Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
MERTON COLLEGE Oxford. The college has owned the manors of Chessington, Malden and Farley since the 13 th century.
(VCHS ill 263, iv 282)
Arms: Argent on a saltire Gules an escallop Or, (the See of Rochester); impaling, Or three chevronels per pale the first and third
Azure and Gules the second Gules and Azure. (Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester, founder of the College, qv)
MERTON PRIORY
Arms: Or a fret Azure charged at each junction with an eagle displayed Argent. *
From glass in Merton Church. (The Wimbledon and Merton Annual 1910, p.63. Brayley iii 459)
* (VCHS iii 209) records this as: Or fretty Azure the interlacings each charged with an eagle displayed wings inverted Argent. Woodward
blazons the coat as: Or fretty Azure on the joints six eagles displayed Argent. (WEC)
MERTON AND MORDEN Urban District Council.
Arms: Sable a fret Or on a chief of the last two lions passant counterpassant of the field.
Motto: In libertate vis. Granted 1943. (SGH)
MESSEL Colonel Linley Francis Messel, TD, of Lower Roundhurst, Haslemere, (b.1899), elder son of Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard
Charles Rudolph Messel, OBE, TD, MA (Oxon), of Nymans, Staplefield, Sussex, (1872-1953).
Arms: Or issuing from a mount in base a fir tree Proper in chief two barrulets Azure.
Crest: An eagle displayed resting each claw on a fylfot Or.
Motto: Dirigat Deus. (BLG18)
MESSERVY Walter John Messervy of Woodhurst, Bletchingley, (1861-1955), was 9 th and youngest son of George Messervy of Mont-
Cantel, St. Helier, Jersey, (1819-88).
Arms: Or three cherries Gules stalked Vert.
Crest: A cherry tree Proper.
Motto: Au valeureux coeur rien impossible. (BLG18)
METCALFE of Ham and later of Chilton, Buckinghamshire. Baronet, Dec 21, 1802. The 3 rd baronet, Sir Charles Theophilus
Metcalfe, GCB, Governor of Canada, was created Baron Metcalfe, Jan 1845, but this barony expired at his death, 1846, while the baronetcy
passed to his brother.
Arms: Argent on a fess wavy Gules between three calves passant Sable a sword fessways point to the sinister Proper the hilt and
pomel Or.
Crest: A talbot sejant Sable the dexter paw supporting an escutcheon Or charged with a hand issuing from clouds on the sinister
holding a pen all Proper.
Motto: Conquiesco. *
* Sir Theophilus John Massie Metcalfe, 7 th Bart., (1866-1950), was of Winkworth Hill, Hascombe, Godalming.
Fox-Davies records the arms as: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent on a fess wavy Gules between three calves statant Sable a sword fessways point to
the sinister Proper pommel and hilt Or (Metcalfe); 2 and 3, Per fess Gules and Azure on a fess between a castle in chief and a lion rampant in
base Or three mullets of six points of the first (Debonnaire). (FD7)
METFORD of Ockham.
Arms: Or a fess Gules between three martlets Sable, quartered Sable a lion rampant tail forked Argent.
From the brass in Ockham Church to John Weston, (d.1483), and Margaret, his wife, (d.Jan 31, 1475), daughter and heir of John Metford of
Ockham. (SAC xxxi. 98)
This same quartered coat was borne by ….. Metford of Essex, from the time of Henry VI. (Foster, p.169)
METHUEN The Rev. St. John Frederick Charles Methuen, BA (Cantab), of 9 Norbury Avenue, Thornton Heath, (1862-1953), Rector of
Vange, Essex, 1897-1930, was son of the Hon. St. John George Paul Methuen, (1819-99), and grandson of the 1 st Baron Methuen, of Corsham,
{Wiltshire}, (1779-1849).
Arms: Argent three wolves' heads erased Proper the shield on the breast of an eagle with two heads displayed Sable.
Motto: Virtus invidiae scopus. (BP99)
MEUX Sheen House, East Sheen, was a seat of Sir Henry Bruce Meux, 3 rd and last Bart., of Theobald's Park, Hertfordshire,
(b.1856).
Arms: Paly of six Or and Azure on a chief Gules three crosses pattée Or.
Crest: Two wings inverted and endorsed Argent conjoined by a cord with tassels Or. (BP58)
MEVERELL of Chertsey.
Arms: Argent a griffin segreant sable beaked and legged Gules. (BGA)
MICHELHAM Baron see STERN
MICKLETHWAIT Sir John Gore Micklethwait, KC, JP, MA, BCL (Oxon), of Penheim, Monmouthshire, (1870-1951), descended
from John Micklethwait, of Ingbirchworth, Yorkshire, who obtained a certificate of his arms, 1626, had issue, an eldest son Rear-Admiral St.
John Aldrich Micklethwait, CB, DSO, DL, of Penheim, (b.1901), father of John Douglas Pelham Micklethwait, of Hydestile House, Godalming,
(b.1933); a 2 nd son Sir Robert Gore Micklethwait, QC, MA (Oxon), of Llanthony, Harvest Road, Englefield Green, (b.1902); and a 3 rd son Eric
Walter Eustace Micklethwait, MA (Cantab), of The Elms, Tite Hill, Egham, (b.1906).
Arms: Chequy Argent and Gules a chief indented Azure.
Motto: Favente numine. (BLG18)
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