England; Peerage of the United Kingdom
Barons Amherst of Hackney — formal 1892 baronial achievement
- Family / house
- Tyssen-Amherst; Cecil; Amhurst; Foulden Hall; Didlington Hall; Hackney
- Family / cadet branch
- Barons Amherst of Hackney; later Cecil male-line succession
- Armiger / bearer
- William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney, and successors under the special remainder
- Entity type
- family
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- College of Arms; Peerage records
- Record basis
- grant
- Issued / first recorded
- 26 August 1892
- Historical period
- Late Victorian peerage
- Grant / record reference
- Letters patent creating the barony of Amherst of Hackney, 26 August 1892
- Blazon
- Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, six escutcheons three, two and one Sable, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, a mullet for difference, for Cecil; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, three tilting-spears two and one Or, headed Argent, for Amherst. Crest: On a chapeau Gules turned up Ermine, a garb Or supported by two lions rampant, the dexter Argent and the sinister Azure. Supporters: On either side a heron Proper collared Or. Motto: COR UNUM VIA UNA.
- Plain-English description
- The shield combines the Cecil coat, marked by a mullet, with the Amherst spear arms. Above it is a gold sheaf supported by a white and a blue lion; two collared herons support the shield.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules; Or; Ermine; Proper
- Charges / ordinaries
- escutcheons; lions rampant; mullet; tilting-spears; garb; herons
- Crest
- On a red cap turned up ermine, a gold garb supported by two lions, the dexter white and the sinister blue.
- Motto
- COR UNUM VIA UNA
- Exterior ornaments
- Peer's coronet appropriate to a baron; two heron supporters. The achievement could be adapted to female armorial conventions for the suo jure 2nd Baroness.
- Difference / variant
- Principal baronial design. The Cecil quarters are not the ordinary undifferenced Exeter coat: they carry a mullet for difference, reflecting the younger Cecil line through Lord William Cecil of Exeter.
- Source reference
- Cracroft's Peerage, Amherst of Hackney
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
This is the core registry record for the subject. The use of the Cecil quarters with a mullet and the Amherst quarters is the defining armorial feature of the barony.