Clan Cooper Armorial Bearings

Coat of arms of the Earl of Shaftesbury

THOMAS SinXEY COOPER, Esquire, R.A. IJorn
1803. Armorial bearings as used, but to whiih he /las no
right ic’/iatsoever, are the arms of Ashley, namely: Anient,
three bulls passant sable. Crest— O// a chapeaii proper, a
hull sable. Postal addresses— 42 Chepstow Villas, West-
bourne drove, London, IV.; Vernon Holme, Harbledoion
Canterbury. ‘

WILLIAM CKAUFURD COOPER. Born 1881, lieing
the eldest son of the late William Samuel Cooper, Esq.,
of Failford, co. Ayr, J. P. and D.L., Major .Ayrshire Yeo-
manry, LL.a and LL.M., 15arrisler-at-Law, by his wife
Amy 1′” ranees, dau. of Lieut. -Col. Rolxjrt Gordon, Adjutant-
Gen. Madras Army. Armorial bearings — Quarterly, i.
argent, on a Ixjnd engrailed between two lions rampant
gules, three crescents of the field, all within a bordure chet|uy
argent and azure (for Cooper) ; 2 and 3, quartered i. and iiii.,
argent, on a chief gules, three lions’ heads erased of the
first, all vvilhin a bordure ermine (for Ritchie); ii. and iii.,
gules a fesse ermine, and in chief a mullet of the last (for
Craufurd); 4. argent, a chevron gules, surmounted of an-
other ermine, ix;twixt three laurel slips vert, all within a
liordure che<|uy as the former (for Couper or Cowper).
Mantling gules and argent; and for his Crest, upon a
wreath of the colours, on the dexter side, issuaiu out of a
wreath argent and gules, a dexter hand holding a garland
of laurel botli jiroper ; and over the .same the Motto, ” Vir-
tute ; ” and on the sinister, upon a wreath argent and azure,
an oak tree with a branch borne down by a weight, both
proper ; and over the same the Motto, ” Resurgo.” Seat—
I’ailford, ‘I’arljolton, co. Ayr.