Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
WICKINS of Banstead.
Arms: A chevron between three trefoils slipped, a crescent for difference.
Crest: A talbot courant Argent spotted Sable between two trees Vert fructed Or.
From the monument in Banstead Church to Thomas Wickins, (d.Oct 4, 1694), citizen and fishmonger of London. (MB ii 595)
WIDNELL of London, and later of Tandridge.
Arms: Azure on a chevron Or between three ostriches * Argent as many mullets Gules.
Crest: A stork Or, beaked and legged and with the wings spread Sable besanty.
From the monument in Lingfield Church to William Widnell, (d.Nov 18, 1662). (Brayley iv 169)
As borne (SV1623) by Edward Widnell of Tandridge, son of William Widnell, son of William Widnell, (d.Feb 15,1601), of Tandridge and St.
Nicholas Olave, London, to whom this coat and crest were granted by Cooke, Clarenceux, Nov 23, 1575.
* Burke records the ostriches as storks, and the surname as Wydnell, or Wignall. (BGA)
WIGAN John Alfred Wigan, JP, of Clare House, East Malling, Kent, (1787-1869), had issue, amongst others, besides a 5 th son, Sir
Frederick Wigan, qv, and a 6 th son James Wigan, JP, of Cromwell House, Mortlake, (1832-1902), an eldest son the Rev. William Lewis Wigan
of Clare House. His 3 rd son Charles Wigan, JP, MA (Oxon), of Lynbrook, Knapp Hill, {?Woking}, and of Eastcroft, Guildford, (1860-1937),
Under Sheriff of Surrey, 1891-1921, was father of Colonel Charles Richard Wigan, MC, TD, DL, MA (Oxon), of Farthings, Longdown,
Guildford, Under Sheriff of Surrey, (b.1890) and Thomas Keble Wigan, JP, BA (Oxon), of The Old Forge, West Chobham, barrister-at-law,
(b.1892).
Arms: Vair on a pile Or a mount in base Vert thereon a mountain ash tree Proper.
Crest: Upon a mount a mountain ash tree surmounted by a rainbow all Proper.
Motto: Carpe diem. (BLG17)
WIGAN Sir Frederick Wigan, 1 st Bart., of Clare Lawn, East Sheen and of Purland Chase, Ross, Herefordshire, DL, JP, (1827-1907),
High Sheriff of Surrey, 1894, 5 th son of John Alfred Wigan, (1787-1869), see preceding entry, was created Baronet, 1898; the present holder of
the title is Sir Alan Lewis Wigan, 5 th Bart., (b.1913). The 1 st Baronet's 4 th son Captain Edgar Clare Wigan, The Rifle Brigade, (b.1876), was of
Bradstone Brook, Shalford.
Arms: Vair on a pile Or a mount in base Vert thereon a mountain ash tree Proper.
Crest: On a mount Vert a mountain ash tree surmounted by a rainbow all Proper.
Motto: Carpe diem. (BP105)
WIGHT of Brockham in Betchworth from 1605 to 1793. Extinct 1793.
Arms: Gules a chevron Ermine between three bear heads couped Argent muzzled Sable within a bordure engrailed of the third.
From the monument in Betchworth Church to Gabriel Wight, (d.Dec 20, 1621).
WIGHT of Wimbledon and after about 1600 of Braboeuf House in Artington [St Nicholas, Guildford].
Arms: Gules a chevron Ermine between three bear heads couped Argent muzzled Sable within a bordure engrailed of the third. *
Crest: Out of a mural coronet ** a bear head Argent muzzled Sable. (MB ii 212)
* Burke omits the bordure in his blazon of the arms. (BGA)
** Burke records the mural crown as Gules, (BLG6), and records Albert Wight of Braboeuf, (b.1842), younger son of Major Arthur Wight of
Braboeuf, 23 rd Bengal NI, (d.1847), as the representative of the family in 1879.
WIGHTWICK of Surrey also of Coventry, Warwickshire.
Arms: Sable on a chevron Argent between three pheons points down Or as many crosses pattée Gules. (BGA)
WIGNALL see WIDNELL
WIGRAM The Rt. Rev. Joseph Cotton Wigram, MA, DD (Cantab), (1798-1867), Bishop of Rochester, 1860-67, was collated
Archdeacon of Surrey, 1847. He was 5 th son of Sir Robert Wigram, 1 st Bart., (1743-1830), from whom descended also Money Wigram of Esher
Place, (1823-87); Captain Roger Charles Kinglake Wigram, SCLI, of White Croft Park Road, Camberley, (b.1940); Major Charles Knox
Wigram, RASC, of Treesclose, Stoke Road, Cobham, (1889-1966), father of Major James Robert Knox Wigram, RASC, of Morriswood, Brook
Farm Road, Cobham, (b.1915), and Lieutenant Patrick Knox Wigram, ACII, RN (ret), of Hydes Woodlands Lane, Windlesham, (b.1937); and
Marcus Walter Vincent Flowerdew Wigram, BA (Cantab), of 8 Ottershaw Park, Chertsey, (b.1917), Director of Music, Ottershaw School.
Arms: Argent on a pale Gules three escallops Or over all a chevron engrailed counterchanged on a chief waves of the sea thereon a
ship representing an English vessel of war of the 16 th century with four masts sails furled Proper colours flying Gules.
Crest: On a mount Vert a hand in armour in fess couped at the wrist Proper charged with an escallop and holding a fleur-de-lys
erect Or.
Motto: Dulcis amor patriae. (BP99, 105)
WIGSELL The Rev. Atwood W Wigsell, Rector of Sanderstead, died 1821, aged 26.
Arms: Azure a demi lion rampant Or on a chief embattled Gules three woodman's axes upright Argent all within a bordure
engrailed of the last.
Crest: From an embattlement an arm erect cuffed holding a woodman's axe.
(Window in Sanderstead Church; Local History Records)
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