Armorial bindings; Bookplates, English; Heraldry -- Great Britain
The coat is enclosed with a fillet bearing the legend "TRIA JUNCTA IN
UNO," being the motto of the Order of the Bath. This is again enclosed
within the collar of the said Order, as worn by a Knight Grand Cross,
from which depends the badge of the Order.
[_Letters of German Authors, etc._ Egerton MS. 2407.]
Charles Long (born circ. 1760, died 17th January 1838) was the
son of Beeston Long of Carshalton Park, Surrey. He was educated
at Cambridge, and was successively Member of Parliament for
Rye, Midhurst and Wendover, and Haslemere, and held many
important offices.
In 1800 Mr. Long became joint Secretary of the Treasury,
and presently one of the Lords of the Treasury, and was
Paymaster-General from 1817 until 1826, when he was created
Baron Farnborough of Bromley Hill Place. He was a Knight
Grand Cross of the Bath, and a member of the Privy Council.
Lord Farnborough took an important part in the negotiations
with George IV., with regard to his gift to the Nation of the
Library of George III., and he also bequeathed a considerable
sum of money to the Trustees of the British Museum, to augment
the Bridgewater Fund. He was a Trustee of the British Museum, a
Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries,
and possessed a valuable collection of pictures and antiquities
at his house, Bromley Hill Place, in Kent.
[Illustration]
LYTTELTON, WILLIAM HENRY, BARON LYTTELTON
_Arms._--Quarterly.
1. Arg., a chevron between 3 escallops sa. _Lyttelton._
2. Arg., a bend cotised sa., within a bordure engrailed gu.
(bezantée). _Westcote._
3. Gu., a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or. _Burley._
4. France and England quarterly, within a bordure gobony, arg.
and az. By right of descent from Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir Gilbert Talbot, and great-great-granddaughter of John
of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. _Plantagenet._
_Coronet._--That of a Baron.
_Supporters._--On either side a merman ppr., in his exterior hand a
trident or. But in several instances of early use, a dexter Supporter
alone is found.
_Motto._--UNG DIEU UNG ROY.
[LITTLETON. _The first part of the Institutes of the Lawes
of England._ London, 1794.]
[The Viscount Cobham, Hagley Hall, Stourbridge.]
William Henry Lyttelton (born 24th December 1724, died 14th
September 1808) was the fifth son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton,
Baronet, who was created Viscount Cobham in 1718. In 1776 Mr.
Lyttelton was created Baron Westcote in the Peerage of Ireland,
and on the death of his nephew, Sir Thomas Lyttelton, second
Baron Lyttelton, he succeeded to the Baronetcy and the English
peerage expired.
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