Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
WESTON of Send, then after about 1448 of Ockham House, and from 1749 until recently of West Horsley Place. *
Descended from William Weston, brother of John Weston, the last of Weston and West Clandon, from the time of Henry VI.
Arms: Sable a chevron Or between three lion heads erased Argent langued Gules. **
From the brass in Ockham Church to John Weston, (d.Jun 1, 1483), son and heir of William. (SAC xxxi 48)
Crests: A wolf passant Argent ducally gorged Or. A wolf head erased Argent. **
Motto: Gloria sat Deus unus.
As borne by Henry Weston of Ockham (SV1623) (Brayley)
* The representative of the family in 1952 was Major Charles Edward John Weston RA of Hira, RMD, Nelson, New Zealand, (b.1911), Lord of
the Manor of West Horsley.
** Burke gives for Weston of Ockham, 1700.
Arms: Sable a chevron between three lions' heads erased Argent.
Crest: A wolf's head couped Sable (BGA)
For Weston of West Horsley:
Arms: Sable three leopards' faces Argent crowned Or langued Gules.
Crest: A wolf passant Argent ducally gorged Or. (BGA)
WESTON of Screens in Roxwell, Essex, and later also of Roehampton Grove [Putney Park] in Putney.
Baron Weston of Neyland, Apr 13, 1628. Earl of Portland, Feb.17, 1634. Extinct 1688.
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or an eagle displayed Sable, langued and membered Gules for Weston; 2 and 3, Ermine on a chief Azure
five besants, also for Weston.
Crests: 1, An eagle reguardant Sable, beaked and membered Or, for Weston. 2, A man's head and shoulders front-faced Proper, his
temples bound with a fillet Argent, also for West.
Supporters: Two greyhounds Sable gorged with a plain collar and rings Or.
Motto: Craignez honte, (Doyle iii 59)
The grave-slab of Jerome Weston, (d.Mar 17, 1662), 2 nd Earl of Portland, in Walton on Thames Church, gives his coat as Quarterly, 1 and 4, An
eagle displayed as above for Weston, 2 and 3, Three fleur-de-lys.
WESTON of Weston in Albury, and then of West Clandon. Extinct from the time of Henry VI.
Arms: Sable a chevron Or between three lion heads erased Argent. *
From a stone carving in Church.
* The arms are quartered by Slyfield, qv, on a monument in Great Bookham Church. (VCHS iii 333)
WESTON of Weston-under-Lizzard, Staffordshire, then of Prested Hall, Essex, next of Boston, Lincolnshire, and from 1521 to 1782 of
Sutton Place in Woking. Extinct 1782.
Descended from John Weston of Boston, eldest son of Humphrey de Weston of Prested, 1390, said to be descended from Hamon de Weston of
Weston, from the time of Henry II. Elizabeth, sister of Thomas, 1 st Viscount Gage, and wife of John Weston, (d.1730), of Sutton, was the subject
of Pope's lines, To an Unfortunate Lady. (Harrison p 139)
Arms: Ermine on a chief Azure five besants.
Crest: A Saracen head front-faced couped at the neck Proper collared Or and wreathed round the temple Argent and Azure.
Motto: Ani boro, (said to be the Syriac 'Ani buroh', 'I am sped') (Harrison, pp 52,55; HG v 532)
Sir Richard Weston (SV1623) and his grandfather Sir Henry Weston, KB, in 1569, bore this coat but used the crest of the Camels of Shapwick,
Dorset, their ancestors, ie. A camel passant Sable spotted Argent, collared and hoofted Or. (Harrison, p.109)
Hall, (in his Chronicle, p 522), says that Sir Richard Weston, KB, (d.1542) was in 1511 granted as augmentation by Ferdinand, King of Spain, a
chief Or thereon an eagle displayed Sable, but he bore the simple unaugmented coat (SV1530). Of this family was Sir Francis Weston, KB,
executed May 17, 1637 as a reported lover of Anne Boleyn; Sir Richard Weston, (d.May 7, 1652) a noted agriculturist who first introduced
clover and turnips into England; and several knights of the Order of St. John, of whom Sir John Weston, (d.1489) and his nephew Sir William
Weston, (d.May 7, 1540), were Priors of the Order in England. The latter's tomb, formerly in Clerkenwell Church, Middlesex gave his arms
augmented with a chief Gules thereon a cross Argent, ie the bearing of the Order. (HG v 530)
The Westons were Governors of Guernsey continuously from 1488 to 1541.
WESTON of Effingham.
Arms: Sable a chevron between three talbots' heads erased Or.
Crest: A wolf passant Argent ducally gorged Or. (BGA)
WESTON see WEBBE-WESTON
WESTROPP Major-General George Ralph Collier Westropp, IA, (1834-1912), descended from Montifort Westropp of Bunratty and
Kilkerin, Co. Clare, (d.1698), had issue, amongst others, a 2 nd son Colonel George Ralph Collier Westropp, CB, JP, IA, of Merton Park, (1859-
1934), and a 7 th son Alexander Sligo Anderson Westropp, BA (Cantab), ICS, (1872-1957), who was father of Major Edward Ralph Shotton
Westropp, BA (Cantab), Royal Hampshire Regiment, of Orchard House, St. Anne's Hill, Chertsey, (b.1908).
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Sable a lion rampant Ermine ducally crowned Or (Westropp); 2 and 3, Argent on a fess Gules between
three popinjays Vert collared and membered Gules as many escallops of the field (Thweng).
Crest: An eagle Proper issuing from a ducal coronet Or. *
Mottoes: Je me tourne vers l'occident; Post funera virtus. (IFR; BLG9)
* FD7 gives: A falcon's head Ermine.
WEST SHEEN PRIORY in Richmond.
Arms: Quarterly, France Modern and England.
From the Priory seal. (Brayley iii 76)
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