To return from our recent posts of "heraldic things I got distracted by" ("Ooh, shiny!") to go back to a final few heraldic monuments still to be shared from St. Margaret's Chapel, Westminster. Here, we have the memorial to John Dorington, Esq., and his wife, Sarah. (You can click on the image to see the larger photograph of this memorial.)
To the memory
of
JOHN DORINGTON,
ESQRE,
of Queen
Square,
Who departed
this life
on the 27th
of June, 1827,
aged 74
years.
Also of
SARAH
DORINGTON,
of Clarges
Street,
Relict of
the Above,
Who departed
this life
on the 13th
of February, 1845,
Aged 85 years.
Though uncolored here, the arms are blazoned in The History of the Parish Church of Saint Margaret, Westminster by Walcott (1847) as Sable three
bugle horns argent stringed gules.
There is no
entry for Dorington in Burke’s
General Armory.
Papworth’s
Ordinary of British Armorials assigns the arms as blazoned in Walcott to “Dodington, Dodington, co. Somerset;
and Meere, co. Wilts.”
Burke gives
the same attribution for these arms, but gives the crest as A lion’s jambe
proper holding a flag gules charged with a chevron or.
Fairbairn’s Crests
gives that crest cited in Burke as belonging to Dorington and Dorrington, as well as to
Dodington.
No sources
give the crest as it appears on the monument, which I take to be A stag’s or
hart’s (or possibly an elk’s) head erased.
According to
Burke’s Landed Gentry, John Edward Dorington, Esq., of Lypiatt Park (b. 1832),
was the son of John Edward Dorington, Esq., of Lypiatt Park (d. 1874), and the
grandson of John Dorington (d. 1827) and his wife Sarah Columbine (d. 1845), who are memorialized here.
The Landed Gentry gives the arms of Dorington of Lypiatt Park as Sable three
bugles argent stringed gules, with the motto Strepitus non terret ovantem (for
which I find no entry in Fairbairn’s, and so no translation, except for a somewhat
opaque one from one of the Latin-to-English on-line translators, which results
in “Noise that scares mounting”).
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