File:DeckerImpalingWatkins Circa1720 BritishMuseum.xcf

Chinese blue porcelain heraldic plate c.1720, made for Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet (1679-1749) of Richmond Green in Surrey, of Dutch origin, MP, Governor of the South Sea Company from 1711 to 1712, and a Director of the East India Company in 1713. He married Henrietta Watkins, daughter of Rev. Richard Watkins, Rector of Whichford, Warwickshire. His grandson and eventual heir was Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam (1745-1816) of Mount Merrion, Dublin, Ireland, who by his will founded the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and whose collection contained many items acquired by Sir Matthew Decker.

Displaying arms of Decker (Argent, a demi-buck gules between his forelegs an arrow erected in pale or), with canton of a baronet, the Red Hand of Ulster; Dutch arms confirmed in 1716 to Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet, by Sir John Vanbrugh, Clarenceaux King of Arms; impaling Watkins (A fess vair between three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys); Arms of Watkins of Badby House, Northamptonshire: Azure, a fess vair between three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys or (Burkes General Armory, 1884). These are a difference of the arms of de Cantilupe, a powerful mediaeval family in the Hereford/Glamorgan regions, which were adopted with differences by many of their feudal tenants.