Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
LEIGH of Stockwell, from 1461 to 1547. Cadets of Leigh of Ridge Hall.
Arms: Gules a cross engrailed Argent.
From brass in Camberwell Church to Richard Skinner, (d.1492). (SAC xxvi 5)
Gules a cross within a bordure both engrailed Argent.
From brass in Lambeth Church to Sir John Leigh, KB, (d.Aug 17, 1523). (SAC xxix 124 Harl. Ms 1561, fo 20)
Crest: A cockatrice Azure crested Gules winged Or. * (Tanswell, p.40)
* Fairbairn records Leigh, of Stockwall, (sic), as using for crest that recorded in the last entry but one for Leigh, of Abinger and records for
Leigh, of Surrey: A cockatrice Azure combed and wattled Gules. (FBC)
LEIGH of Leatherlake House. The Rev. Thomas Leigh, MA, Rector and Patron of Murston, Kent, and Rector of St.
Margaret's, Canterbury, (1708-74), a cadet of Leigh of West Hall, High Leigh, Cheshire, married Jane, daughter of J Barnes and widow of
Thomas Allett, brother of John Allett, of Leatherlake House, Runnymede. Their son the Rev. Egerton Leigh, Rector and Patron of Murston and
Vicar of Tilmanstone, (1735-88), had issue, a younger son Egerton Piers Leigh, of Chertsey Abbey, also of Langley Place, Buckinghamshire, (d.
unmarried 1832), an elder son the Rev. James Allett Leigh, MA, of Leatherlake House, Vicar of Tollesbury, Essex, (1770-1857).
He was father of James Allett Leigh, of Leatherlake House, (b.1799). (BLG4)
Arms: Or a lion rampant Gules.
Crests: 1, A cubit arm vested paly of five pieces Or and Sable cuffed Argent hand Proper grasping the upper and lower fragments of
a broken tilting spear points downwards; 2, A demi lion rampant Or holding a pennon displayed Azure charged with two bars Or inscribed
"Force ave Vertue" and with a shield of the arms of Leigh of West Hall. (BGA)
LEIGH Sir John Leigh, 1 st Bart., of Altrincham, Chester, JP, (1884-1959), created Baronet, 1918, was of Witley Park, Godalming.
Arms: Argent on a cross engrailed quadrant gules a garb Or between in chief two roses of the second barbed and seeded Proper.
Crest: A cubit arm vested Gules cuffed Argent grasping a staff in bend sinister Proper pendent therefrom a banner of the second
charged with a cross couped of the first.
Motto: Fides servand est. (BP99)
LEIGH Earl of Chichester. Sir Francis Leigh, KB, (d.1625), acquired the manor of Apps, in Walton-on-Thames, 1602. It
descended to his son Sir Francis Leigh, 1 st and last Earl of Chichester, (dspm 1653), and passed with the latter's daughter and coheir Elizabeth to
her husband Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, qv. (VCHS iii 473)
Arms: Gules a cross engrailed and in the first quarter a lozenge Argent. (BEP)
LEIGH-CLARE Gerald Leigh Leigh-Clare of Wayside, Beacon Way, Banstead, (b.1881), son of Octavius Leigh Leigh-Clare, BA, of Hindley
Cottage, East Sheen, barrister-at-law, Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster, (b.1841).
Arms: Argent a chevronel Gules between two chevronels Azure on a chief dancetté of the last a goat's head erased between two
crossed patonce Or.
Crest: A millrind fesswise Or thereon a cock with wings expanded Gules.
Motto: Vigilante. (FD7)
LEKE see LEAKE
LELY Sir Peter Lely, the Court painter, (1618-80), was of Kew Green, also of the Piazza, Covent Garden, and Greetwell,
Lincolnshire.
Arms: Argent a fess between three roses Gules.
Crest: A cornucopia Proper. (BGA)
LE MARCHANT Sir Denis Le Marchant, 1 st Bart., of Chobham Place, (1795-1874), was created Baronet, 1841. The present holder of the title
is Sir Denis Le Marchant, 5 th Bart., (b.1906).
Arms: Azure a chevron Or between three owls Argent legged of the second.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet * an owl's leg erect Or.
Motto: Me Minerva lucet. (BP105)
* BP58 and FBC record the coronet as Gules.
LEMPRIERE Captain William Charles Lempriere, RHA, of Ewell, (1788-1858), 2 nd son of William Charles Lempriere, Seigneur of
Diéllamont and Saval, Jersey, (1754-90), was father of Major-General Arthur Reid Lempriere, JP, RE, of Collingwood Mount, Camberley,
(1835-1927), and great grandfather of George Rollo O'Connell Lempriere of Redwood Cottage, Westerham Road, Limpsfield, (b.1904).
(BLG18)
Arms: Gules three eagles displayed Or.
Crest: An eagle rising Proper.
Motto: Timor Dei nobilitas. (BLG8)
Fairbairn records two additional Crests, viz An elephant and castle and A squirrel sejant. (FBC)
LENNARD see BARRETT-LENNARD
LENTHALL Sir Roland Lenthall, (living 1451), acquired lands in Southwark by married to Margaret, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, Earl
of Surrey; their son, Edmund Lenthall, died sp.
Arms: Argent on a bend cotised Sable three mullets Or. (VCHS iv 136)
LEPTON of Guildford.
Arms: Gules three bars Argent, on a chief Azure three Catherine wheels Or.
From the brass in St. Nicholas, Guildford, to Ralph Lepton, Rector of St. Nicholas, 1504-1527. (SAC xxviii 110)
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