Baron Heathfield Explained
Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created on 6 July 1787 for General Sir George Augustus Eliott in recognition of his defence of Gibraltar during the Franco-Spanish Siege of 1779 to 1783. He was the tenth but eighth surviving son of Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs (see Eliott baronets). The title became extinct on the death of his only son, the childless second Baron, in 1813.
Barons Heathfield (1787)
Coat of arms
- Arms: Gules, on a bend or a baton azure on a chief of the last the fortress of Gibraltar winged with turrets between two pillars argent masoned sable, the gate of the castle of the last charged with a key of the second and below the same the words "Plus Ultra" ("more beyond").[1]
- Crest: A dexter arm holding a cutlass proper, the arm charged with a key.
- Supporters: Dexter, a ram; sinister, a goat; each wreathed with flowers round the neck.
- Motto: Fortiter et recte ("boldly and rightly")
References
- Excepting tinctures of castle, per Genealogy of the Eliot Family, originally compiled by William Horace Eliot, revised and enlarged by William Smith Porter, Newhaven, Connecticut, 1854 https://books.google.com/books?id=xpZIAAAAMAAJ&dq=gules+on+a+bend+or+a+baton+azure+heathfield&pg=PA177. These are the arms of the Eliott Baronets of Stobs, (Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage, 1968, p.279) with augmentation for George Augustus Eliott, the 1st Baron Heathfield and youngest son of the 3rd Baronet
