Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
WOLFE The Rev. Edward John Wolfe, Vicar of St. Thomas', Streatham Hill, (1858-1933), was 2 nd son of the Ven. John Charles
Wolfe, DD, Archdeacon of Clogher, (1812-71), descended from Richard Wolfe, (will proven 1679), who settled in Ireland.
Arms: Argent three wolves' heads erased Sable ducally gorged Or.
Crest: A wolf's head erased Sable ducally gorged Or.
Motto: Pro patria more. (IFR)
WOLFE-BARRY Eric Gordon Wolfe-Barry of Hook Heath, Woking, (b.1886), son of Sir John Wolfe Wolfe-Barry, KCB, DL, LL.D, FICE,
FRS, (1836-1918).
Arms: Or three bars gemel Azure over all a pale invected Ermine thereon a portcullis with chains Sable.
Crest: A griffin Gules wings elevated and addorsed barry of six Or and Azure in its mouth a rose Argent leaved and slipped Proper
resting the dexter claw on a portcullis as in the arms.
Motto: Boutez en avant. (FD7)
Sir John Wolfe-Barry, who was youngest son of Sir Charles Barry, qv, and who assumed the additional surname Wolfe in 1898, was a
distinguished engineer responsible for the Tower Bridge, Blackheath, Barry Dock and Railways, Kew Bridge, Surrey Commercial Dock,
Grangemouth Dock, and many other important works.
WOLLASTON Francis Wollaston, FRS, LL.B of Charterhouse Square, (1694-1774), descended from Thomas Wollaston of Perton,
Staffordshire, from the time of Henry VII, had issue, amongst others, besides a 4 th son the Rev. George Wollaston, MA (Cantab), FRS, of
Richmond, (1738-1826), an eldest son the Rev. Francis Wollaston, LL.B (Cantab), FRS, of Charterhouse Square, Canon and Precentor of St.
David's, (d.1815). The latter had issue, amongst others, besides George Hyde Wollaston of Clapham Common, (1765-1841), another son Henry
Septimus Hyde Wollaston of Welling, Kent, (1776-1867), from whom descends Henry Woods Wollaston, BA (Cantab), of Ashtead House,
Ashtead, barrister-at-law, (b.1916), 3 rd son of Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, KCB, KCVO, MA, LL.M (Cantab), Garter Principal King of Arms,
(1874-1957).
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent three mullets pierced Sable (Wollaston); 2 and 3, Azure on a chevron Or between three swans
Argent as many cinquefoils Gules (Charlton).
Crest: Out of a mural crown Or a demi griffin segreant Argent holding a pierced mullet Sable.
Motto: Ne quid falsi. (BLG18)
WOLLEY of Pyrford Park. Extinct 1610.
Arms: Argent on a chevron Sable an eagle displayed * of the first.
From a monument to Sir John Wolley, (d.1596), Dean of Carlisle, formerly in St. Paul's Cathedral. (Dugdale, History of St. Paul’s)
* Burke records the eagle as displayed with two heads. (BGA)
WOLLEY of Surrey.
Arms: Argent a chevron Ermines. (BGA)
WOLSELEY Fox-Davis records Sir Charles Michael Wolseley, 9 th Bart., of Wolseley, Staffordshire, DL, JP, (1846-1931), as of Sunridge,
Sutton, Guildford. Of the same family Mervyn Joseph Witham Wolseley of Whitmoor House, Sutton Park, (1873-1956), who married Dorothy
Mary, (d.1956), eldest daughter of Philip Witham of Whitmoor House, qv, was son of Edward Talbot Wolseley of Maryland, Ascot, Berkshire,
(1848-1935), and grandson of Sir Charles Wolseley, 8 th Bart., (1813-54).
Arms: Argent a talbot passant Gules.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or a wolf's head erased Proper.
Motto: Homo homini lupus. (BP105; FD7)
WOLSEY For some time after his fall, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, MA, DD (Oxon), Archbishop of York, (c 1475-1530), lived in the
mansion at Esher whose remains bear the name of 'Wolsey's Tower'.
Arms: Sable on a cross engrailed Argent a lion passant Gules between four leopards' faces Azure on a chief Or a rose of the third
between two Cornish choughs Proper.
Crest: From a coronet Or a lion's face Azure.
Supporters: Two angels.
Motto: Dominus mihi ad Jutor
Device: On a mount Vert a griffin erect per fess gules and Or holding in the dexter claw the golden staff of the Chancellor and in the
sinister a flagstaff headed with a cross pattée and banner of York modern, impaling Wolsey, as above. (SGH; BBE)
WOMBWELL of Wombwell, Yorkshire, and of Sherwood Lodge in Battersea. Baronet, Aug 26, 1778.
Arms: Gules a bend between six unicorn heads couped Argent.
Crest: An unicorn head couped Argent.
Motto: In well beware (Peerage, 1938)
The 1 st baronet, Sir George, (d.1816), * (son of Roger Wombwell of Barnsley, Yorkshire, 3 rd son of John Wombwell, 2 nd son of George
Wombwell of Wombwell), was Chairman of the East India Company and bought back Wombwell which had been alienated from the family
since 1761.
* Sir George Wombwell, 1 st Bart., died 1780, not 1816, as stated by Field; it was his widow Susannah, only daughter of Sir Thomas Rawlinson,
Lord Mayor of London, 1746, who died 1816. From them descended Michael Henry Wombwell of Fairways, Crastock, Woking, (b.1907).
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