Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
MAY Fairbairn records Robert G May of Greena Lodge, Sheen Road, Richmond, as using for
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or a leopard's head Gules. (FBC)
MAY Baron May. Sir George Ernest May, 1 st Bart., KBE, of Eyot House, Weybridge, (1871-1946), was created Baronet,
1931, and Baron May of Weybridge, 1935. The present holder of the titles is his grandson, Sir Michael St. John May, 3 rd Baron May, (b.1931).
Arms: Gules on a chevron between in chief three billets Or and in base an eagle displayed Argent three roses of the field barbed and
seeded Proper.
Crest: A demi leopard Proper holding in the dexter paw a bezant and resting the sinister paw on a terrestrial globe also Proper.
Supporters: Dexter, A griffin; Sinister, A dragon; each Or and each charged on the shoulder with a sprig of mayflower slipped and leaved
Proper.
Motto: Deo adjuvante labor proficit. (BP105)
MAYNARD of Tooting.
Arms: Argent a chevron Azure between three sinister hands couped at the wrist Gules.
Crest: A stag statant Or charged on the breast with a crescent Sable.
As borne by Sir John Maynard, KB, (d.1664), son of Sir John Maynard, KB, (d.1658), 2 nd son of Sir Henry Maynard of Estaines Parva, Essex,
Secretary to Lord Burleigh. (Gen. Arm.)
MAYNE Robert Mayne of Gatton Park, Reigate, (1727-82), 17 th child of William Mayne of Powis, Perthshire, and Logie,
Clackmannanshire, (1671-1756), and a younger brother of Sir William Mayne, Baron Newhaven, qv, had a 2 nd son the Rev. Robert Mayne, DL,
JP, MA, Rector of Limpsfield, (1778-1841).
Arms: (Matriculated L.O. {probably Lyons Office, Scottish Heraldry} 1660). Argent a chevron Gules voided of the field between
two pheons in chief Sable and a fleur-de-lys in base Azure all within a bordure wavy of the last.
Crest: A dexter mailed arm erect hand proper holding cross crosslet fitché Gules. (BLG17)
(BGA) records this as : A dexter hand holding a plain cross Gules.
Motto: Virtuti fortuna comes.
MAYNE Baron Newhaven. Sir William Mayne, 1 st Baron Newhaven of Carrick Mayne, Co. Dublin, (dsp 1794 aged 72),
MP for Gatton, 1780-90, bought the manor of Gatton, 1774. (VCHS iii 198)
Arms: As in previous entry.
Crest: An arm erect couped below the elbow habited Azure cuffed Argent holding in the hand Proper a cross in pale Gules.
Supporters: Dexter, A tiger rampant guardant Tenne armed Gules collared Or; Sinister, A talbot Sable armed and langued Gules collared
Or.
Motto: Virtuti fortuna comes. (BGA)
MAYOW see WYNELL-MAYOW
MEADE John Michael Meade of 84 Forest Road, Kew, son of Major John Windham Meade, JP, of Earsham Lodge, Bungay, Suffolk,
Lord of the Manor of Doubles-Earsham, Norfolk, and descended from John, 1 st Earl of Clanwilliam, (1744-1800).
Arms: Gules a chevron Ermine between three trefoils slipped Argent.
Crest: An eagle displayed with two heads Sable armed Or.
Motto: Toujours prest. (BP105)
MEADE-KING Richard Evelyn Beauchamp Meade-King of Kingsmeadow, Grayshott, (b.1885), elder son of Sir William Oliver Evelyn
Meade-King, JP, MICE, of Walford, Somerset, (1858-1940).
Arms: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent a lion rampant between three cross crosslets, two and one, Sable and as many escallops, one and
two, Gules (King); 2 and 3, Gules on a chevron Argent between three leopards' faces Or two arrows in saltire Azure barbed and flighted Proper
between two bows chevronwise of the fourth stringed of the field (Meade).
Crests: 1, A mount Vert thereon an arm in bend dexter couped at the elbow the hand supporting a tilting-spear erect the head broken
the arm surmounting a branch of oak fructed in bend sinister all Proper (King); 2, A demi griffin Azure wings elevated Ermine in the dexter claw
a fleur-de-lys Or (Meade).
Motto: Cadenti porrigo dextram. (BLG18)
MEARES John Willoghby Meares, CIE, M.Inst.CE, MIEE, MIE(Ind), FRAS, of Elstowe, Guildford, (b.1871), son of Thomas Meares
of Clive Hall, Shrewsbury, (1825-1917), married, 1898, Frances Helen, daughter and coheir of Arthur Mapletoft Curteis, JP.
Arms: Argent on a fess Azure between in chief a thunderbolt and in base a sun in splendour Proper two garbs Or; on an escutcheon
of pretence (for Curteis), Argent a chevron Sable between three bulls' heads cabossed Gules.
Crest: Two arms embowed vested Azure the hands grasping a thunderbolt Proper.
Motto: Vis viam vincit. (FD7)
MEATH Earl of see BRABAZON
MEDLICOTT James Medlicott of London, citizen and merchant tailor, (1565-1622), was father of James Medlicott of Stockwell and
Ashtead, (1598-c.1664) ancestor of the Medlicotts of Dunmurry, Co. Kildare, and of Henry Medlicott of London and Richmond, merchant,
(d.1648).
Arms: Quarterly per fess indented Gules and Azure three lions rampant Argent. (IFR; BGA)
MEEREHURST see MEREHURST
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