Family / house

Cecil; Gascoyne-Cecil

Family / cadet branch

Rockley of Lytchett Heath

Armiger / bearer

Robert William Evelyn Cecil, 2nd Baron Rockley; Hugh Cecil, 3rd Baron Rockley; Anthony Robert Cecil, 4th Baron Rockley

Entity type

cadet_branch

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

Peerage of the United Kingdom

Record basis

recording

Issued / first recorded

1941-04-01

Historical period

Twentieth and twenty-first centuries

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; with the Rockley crest, supporters and motto SERO SED SERIO.

Plain-English description

The hereditary Rockley successors continued the same differentiated Salisbury-derived shield: ten silver-and-blue bars, six black shields with silver lions, and a red crescent bearing a smaller gold crescent.

Tinctures

Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules; Or; Ermine

Charges / ordinaries

six escutcheons; six rampant lions; double crescent; arrows; morion cap; ermine lions

Crest

Six arrows in saltire Or, barbed and flighted Argent, bound with a Gules belt and surmounted by a morion cap proper.

Motto

SERO SED SERIO

Exterior ornaments

Baron's coronet and ermine lion supporters, subject to the achievement used by each successive holder.

Difference / variant

Successional use of the Rockley cadet design established for Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley.

Source reference

Baron Rockley

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Evelyn Cecil, 1st Baron Rockley

Mother

Hon. Alicia Margaret Tyssen-Amherst

Children / next generation

Anthony Robert Cecil, 4th Baron Rockley is the current holder identified in the cited succession source; his heir is William Evelyn Cecil.

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources