SMYTHE, THOMAS, VISCOUNT STRANGFORD
Arms.—Quartered.
1. Az., a chevron engrailed between 3 lions passant or. Smythe.
2. Gu., a fess raguly between 3 boars' heads couped arg. Judd.
3. Az., 3 lions rampant within a bordure arg. Chiche.
4. Arg., 2 chevrons az., a canton gu. Dexter.
5. Arg., a cross voided gu. Pilkington.
6. Arg., 5 chevrons sa. Sutton.
7. Or, a chevron between 3 cinquefoils gu. Chichele.
8. Arg., a cross voided sa. Duckenfield.
9. Or, on a chevron sa., a mullet arg., a crescent for difference. Mirfin.
Crest.—An ounce's head erased arg., collared and chained sa.
Note.—Used before 1628.
[Moulin. Anatomie of Melancholy. London, 1620.]
Thomas Smythe (born c. 1599, died 30th June 1635) was the son of Sir John Smythe of Ostenhanger and Ashford, High Sheriff of Kent in 1600. Thomas Smythe inherited a considerable fortune from his father, who was a son of Thomas Smythe, Farmer of the Customs to Queen Elizabeth, his mother being Alice Judd, daughter of Sir Andrew Judd, Lord Mayor of London and founder of Tunbridge School. In 1625, at the coronation of Charles I., Thomas Smythe was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and three years later he was created Viscount of Strangford.
