (Davis). *
Crest: A demi lion per pale Or and Gules holding in the mouth a trefoil slipped Vert and supporting a torch erect fired Proper.
(FD7)
* He married, 1860, Maria, daughter of George Davis, of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
SOUTHAMPTON Countess of see VILLIERS
SOUTHAMPTON Earl of see FITZWILLIAM and WROITHESLEY
SOUTHCOTE of Witham, Essex, and, from 1578 to 1727, of Albery Place in Merstham. Extinct 1751.
Descended from John Southcote, (d.Apr 18, 1585), of Witham and Albery, a Justice of the Queen’s Bench, son of William Southcote, 2 nd son of
Nicholas Southcote of Soutcote in Winkleigh, Devon.
Arms: Argent a chevron Gules between three coots Sable. (MB ii 260)
SOUTHCOTE of Woburn Farm in Chertsey.
Arms: Argent a chevron Gules getween three coots Sable.
As borne by Philip Soutcote, (d.1758), a cadet of Soutchote of Albery in Merstham.
SOUTHWARK London Borough of.
Arms: Gules on a cross Argent a wellhead between four cinquefoils Gules on a chief chequy Or and Vert a lymphad sails furled
Sable and a rose Gules barbed and seeded Proper.
Crest: An oak tree Proper fructed and dimidiating a garb Or both banded wavy per fess wavy Argent and Azure.
Supporters: Dexter, An Elizabethan player habited as for the role of Hamlet holding a skull in the exterior hand; Sinister, A youth habited
in early fifteenth century dress; all Proper.
Motto: United to serve. Granted 1966. (CCH)
Burke recorded the following.
Arms: Azure an annulet ensigned with a cross pattée Or interlaced with a saltire conjoined in base of the second. (BGA)
SOUTHWARK See of.
Arms: Argent eleven fusils conjoined, seven in pale fesswise, four in fess palewise, and in the dexter chief a mitre all Gules.
Granted 1905. (CCH). (VCHS iv 153) records: Argent a cross indented Gules in the dexter quarter a mitre of the last.
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