Family / house

Cecil; Rockley; Cadogan

Family / cadet branch

Rockley of Lytchett Heath

Armiger / bearer

James Hugh Cecil, 3rd Baron Rockley

Entity type

cadet_branch

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

Peerage succession and baronial armorial usage

Record basis

recording

Issued / first recorded

26 January 1976

Until / superseded

5 December 2011

Historical period

Late twentieth-century Britain

Grant / record reference

Succession to Baron Rockley on 26 January 1976

Blazon

Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, and for difference a crescent Gules charged with another crescent Or. Crest, supporters and motto as for the Barons Rockley.

Plain-English description

The third baron continued the double-crescent Rockley arms unchanged. His marriage connected the branch to the Cadogan earls, but no documented quartering or impalement for his personal use has been located.

Tinctures

Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules; Or; Ermine

Charges / ordinaries

six lion-bearing escutcheons; double crescent; arrows and morion; ermine lions; pendant shields

Crest

As for the Barons Rockley.

Motto

SERO SED SERIO

Exterior ornaments

Baronial achievement; no separately evidenced Cadogan quartering recorded.

Difference / variant

Inherited Rockley achievement; Cadogan appears as a documented marital connection rather than an established quartered component of the baronial arms.

Source reference

Cracroft's Peerage, Rockley, Baron (UK, 1934)

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Robert William Evelyn Cecil, 2nd Baron Rockley

Mother

Anne Margaret Meade-Fetherstonhaugh

Spouse(s)

Lady Sarah Primrose Beatrix Cadogan

Children / next generation

Hon. Caroline Anne Cecil; Anthony Robert Cecil, 4th Baron Rockley; Hon. Camilla Sarah Cecil

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources