Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
VILLIERS Baroness Nonsuch. Barbara Villiers, (c.1641-1709), daughter and heir of William Villiers, 2 nd Viscount Grandison,
and mistress of King Charles II, was created Baroness Nonsuch, Countess of Southampton, and Duchess of Cleveland, 1670.
Arms: Argent on a cross Gules five escallops Or. (BGA)
VILLIERS Commander George Dumba Villiers, RN, of Vane House, Warren Rise, New Malden, was son of Henry Montagu Hyde
Villiers, MVO, of the Consular Service, (1863-1948), and descended from the Hon. Thomas Villiers, 1 st Earl of Clarendon, (d.1786). Of the
same family, James Michael Hyde Villiers of Deepcut Place, Camberley, was 2 nd son of Captain Eric Hyde Villiers, DSO, of Ormeley Lodge,
Ham Common, (1881-1964), and descended from George William, 4 th Earl of Clarendon, (1800-70).
Arms: Argent on a cross Gules five escallop shells Or.
Crest: A lion rampant Argent ducally crowned Or.
Motto: Fidei coticula crux. (BP99, 105)
VILLIERS-STUART Colonel John Patrick Villiers-Stuart, CB, DSO, OBE, 1 st Frontier Force Rifles, of Iverk, Camberley, (b.1879), 3 rd
son of Henry John Richard Villiers-Stuart, DL, JP, of Castlane, Co. Kilkenny, (1837-1914).
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or a fess chequy Azure and Argent within a double tressure flory counterflory Gules a martlet for
difference (Stuart); 2 and 3, Argent on a cross Gules five escallops Or (Villiers).
Crests: 1, A demi lion rampant Gules; 2, A lion rampant Argent ducally crowned Or
Mottoes: Nobilis via; Avito viret honore. (FD7)
VINCENT of Fetcham.
Arms: Azure three quatrefoils Argent, a crescent for difference.
Motto: Non nisi vincenti.
From the monument in Fetcham Church to Henry Vincent, (d.May 2, 1631), son of Sir Francis Vincent of Stoke d'Abernon.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or a bear head Argent.
VINCENT of London, and of Camberwell.
Arms: Azure three quatrefoils Argent.
As borne by Thomas Vincent of Camberwell, Alderman of London, from the time of Charles I. (Harl. Ms 1561; MB iii 427)
VINCENT of Swinford, Leicestershire, from 1317, of Barnack, Northamptonshire, after 1400 and since 1595 of Stoke House in Stoke
d'Abernon. This family resided at Debden Hall, Essex, during the greater part of last century but in 1934 returned to Stoke. Baronet, Jul 26, 1620.
Baron d'Abernon of Esher, Jul 2, 1914. Viscount d'Abernon of Esher and Stoke d'Abernon, Feb 20, 1926. *
Arms: Azure three quatrefoils Argent.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or a bear head Argent **
From the monument in Stoke Church to Sir Thomas Vincent, (d.1613).
Motto: Vincenti dabitur, and occasionally, as in Wotton's Baronetage, 1727, Vincenti dabitur laurea.
Since entering the peerage the family have dropped their ancient crest and motto, and now use:
Crest: A figure representing the head of a Greek athlete, couped at the shoulders and bound around the temples with a fillet of
victory Argent.
Motto: Quand meme.
Supporters: On either side a bear sejant Sable muzzled Gules gorged with a collar gemel Or and pendant therefrom an escutcheon Azure
charged with a chevron Or.
* The titles expired on the death, 1941, of Sir Edgar Vincent, 1 st and last Baron and Viscount D'Abernon, 16 th Bart., PC, GCB, GCMG.
** Fairbairn records the bear's head as Proper. (FBC)
VINCENT of Surrey.
Arms: Or on a chevron between three demi lions rampant Gules as many trefoils slipped Argent.
Crest: A bull's head cabossed Argent gutté de poix armed Or. (BGA)
VINE Sir John Richard Somers Vine, CMG, FRGS, FSS, of Vernon House, Lordship Lane, Dulwich, (1847-1929), was Hon.
Secretary of the National Leprosy Fund and one of HM's Lieutenants for the City of London. He was knighted 1886.
Arms: Sable three garbs Argent.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or an heraldic tiger's head Proper.
(FD 1895, which states that no authority has been established for these arms)
VON DER MEDEN Otto von der Meden of Coventry Hall, Streatham, had a daughter Helena Wilhelmina who married, 1893, Sir
Robert Stewart Johnstone, MA, LL.B (TCD), of 1a Queen's Gate, London, (1855-1936), Chief Justice of Grenada, 1909-14. (FD7)
Arms: Rietstap gives for von der Meden of Bremen and Hamburg; Azure a fan Argent the handle in base.
Crest: Two fans as in the arms. (RAG)
VON ERNSTHAUSEN Baron O. Ernst von Ernsthausen was of The Manor House, Ditton Hill, Long Ditton, in 1910. (VCHS iii 517)
Arms: Bendy sinister of three Argent Gules and Or the first charged with three mullets of six points in bend sinister Or
Crest: A mullet of six points Or between two wings conjoined in lure Sable. (RAG)
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