Surrey Coats of Arms I - Surrey County Council

SURREY COATS OF ARMS
POLLOCK Viscount Hanworth. From Sir Frederick Pollock, 1 st Bart., (see preceding entry), descended also Sir Ernest Murray
Pollock, 1 st Viscount Hanworth, 1 st Baron Hanworth of Hanworth, Middlesex, 1 st Bart., PC, KBE, JP, MA (Cantab), (1861-1936), Master of the
Rolls, 1923-35, who was Recorder of Kingston-upon-Thames, 1911-23. He was succeeded by his grandson Lieutenant-Colonel Sir David
Bertram Pollock, 2 nd Viscount Hanworth, BA (Cantab), C.Eng, MIMech.E, FIEE, FIQA, FRPS, barrister-at-law, (b.1916), who was formerly of
Folly Hill, Ewhurst, and is now, (1980), of Quoin Cottage, Shamley Green.
Arms: Azure three fleurs-de-lys within a bordure engrailed Or on a chief Ermine two portcullises of the second.
Crest: A boar passant quarterly Or and Vert pierced through the sinister shoulder with an arrow Proper.
Supporters: On either side a bear Or muzzled collared and chained Sable.
Motto: Audacter et strenue. (BP105; DPB1980)
POLLOCK see MONTAGU-POLLOCK
POLSTED * of Polsted in Compton, and later of Albury.
Arms: Argent fretty Sable.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or a boar head and neck Sable. (Gen. Arm.; Harl. Ms 1561)
* BGA records this as Polstrod, or Polstodd
POLSTED of Purley.
Arms: Argent fretty Sable.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Or a boar head and neck Sable.
As borne (SV1623) by Henry Polsted of London, merchant, son of Henry Polsted of Purley, son of Henry Polsted, (d.1556) of Purley, descended
from the Polsteds of Albury.
POLSTED of Thames Ditton.
Arms: Argent on a bend between two mullets Gules three trefoils slipped of the first, on a chief Azure a pelican vulning herself
between two flowers * stalked and leaved all Or.
From the brass in Thames Ditton Church to John Polsted, (d.Sep 1, 1540). (SAC xxvii 73; Harl. Ms 1561)
* (VCHS iii 466) records the flowers as trefoils; and the arms as impaling..a camel.. between three demi Catherine wheels.. on a chief.. a
Catherine wheel... for Anne Wheeler, wife of the above John Polsted.
POLTOCK of Surrey.
Arms: Azure an inescutcheon within an orle of eight cinquefoils Or. (BGA)
POMEROY Viscount Harberton. (DPB1868) records Latchmere House, Ham Common, as the residence of James Spencer
Pomeroy, 6 th Viscount Harberton, JP, MA (Cantab), (1836-1912).
Arms: Or a lion rampant Gules holding in the dexter fore paw an apple slipped a bordure engrailed sable.
Crest: A lion rampant Gules holding in the dexter fore paw an apple slipped
Supporters: Two wolves, the dexter Proper, the sinister Argent, both plain collared and chained Or.
Motto: Virtutis fortuna comes.
Burke records the arms and crest as:
Arms: Or a lion rampant Gules holding between the paws an apple Proper.
Crest: A lion rampant Gules holding between the paws an apple Proper. (BP58)
PONSONBY Earl of Bessborough. Bessborough House, Putney, was built for Brabazon Ponsonby, 1 st Earl of Bessborough, (1679-
1758). (VCHS iv 80)
Arms: Gules a chevron between three combs Argent.
Crest: On a ducal coronet Or three arrows one in pale and two in saltire points downwards shafts Gold feathered and pointed Argent
entwined by a snake Proper.
Supporters: Two lions reguardant Proper.
Motto: Pro rege lege grege. (BGA)
PONSONBY Baron Sysonby. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Edward Grey Ponsonby, PC, GCB, GCVO, (1867-1935), 2 nd
son of General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby, PC, GCB, (1825-95), and descended from Frederick, 3 rd Earl of Bessborough, (1758-1844), was
created Baron Sysonby of Wonersh, 1935. His son Edward Gaspard, 2 nd Baron Sysonby, DSO, (1903-56), was of Great Tangley Manor,
Guildford; the present holder of the title is his son, the 3 rd Baron Sysonby.
Arms: Gules a chevron between three combs Argent.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet Azure three arrows one in pale and two in saltire points downwards entwined by a snake Proper.
Supporters: On either side a lion guardant crowned with a Saxon crown Or and charged on the shoulder with a key wards downwards and
inwards.
Motto: Pro rege lege grege. (BP105)
PONTIFEX William Pontifex of Grove Lodge, Mitcham, later of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, and of London, merchant, (1766-1851), had
issue, a 2 nd son William Pontifex of Chichester, {Sussex} and London, (1793-1870), who was father of, amongst others, William Pontifex of
Denbighs, Haslemere, and of Chilworth Manor.
Arms: Azure in base barry of four Argent and of the first a bridge of three arches embattled Proper and a chief of the second thereon
two pallets between as many mullets of the field.
Crest: A tower Proper charged with a cross moline Azure surmounted by a rainbow also Proper.
Motto: In hoc signo vinces. (BFR; FD7)
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