Baron Alvanley Explained

Baron Alvanley, of Alvanley in the County Palatine of Chester, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 May 1801 for Sir Richard Arden, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and former Master of the Rolls.^[1] The title became extinct on the death of his second son, the third Baron (who had succeeded his elder brother), in 1857.

Barons Alvanley (1801)

• Richard Pepper Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley (1744 - 1804)
• William Arden, 2nd Baron Alvanley (1789 - 1849)
• Richard Pepper Arden, 3rd Baron Alvanley (1792 - 1857)

Arms

Escutcheon:	Gules three cross-crosslets fitchée Or on a chief of the second a crescent of the first.
Crest:	Out of a ducal coronet Or five ostrich feathers Argent charged with a crescent Gules.
Supporters:	Two talbots the dexter Argent collared Gules thereon three arrows of the first the sinister Sable thereon three arrows Gules.
Motto:	Patientiâ Vinces ^[2]

Notes and References

1. Edmund Lodge, The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing (Saunders and Otley, 1833), 17.
2. Book: Burke's Peerage . 1850.