Armorial of the speakers of the English House of Commons
Armorial of the speakers of the House of Commons is displayed at the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster. Speakers customarily took a grant of arms while in office if they were not armigerous already. Their shields of arms are painted on the interior walls of Speaker's House.
Earlier parlours and prolocutors (1258-1376)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Peter de Montfort, Prolocutor 1258-64
Escutcheon: Bendy of eight Or and Azure. | |
Sir William Trussell, Prolocutor 1327, 1340 and 1343
Escutcheon: Argent a cross fleury Gules. | |
Henry de Beaumont, Prolocutor 1332
Escutcheon: Azure semée of fleurs-de-lys a lion rampant Or. | |
Sir Geoffrey le Scrope, Prolocutor 1332
Escutcheon: Azure a bend Or. | |
Sir William de Thorpe, Prolocutor 1347–8
Escutcheon: Barry of fourteen Or and Sable.[1] | |
Sir William de Shareshull, Prolocutor 1351
Escutcheon: Barry nebully of six Argent and Gules a bordure Sable bezanty.[2] | |
Sir Peter de la Mare, Prolocutor 1376–7
Escutcheon: Gules two chevrons Or. |
Richard II (1377-1399)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir Thomas Hungerford, Speaker of the House 1377
Escutcheon: Sable two bars Argent in chief three plates. | |
Sir James Pickering, Speaker of the House 1378 and 1382–3
Escutcheon: Ermine a lion passant Azure crowned Or. | |
John Guildesborough, Speaker of the House 1379–80
Escutcheon: Argent three piles Gules. | |
Sir Richard Waldegrave, Speaker of the House 1381–2
Escutcheon: Per pale Argent and Gules. | |
Sir John Bussy, Speaker of the House 1394–7
Escutcheon: Or three water bougets Argent. |
Henry IV (1399-1413)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir John Cheyne, Speaker of the House 1399
Blazon not available. | |
John Doreward, Speaker of the House 1399 and 1413
Escutcheon: Ermine on a chevron Sable three crescents Or. | |
Sir Arnold Savage, Speaker of the House 1400-2 and 1403-4
Escutcheon: Argent six lions rampant Sable. | |
Sir Henry Redford, Speaker of the House 1402
Escutcheon: Argent fretty Sable a chief of the second. | |
Sir William Esturmy, Speaker of the House 1404
Escutcheon: Argent three demi-lions rampant Gules. | |
Sir John Tiptoft (later Baron Tiptoft), Speaker of the House 1405-6
Escutcheon: Argent a saltire engrailed Gules. | |
Thomas Chaucer, Speaker of the House 1407–11, 1414-4[clarification needed] and 1421
Escutcheon: Per pale Argent and Gules a bend counterchanged. |
Henry V (1413-1422)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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William Stourton, Speaker of the House 1413
Escutcheon: Sable a bend Or between six fountains. | |
Sir Walter Hungerford (later Baron Hungerford), Speaker of the House 1414-5
Escutcheon: Sable two bars Argent in chief three plates. | |
Sir Richard Redman, Speaker of the House 1415
Blazon not available. | |
Sir Walter Beauchamp, Speaker of the House 1416
Escutcheon: Gules a fess between six martlets Or. | |
Roger Flower, Speaker of the House 1416-9
Escutcheon: Sable ermined Argent a pierced cinquefoil Ermine. | |
Roger Hunt, Speaker of the House 1420-1
Blazon not available. |
Henry VI (1422-1461)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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John Russell, Speaker of the House 1423-4 and 1432
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron between three crosses bottonée fitchée Sable. | |
Sir Thomas Walton, Speaker of the House 1424-6
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron between three annulets Sable. | |
Sir Richard Vernon, Speaker of the House 1426
Escutcheon: Chequy Or and Azure on a canton Gules a lion rampant Argent. | |
Sir John Tyrell, Speaker of the House 1427–8, 1431 and 1437
Escutcheon: Argent two chevrons Azure a bordure engrailed Gules. | |
William Alington, Speaker of the House 1429-30
Escutcheon: Sable a bend engrailed between six billets Argent. | |
John Bowes, Speaker of the House 1435
Escutcheon: Ermine three bows strung in pale Gules. | |
William Burley, Speaker of the House 1437 and 1445
Escutcheon: Argent a lion rampant Sable armed Gules debruised with a fesse counter-compony Or and Argent. | |
Sir William Tresham, Speaker of the House 1439–42, 1446-7 and 1449–50
Escutcheon: Per saltire Argent and Sable in chief three trefoils slipped Vert two and one in base one and two of the last. | |
John Say, Speaker of the House 1449 and 1463-8
Escutcheon: Per pale Azure and Gules three chevronels Or voided and counterchanged. | |
Sir John Popham, Speaker of the House 1449
Escutcheon: Argent on a chief Gules two bucks' heads cabossed Or. | |
William Oldhall, Speaker of the House 1450-2
Escutcheon: Per pale Azure and Purpure a lion rampant Ermine. | |
Thomas Thorpe, Speaker of the House 1453-4
Blazon not available. | |
Thomas Charlton, Speaker of the House 1454
Blazon not available. | |
Sir John Wenlock (later Baron Wenlock), Speaker of the House 1455-6
Escutcheon: Or a cross formée extending to the extremities of the shield chequy Or and Sable. | |
Thomas Tresham, Speaker of the House 1459
Blazon not available. | |
John Green, Speaker of the House 1460
Escutcheon: Per fess Sable and Argent a lion rampant crowned counterchanged. |
Edward IV (1461-1483)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir James Strangeways, Speaker of the House 1461-2
Escutcheon: Sable two lions passant paly of six Argent and Gules. | |
William Alington, Speaker of the House 1472-8
Escutcheon: Sable a bend engrailed between six billets Argent. | |
John Wood, Speaker of the House 1483
Blazon not available. |
No parliament was summoned during Edward V's brief reign.
Richard III (1483-1485)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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William Catesby, Speaker of the House 1484
Escutcheon: Argent two lions passant Sable crowned Or. |
Henry VII (1485-1509)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir Thomas Lovell, Speaker of the House 1485-8
Escutcheon: Or a chevron Azure between three squirrels sejant Gules. | |
Sir John Mordaunt, Speaker of the House 1487-9
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron between three estoiles of six Sable. | |
Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, Speaker of the House 1489-90
Escutcheon: Lozengy Argent and Gules. | |
Sir Richard Empson, Speaker of the House 1490-2
Escutcheon: Argent two bends Sable. | |
Sir Robert Drury, Speaker of the House 1495
Escutcheon: Argent on a chief vert a cross tau between two mullets pierced Or. | |
Thomas Englefield, Speaker of the House 1496-7 and 1509–10
Escutcheon: Azure a griffin passant and a chief Or. | |
Edmond Dudley, Speaker of the House 1503
Escutcheon: Or a lion rampant Azure a double quevée Vert. |
Henry VIII (1509-1547)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir Robert Sheffield, Speaker of the House 1512-3
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron between three garbs Gules. | |
Sir Thomas Nevill, Speaker of the House 1515
Escutcheon: Gules a saltire Argent. | |
Sir Thomas More, Speaker of the House 1523
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron engrailed between three moorcocks Sable combs wattles and legs Gules. | |
Sir Thomas Audley (later Baron Audley of Walden), Speaker of the House 1529-1533
Escutcheon: Quarterly per pale indented Or and Azure in the 2nd and 3rd an eagle displayed of the 1st on a bend of the 2nd a fret between two martlets of the 1st.[5] | |
Sir Humphrey Wingfield, Speaker of the House 1533-6
Escutcheon: Argent on a bend Gules cotised Sable three pairs of wings conjoined of the field. | |
Sir Richard Rich, Speaker of the House 1536
Escutcheon: Gules a chevron between three cross crosslets Or. | |
Sir Nicholas Hare, Speaker of the House 1539-40
Escutcheon: Gules two bars Or a chief indented of the last. | |
Sir Thomas Moyle, Speaker of the House 1542-4
Escutcheon: Gules a mule passant within a bordure Argent. | |
Sir John Baker, Speaker of the House 1545-52
Escutcheon: Azure on a fess between three swans' heads erased and ducally gorged Or as many cinquefoils Gules. |
Edward VI (1547-1553)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir James Dyer, Speaker of the House 1553
Escutcheon: Or a chief indented Gules. |
Mary I (1553-1558)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir John Pollard, Speaker of the House 1553 and 1555
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron Sable between three escallops Gules. | |
Robert Broke, Speaker of the House 1554
Escutcheon: Chequy Argent and Sable on a canton Vert a brock passant Proper. | |
Clement Higham, Speaker of the House 1554-5
Escutcheon: Sable a fess chequy Or and Azure between three horses' heads erased Argent. | |
William Cordell, Speaker of the House 1558-9
Escutcheon: Gules a chevron Ermine between three griffins' heads erased Argent. |
Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir Thomas Gargrave, Speaker of the House 1559
Escutcheon: Lozengy Or and Sable on a bend of the first three crescents of the second. | |
Thomas Williams, Speaker of the House 1563
Escutcheon: Sable three curlews' heads erased Argent. | |
Richard Onslow, Speaker of the House 1566-71
Escutcheon: Argent a fess Gules between six Cornish choughs Proper. | |
Sir Christopher Wray, Speaker of the House 1571
Escutcheon: Azure on a chief Or three martlets Gules. | |
Robert Bell, Speaker of the House 1572-76
Escutcheon: Sable a fess Ermine between three bells Argent.[7] | |
John Puckering, Speaker of the House 1584-6
Escutcheon: Sable a bend fusily cottised Argent. | |
Thomas Snagge, Speaker of the House 1589
Escutcheon: Argent three pheons Sable. | |
Edward Coke, Speaker of the House 1592-3
Escutcheon: Party per pale Gules and Azure three eagles displayed Argent. | |
Christopher Yelverton, Speaker of the House 1597-8
Escutcheon: Argent three lions rampant and a chief Gules. | |
John Croke, Speaker of the House 1601
Escutcheon: Gules a fess between six martlets Argent. |
James I (1603-1625)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir Edward Phelips, Speaker of the House 1603-1611
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron Gules between three roses Proper. | |
Sir Ranulph Crewe, Speaker of the House 1614
Escutcheon: Azure a lion rampant Argent. | |
Sir Thomas Richardson, Speaker of the House 1621-1622
Escutcheon: Argent on a chief Sable three lions' heads erased of the field. A canton Azure charged with St Andrew's cross Argent. | |
Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House 1623-25
Escutcheon: Azure a lion rampant Argent. |
Charles I (1625-1649)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir Heneage Finch, Speaker of the House 1625-6
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron between three griffins passant Sable. | |
Sir John Finch (later Baron Finch), Speaker of the House 1628-9
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron between three griffins passant Sable. | |
John Glanville, Speaker of the House 1640
Escutcheon: Argent three Saltires Or. | |
William Lenthall, Speaker of the House 1640–47, 1647–53, 1654–55, 1659 and 1659–60
Escutcheon: Argent on a bend cotised Sable three mullets Or. | |
Henry Pelham, Speaker of the House 1647 |
Interregnum (1649-1660)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Francis Rous, Speaker of the House 1653
Escutcheon: Or an eagle displayed pruning its wings Azure with beak and bill Gules. | |
Sir Thomas Widdrington, Speaker of the House 1655-58
Escutcheon: Quarterly Argent and Gules a bend Sable. | |
Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, Speaker of the House 1657
Escutcheon: Quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure a chevron engrailed between three goshawks close Or (Whitelocke); 2 and 3, Argent on a bend gules three stags' heads erased Or (Bulstrode).[9][10] | |
Chaloner Chute, Speaker of the House 1658-9
Escutcheon: Gules three swords barways the points towards the dexter Proper pomels and hilts Or. | |
Sir Lislebone Long, Speaker of the House 1659
Escutcheon: Sable semée of crosses crosslet a lion rampant Argent. | |
Thomas Bampfield, Speaker of the House 1659
Escutcheon: Or on a bend Gules three mullets Argent. | |
Sir Harbottle Grimston, Speaker of the House 1660
Escutcheon: Argent on a fess Sable three mullets of six points Or pierced Gules in the dexter chief point an Ermine spot. |
Charles II (1660-1685)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Sir Edward Turnour, Speaker of the House 1661-71
Escutcheon: Ermines on a cross pierced Argent four fers de molines Sable. | |
John Charlton, Speaker of the House 1672
Escutcheon: Or a lion rampant Gules a crescent for difference. | |
Edward Seymour, Speaker of the House 1673-8 and 1678-9
Escutcheon: Quarterly 1st & 4th Or on a pile Gules between six fleurs-de-lis Azure three lions of England (the coat of augmentation granted by King Henry VIII on his marriage with Lady Jane Seymour) 2nd & 3rd Gules two wings conjoined in lure the tips downwards Or. | |
Sir Robert Sawyer, Speaker of the House 1678
Escutcheon: Or two bars Azure each charged with a barrulet dancettee Argent a chief indented of the second. | |
William Gregory, Speaker of the House 1679
Escutcheon: Or two bars Azure in chief a lion passant of the last. | |
William Williams, Speaker of the House 1680-85
Escutcheon: Argent two foxes counter-salient Gules. | |
Sir John Trevor, Speaker of the House 1685-87 and 1689–95
Escutcheon: Per bend sinister Ermine and Ermines a lion rampant Or.[13] |
William III (1688-1702)
[edit]Arms | Name of Speaker and heraldic blazon |
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Henry Powle, Speaker of the House 1688-9
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron Ermine between six lions rampant Or. | |
Paul Foley, Speaker of the House 1695-98
Escutcheon: Argent a fess engrailed between three cinquefoils Sable within a bordure of the last. | |
Sir Thomas Littleton, Speaker of the House 1698-1700
Escutcheon: Argent a chevron between three escallops Sable. | |
Robert Harley (later Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer), Speaker of the House 1701-05
Escutcheon: Or a bend cotised Sable. | |
John Smith, Speaker of the House 1705-6
Escutcheon: Quarterly: 1st & 4th: azure, two bars between three pheons or (for Smith) 2nd & 3rd: Argent, a mullet pierced sable (for Assheton)[16] |
Following the Acts of Union 1707, Smith became the first Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain.
See also
[edit]- Armorial of the speakers of the British House of Commons
- Armorial of Lords of Appeal
- Armorial of Lord High Chancellors of Great Britain
- Armorial of prime ministers of the United Kingdom
References
[edit]- Palace of Westminster, Speaker's House, photographic gallery by Basil Manning.
- The Lives of the Speakers of the House of Commons, book by James Alexander Manning, 1850.
- ^ Foster. Dictionary of British Arms Volume 1.
- ^ Thomas Woodcock and Hubert Chesshyre. Dictionary of British Arms Volume 2.
- ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.302 "Drury of Thurston Rougham in Suffolk"
- ^ See image
- ^ Ashmole, Elias (1715). The History of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. London: A. Bell, E. Curll, J. Pemberton, and A. Collins; W. Taylor and J. Baker. p. 525.
- ^ "Grant of Arms: Sir Christopher Wray 1586". Stephen J F Plowman. 18 September 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ^ Metcalfe, Walter Charles (1885). A Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath, and Knights Bachelor: Made Between the Fourth Year of King Henry VI and the Restoration of King Charles II and Knights Made in Ireland, Between the Years 1566 and 1698, Together with an Index of Names. Mitchell and Hughes. p. 130.
- ^ Strong, George (1848). The Heraldry of Herefordshire: Being a Collection of the Armorial Bearings of Families Which Have Been Seated in the County at Various Periods Down to the Present Time. LONDON: Churton Press.
- ^ a b Bucks Archaeological Society: The Whitelock Monument in Fawley Church (Lorna M. Head, n.d.)
- ^ a b Portrait of Bulstrode Whitelocke, NPG
- ^ Strong, George (1848). The Heraldry of Herefordshire: Being a Collection of the Armorial Bearings of Families Which Have Been Seated in the County at Various Periods Down to the Present Time. LONDON: Churton Press.
- ^ George Strong (1848). The Heraldry of Herefordshire: Being a Collection of the Armorial Bearings of Families Which Have Been Seated in the County at Various Periods Down to the Present Time. Churton Press, London.
- ^ "Speaker Trevor, 1685-1687 & 1689-1695". Baz Manning. September 2005. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ Strong, George (1848). The Heraldry of Herefordshire: Being a Collection of the Armorial Bearings of Families Which Have Been Seated in the County at Various Periods Down to the Present Time. LONDON: Churton Press.
- ^ "Speaker Foley, 1695-1698". Baz Manning. September 2005. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1864). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Harrison & sons. p. 936.