Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
WONTNER Arthur Giles Irvine Wontner, MA (Oxon), of 14 Bemish Road, Putney, solicitor, Legal Assistant, New Scotland Yard,
(b.1936), elder son of Sir Hugh Walter Kingswell Wontner, CVO, JP, of Barscobe Castle, Kirkcudbrightshire, and of Hedson Priory,
Buckinghamshire.
Arms: (In England). Argent a chevron Sable between in chief two crosses pattée convexed Gules voided of the field and in base a
lion rampant guardant of the third grasping in the sinister paw a lamb Proper a chief Azure thereon three wolves' heads erased Or.
Crest: A lion rampant Gules holding between the forepaws an actor's mask Sable.
Motto: Artem tuam ama.
Arms: (in Scotland). Or two chevronels Sable between in chief two crosses pattée convexed Gules voided Argent and in base three
holly leaves conjoined at the stalk Vert banded of the third.
Crest: A lion rampant guardant Gules grasping in the sinister paw a lamb Proper.
Motto: Artem tuam ama. (BLG18)
WOOD of Gatton Park. Baronet, Oct 20, 1808. Extinct 1837.
Arms: Argent on oak tree eradicated Proper. *
Crest: An oak tree eradicated Proper. **
Supporters: Two sailors, caps and jackets Vert, cuffs, lapels, trousers and waistcoats Argent.
Motto: Tutus in undis. (Gen. Arm.)
As borne by Sir Mark Wood, (d.Feb 6, 1829), son of Alexander Wood, cousin of John Wood, (d.1777), Governor of the Isle of Man, to whom
these arms, (but with A ship in full sail Proper, for crest) were confirmed in 1775.
* Balfour Paul records this as: Argent an oak tree Vert eradicated Proper fructed Or, (granted 1809), and for Wood of Potter's Park, (granted
1845); Argent an oak tree eradicated Proper fructed Or. (POA)
** Fairbairn adds:.. fructed Vert. (FBC)
WOOD of Ottershaw Park in Chertsey and later of Feltwell Lodge, Norfolk, and Testcombe, Hampshire
Arms, Crest * Supporters and Motto as Wood of Gatton.
As borne by George Wood, (who received permission to use the Supporters in 1845) of Feltwell and Testcombe, son of Major-General Sir
George Wood, KCB, (d.1824), of Ottershaw, son of Alexander Wood of Perth, and brother of Sir Mark Wood, Bart. of Gatton.
* Fairbairn records the crest as: A ship in full sail Proper. (FBC)
WOOD Thomas Wood of Dorking, (1823-1906).
Arms: Sable a fess cotised Argent between three lions' heads erased of the last ducally crowned Or. (FD7)
WOODD The Rev. Basil John Woodd, MA (Cantab), Curate of Great Bookham, 1932-34, and of Banstead, 1934-37, (b.1907),
younger son of the Rev. Charles Hampden Basil Woodd, MA (Cantab), (1869-1941), and descended from Alexander Woodd of Shynewood,
Shropshire, (will proven 1546).
Arms: Gules three demi savages Argent each holding a club over the dexter shoulder Or. (BLG18)
Crest: Fairbairn and Burke record Wood of Shynwood, Shropshire and Surrey and Brize Norton, Oxfordshire as bearing: A demi
woodman Argent holding a club over his dexter shoulder Or. (FBC, BGA)
Motto: Non nobis. (BLG18)
WOODHOUSE The Rev. Arthur Chorley Woodhouse, MA (Cantab), (1854-1944), Curate of St. Mary's, Battersea, 1878-82, and Vicar of St.
Mark's, Battersea Rise, 1883-90, was son of the Rev. Frederick Charles Woodhouse, MA (Cantab), (1827-1905), and grandson of George
Edward Woodhouse of Exeter, Devon, (1794-1864), from whom descended also the Rev. Reginald Illingworth Woodhouse, MA (Cantab), Vicar
of Merstham, (1854-1922), and Henry Alfred Woodhouse MA (Oxon), of Haslemere, later of Orchard Lodge, Woking, (b.1883), father of
Ronald Michael Woodhouse, BA (Oxon), of Tankards, Wonersh, (b.1927).
Arms: Gules a cross between twelve cross crosslets Or.
Crest: Within a ducal coronet Or a mount Vert issuant therefrom a cross crosslet Gold.
Motto: In hoc signo. (BLG18; FD7)
WOODHOUSE see SECRETAN
WOODROFFE of Poyle House in Seale, from 1581 to 1779. Extinct 1779. Descended from Sir Nicholas Woodroffe, (d.May 18,
1598), Lord Mayor of London in 1579, son of David Woodroffe, Sheriff of London, 1554, son of John Woodroffe of Uffculme, Devon.
Arms: Gules on a chevron Argent three stag heads erased Sable, a chief per fess nebuly of the third and second. *
Crest: A dexter arm embowed vested with leaves Vert, in the hand three slips of honeysuckle all Proper.
From the brasses in Seale Church to Sir Nicholas, the Lord Mayor and to Sir David Woodroffe, (d.Feb 13, 1603), eldest son of Sir Nicholas.
(SAC xxxii 86-7)
As borne at the Surrey Visitation by Robert Woodroffe, son of Sir David.
William Billinghurst, great nephew of George Woodroffe, (d.1779), took the name and arms of Woodroffe and was Sheriff of Surrey in 1792,
but the family became extinct on the death of his brother in 1854.
* (VCHS ii 618) records the arms as: Gules on a chevron Argent three harts' heads erased of the field a chief party wavy Sable and Argent. The
arms, incorrectly repainted, are impaled by Markland on a monument in Soberton Church, Hampshire, commemorating Jane, (d.1688, aged 30),
daughter of George Woodroffe of Poyle, and wife of the Rev. Abraham Markland, Rector of Soberton and Prebendary of Winchester.
WOODROUFFE SMITH Thomas Woodrouffe Smith of Stockwell Park, had a daughter and heir Maria Woodrouffe, (d.1854, aged 59) who
married, 1833, as his first wife, George Head Head, JP, of Rickerby House, Cumberland, and Sprowston Hall, Norfolk, banker (d.1876, aged 81).
Arms .... on a chevron .... three stags' heads erased .... a chief .... charged with five billets .... (CFH)
As borne on an escutcheon of pretence in Stanwix Church, Cumberland.
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