2. Arg., a bend cotised sa., within a bordure engrailed gu. (bezantée). Westcote.
3. Gu., a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or. Burley.
4. France and England quarterly, within a bordure gobony, arg. and az. By right of descent from Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Gilbert Talbot, and great-great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Plantagenet.
Coronet.—That of a Baron.
Supporters.—On either side a merman ppr., in his exterior hand a trident or. But in several instances of early use, a dexter Supporter alone is found.
Motto.—Ung dieu ung roy.
[Littleton. The first part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. London, 1794.]
[The Viscount Cobham, Hagley Hall, Stourbridge.]
William Henry Lyttelton (born 24th December 1724, died 14th September 1808) was the fifth son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, Baronet, who was created Viscount Cobham in 1718. In 1776 Mr. Lyttelton was created Baron Westcote in the Peerage of Ireland, and on the death of his nephew, Sir Thomas Lyttelton, second Baron Lyttelton, he succeeded to the Baronetcy and the English peerage expired.
Lord Westcote was Governor of South Carolina and of Jamaica, and Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Portugal. In 1794 he was created Baron Lyttelton in the Peerage of England, assuming the same title as had become extinct by the death of his nephew in 1779. Lord Lyttelton was a descendant of the great lawyer, Sir Thomas Lyttelton, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, who wrote the celebrated treatise on Tenures, in the fifteenth century.