BAYNTUN, WILLIAM
Arms.—Impaled.
Dexter: Sa., a bend lozengy arg. Bayntun.
Sinister: Gu., a fess dancetty between three cross crosslets fitchée or. Gore.
Crest.—A griffin's head erased sa., beaked or.
Legend.—Sigil gul Bayntun.
[England. Statuta in Parlameto, etc. London, 1504.]
Probably the arms of William Bayntun, who was Consul-General at Algiers in the latter half of the eighteenth century. His son Henry became an Admiral and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1839.
