Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
STAPLES Roger Staples of The Close, Salisbury, {Wiltshire},(1694-1745), had issue, amongst others, an eldest son Roger Staples, JP,
of Mitcham Hall, a London banker, (dsp. 1778), and a 2 nd son Charles Staples of London, (b.1728), who was father of, amongst others, Moses
William Staples, of Norwood, banker and alderman of London, (1762-1802). His son, Moses William Staples of Norwood, and of Broughton
Gifford, Wiltshire, (1786-1864), married, 1811, Anne, daughter of the Rev. William Frederick Browne of Launton, Oxfordshire, and coheir of
her brother Captain William Frederick Browne, of Launton and North Berwick. Their eldest son Richard Thomas Staples-Browne of Launton,
(1814-55), assumed the additional name and arms of Browne on succeeding to Launton, 1842.
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Ermine on a bend Azure between two fleurs-de-lys Gules three leopards' heads jessant-de-lys Or
(Staples); 2 and 3, Sable a bend engrailed Ermine on a chief Argent an escallop Gules between two torteaux (Browne).
Crests: 1, Out of a crown vallary Argent a lion's head affronté Gules semé-de-lys and ducally crowned Or (Staples); 2, An eagle
displayed sable wings fretty resting each claw on a mullet Or (Browne).
Motto: Sans Dieu rien. (BLG5)
STAPLES Sir John Richard Staples, 14 th Bart., of Butter Hill House, South Street, Dorking, (b.1906), son of John Molesworth Staples,
(1869-1948), and descended from Sir Robert Staples, 4 th Bart., of Lissan, Co. Tyrone, (d. 1714).
Arms: Argent on a fess engrailed Ermines between three hurts two dragons' heads erased Or.
Crest: A demi negro affronté Proper holding a bolt-staple Or.
Motto: Teneo. (BP105)
STAPLETON see CHETWYND-STAPLETON
STAUNTON of Cobham.
Arms: Vairy Sable and Ermine [Argent] a canton Gules.
From the monument in Cobham Church to William Staunton, (d.Mar 21, 1724) (MB ii 739)
STAVELEY-HILL Major Henry de Burgh Staveley-Hill, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, of Molesey House, East Molesey,
stockbroker, (b.1907), younger son of His Honour Judge Henry Staveley Staveley-Hill, TD, DL, JP, (1865-1946), and descended from Henry
Hill, DL, JP, of Dunstall Hall and Oxley Manor, Wolverhampton, {Staffordshire}, (1789-1872), by his wife Marina Ann, daughter of Luke
Staveley of Hunmanby, Yorkshire.
Arms: Argent on a chevron between three lozenges Azure each charged with a cross crosslet fitché Or three wolves' heads erased of
the last.
Crest: In front of a sheaf of six arrows points upwards Argent a bull's head cabossed Gules.
Motto: Fortiter ac sapienter. (BLG18)
STEDWOLPH, STEEDALE see STYDOLPH
STEERE of Jayes in Wootton.
Arms: Per pale Sable and Gules three lions passant Argent.
Crest: Out of a mural coronet per pale Gules and Sable a lion jamb erect Argent armed of the first.
Motto: Tu ne cede malis. *
On the death in 1795 of Lee Steere of Jayes, Lee Steere Witts, son of his daughter and heir Martha, by Richard Witts, (d.1815), of Evershed
Place in Abinger, took the name and arms of Steere
* Fairbairn records H C Lee-Steere of Jayes Park, as bearing an addition Crest, (presumably for Lee): An arm embowed vested Gules cuffed
Argent holding in the hand Proper a sword erect of the second hilted Or on the blade a snake entwined Vert. (FBC)
STEERE see HARRISON
STEINMAN Leonard Steinmann of St. Gall, Switzerland, (1718-79), settled at Clerkenwell, Middlesex, where he died. He had issue,
amongst others, a son George Leonard Steinman of Croydon, (1758-1830), whose daughter and coheir Susannah Betty married, 1807, Robert
Smith of Kingston, (d.1814). Their son George Steinmann Smith, post Steinman, FSA, of Priory Lodge, Peckham, (b.1811), assumed the
surname Steinman in lieu of Smith 1832. (BLG1846)
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure an ibex rampant Argent horned Or (Steinmann); 2 and 3, . a stag's horn in pale . (Steinmann,
ancient).
Crest: A demi ibex Argent horned Or. (BGA)
Fairbairn records for Steinman: A demi ibex rampant Argent armed Or charged on the shoulder with a cross pattée Azure.
Motto: Ante expectatum diem. (FBC)
STENNING Philip Eustace Stenning of Limpsfield, (b.1874), son of Sir Alexander Rose Stenning, JP (Sussex), FSI, FRIBA, (1846-
1928), and grandson of William Stenning of Godstone Court.
Arms: Per fess Argent and Sable a pale and three bats, two and one, all counterchanged.
Crest: A ram passant Gules armed and unguled Or resting the dexter forefoot on an escutcheon Argent charged with a bat Sable.
Motto: In lapide robur. (FD7)
STEPHENS see WILLIAMS-STEPHENS
STEPHENSON George Stephenson of 64 Chartfield Avenue, Putney, (b.1852), 2 nd son of George Robert Stephenson, (b.1819), a President
of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Arms: Argent a chevron between two fleurs-de-lys in chief and a cross flory in base Gules a chief Azure thereon three mullets of the
first.
Crest: Between two fleurs-de-lys Argent a cubit arm vested Azure cuffed also argent the hand holding a roll of paper Proper.
Motto: Fidus in arcanies. (FD7)
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