Family / house

Tyssen-Amherst later Cecil

Family / cadet branch

Barons Amherst of Hackney; Tyssen-Amherst/Cecil of Didlington, Foulden and Hackney

Armiger / bearer

William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney

Entity type

cadet_branch

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

Letters Patent of 26 August 1892; peerage and heraldic compilations

Record basis

grant

Issued / first recorded

1892-08-26

Historical period

Late Victorian United Kingdom

Grant / record reference

Barony of Amherst of Hackney, letters patent dated 26 August 1892, with special remainder to the eldest daughter Mary Rothes Margaret Cecil and the heirs male of her body.

Blazon

Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, 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.

Plain-English description

The first and fourth quarters are the Cecil coat of ten silver-and-blue bars over six black shields bearing silver lions, marked with a mullet because this is the younger Cecil line. The second and third quarters are the Amherst red shield with three gold spears tipped silver. The achievement unites the Cecil and Amherst inheritances through the marriage and special remainder.

Tinctures

Argent; Azure; Sable; Gules; Or

Charges / ordinaries

six escutcheons; lions rampant; mullet; tilting-spears

Crest

On a chapeau Gules turned up Ermine, a garb Or supported by two lions rampant, the dexter Argent and the sinister Azure.

Motto

COR UNUM VIA UNA

Exterior ornaments

Two herons proper collared Or as supporters; a peer's coronet may be used with the achievement. The supporters and motto are recorded with the barony's arms.

Difference / variant

A distinct Cecil cadet achievement created by the 1892 Amherst of Hackney peerage. The Cecil quarters are not the undifferenced Exeter coat: they carry a mullet for difference. The Amherst quarters and the special-remainder succession distinguish this branch from both the senior Exeter and Salisbury Cecil lines.

Source reference

Cracroft's Peerage, Amherst of Hackney

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

William George Daniel-Tyssen, later Tyssen-Amherst

Mother

Mary Fountaine

Spouse(s)

Margaret Susan Mitford

Children / next generation

Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, later 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney; Sybil Margaret Tyssen-Amherst; Florence Margaret Tyssen-Amherst; Margaret Mitford Tyssen-Amherst; Geraldine Margaret Tyssen-Amherst; Beatrice Margaret Tyssen-Amherst

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources