English: *Left: Arms of Brisbane (of Brisbane, in Ayrshire ; and Makerstoun, on the banks of the Tweed, in Roxburghshire). Arms of Sir Charles Brisbane KCB (c. 1769 – December 1829) was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the American War of Independence, and with distinction under Lords Hood and Nelson. He took part in 1796 in the capitulation of Saldanha Bay, the capture of the Spanish frigate Pomona off Havana, Cuba in 1806, and then in 1807 was in command at capture of the island of Curaçao. He was made governor of St. Vincent in 1808, and served as such until his death in 1829. Arms: Sa. a chev. checquy or, and gu. between three cushions of the second;

• Right: Arms of Rolls, of The Hendre, near Monmouth (The Rolls family of Monmouth derive from John Rolls (1735–1801), son of Aaron and Elizabeth Rolls, the Grange, Bermondsey, and of the Hendre, Monmouthshire, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1794. Charles Stewart Rolls was the co-founder of the Rolls-Royce company): Quarterly of 4:
  • 1&4: Or, on a fesse dancettée with plain cotises between three billets sable each charged with a lion rampant of the field as many bezants (Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.868; motto: Celeritas et Veritas), difference of Rolle of Stevenstone, Devon (Baron Rolle).

Identifier: armorialfamilies02infoxd (find matches)
Title: Armorial families; a complete peerage, baronetage, and knightage, and a directory of some gentlemen of coat-armour, and being the first attempt to show which arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles, 1871-1928, comp. cn
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Publisher: Edinburgh, Jack
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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