CHETWYND, WALTER
Arms.—Quartered.
1. Az., a chevron between 3 mullets or. Chetwynd.
2. Arg., 2 chevrons az. Bagot.
3. Quarterly, arg. and az., on a bend gu., 3 fleurs-de-lys or. Garshall.
4. Arg., 3 bars sa. Raymond.
5. Gu., 10 billets or. Salter.
6. Sa., 3 fishes naiant in pale or. Verney.
7. Gu., a lion rampant erm. Meriford.
8. Gu., 5 piles issuing from the sinister. Henderson (?).
9. Sa., 3 pheons arg. Egerton of Shropshire.
10. Paly wavy of 6, arg. and gu. Gurnon.
11. Arg., a chevron between 3 oak leaves vert. Haslerigg.
12. Az., a lion rampant or. Hetherfield.
[Democritus. Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford, 1628.]
Walter Chetwynd (born circ. 1620, died 1693) was a son of Walter Chetwynd of Ingestre, in Staffordshire. He was Member of Parliament for Stafford, and for Staffordshire, and Sheriff in 1680.
Chetwynd was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and an Antiquary, particularly as concerned the County of Staffordshire. He was a friend of Dr. Robert Plot, who wrote The Natural History of Staffordshire in 1686, and assisted him in many ways. His collections of drawings and manuscripts were nearly all lost in a fire at Ingestre in 1882.
