Family / house

Willoughby of Middleton; Willoughby of Wollaton; Willoughby of Birdsall; Eyre; Bosville; Armytage

Family / cadet branch

Birdsall branch descended from Rev. Hon. James Willoughby

Armiger / bearer

Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Entity type

individual

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

English heraldic jurisdiction; University of Nottingham and National Portrait Gallery records

Record basis

ancient_usage

Issued / first recorded

1817-08-28

Until / superseded

1877-12-20

Historical period

Victorian England

Grant / record reference

Inherited Middleton baronial achievement in 1856 after the death of Digby, 7th Baron Middleton

Blazon

Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Or, fretty Azure; 2nd and 3rd, Or, on two bars Gules three water-bougets Argent, two and one. Motto: VERITÉ SANS PEUR.

Plain-English description

Henry continued the inherited Middleton composite arms and carried the title from the Hesley succession back into the Birdsall branch.

Tinctures

Or; Azure; Gules; Argent

Charges / ordinaries

fretty; two bars; three water-bougets

Crest

The Middleton baronial man's bust, ducally crowned Or.

Motto

VERITÉ SANS PEUR

Exterior ornaments

Baron's coronet and traditional Middleton supporters.

Difference / variant

The 8th Baron represents a further collateral succession, not a new armorial design.

Source reference

University of Nottingham, biography of Henry Willoughby, 8th Baron Middleton

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Henry Willoughby of Birdsall

Mother

Charlotte Eyre

Spouse(s)

Hon. Julia Louisa Bosville, daughter of Alexander William Robert Bosville

Children / next generation

Digby Wentworth Bayard Willoughby, 9th Baron Middleton; Godfrey Ernest Percival Willoughby, 10th Baron Middleton; Alexandrina Henrietta Matilda Willoughby, later Lady Thorold; Hon. Francis Henry Stirling Willoughby; Colonel Hon. Claude Henry Comaraich Willoughby; Hon. Alexander Hugh Willoughby

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources