B56154-Vernon

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Name of the family:

Vernon

Blason:

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, ar. a fret sa., for Vernon; 2nd and 3rd, gu. three bars gemel ar. a chev. erm. on a chief of the second three blackamoors' heads ppr. a canton of the field charged with a battle axe or, all within a border counter-compony of the second and az., for Smith.

Crest(s):

1st, Vernon, A boar's head erased sa. ducally gorged or; 2nd, Smith, A cubit arm erect in armour ppr. charged with a battle axe sa. the hand grasping two wreaths of laurel pendent on either side also ppr.

Supporters:

Dexter, a boar sa. ducally gorged, and suspended therefrom by a chain an escutcheon or, charged with a rose gu. slipped ppr.; sinister, a wyvern vert, plain collared, and suspended therefrom by a chain an escutcheon or, charged with a rose gu. slipped ppr.

Motto:

Vernon semper viret.

Info about the family:

Baron Lyveden; Richard Vernon, b. 1726, fifth son of Henry Vernon, Esq., of Hilton, d.s.p. m.; his second dau, and co-heir, Caroline Maria Vernon, m. 1798, Robert Percy Smith, Esq., and her son Robert Smith, assumed the surname of Vernon by royal licence, 1846, and was created a peer 1859

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1056

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