Sorry, I just can't seem to get the old Bob Marley song, "I Shot the Sheriff", out of my head. I should be over it by the time for my next post, though.
Today, we are going to look at the arms of two more Sheriff's of Middlesex to be found in the stained glass windows of the Supreme Court of the UK building, formerly the Middlesex Guildhall.
First, on the left in the image below, we have the arms of Frederick Cox. He was a financier, the senior partner in the firm of Cox and Co., Army agents and bankers, of Charing Cross. He was also a director of various life insurance or investment companies.
Away from the office, Frederick Cox threw himself into public endeavours. He was involved in the Chelsea Hospital for Women and in 1884 he was on the committee organising a famed entertainment; The Shakspearean Show to aid the hospital. He worked for the Home Hospitals Association and was a Governors of the British Lying-in Hospital, and Trustee of the Egyptian War Fund for the widows and families of the war in the Sudan, which later developed into the Imperial War Fund, whose meetings he hosted at Cox & Co.
He became Sheriff of Middlesex in 1901.
His arms are blazoned: Argent three cocks gules crowned or on a chief azure on a pale between two ostrich feathers argent a rose gules. The crest is: A cock gules. And the motto: Gard la Foy (“Guard the faith”).
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Once again, I recommend clicking on the image above to see the full-size, more detailed photograph of the arms here.
And on the right, we have the arms of Alfred Henry Tarleton. He was a naval man. In the 1880s he served on torpedo boats, a new concept for the Royal Navy at the time, and later on larger warships. In the 1890s Lieutenant Tarleton was Treasurer of the Deptford Fund, a charity to relieve the hardships of the poor in Deptford, a naval dockyard town on the Thames. Other charities in which he took a leading role included the Chelsea Hospital for Women, the Order of Mercy and the Order of St John, in which he had the remarkable rank of a “Knight of Grace of St John of Jerusalem”. He became an Equerry to HRH the Duchess of Albany. He became Sheriff of Middlesex for the year 1909-1910. In 1913, Tarleton attended the Guildhall’s opening, commanding the Middlesex Boy Scouts in the Guard of Honour.
His arms are blazoned: Quarterly, 1st & 4th, Gules a chevron erminois between three cinquefoils or (Tarleton); 2nd & 3rd, Argent on a fess dancetty between three mullets azure three bezants (Dimsdale); and on an escutcheon of pretence the arms of Tennyson-D’Eyncourt: Quarterly: 1st & 4th, Azure a fess dancetty between ten billets, four in chief and six in base three two and one, or (D’Eyncourt); 2nd & 3rd, Gules three leopards’ faces or jessant-de-lys overall a bend azure (Tennyson). Dependent from the shield is the ribbon of the Order of St John. The crest is: Above a mural crown argent a leopard’s face or all between two ostrich feathers argent. And the motto: Post Nubiles Phœbus (“After clouds, Sun”).
And on the right, we have the arms of Alfred Henry Tarleton. He was a naval man. In the 1880s he served on torpedo boats, a new concept for the Royal Navy at the time, and later on larger warships. In the 1890s Lieutenant Tarleton was Treasurer of the Deptford Fund, a charity to relieve the hardships of the poor in Deptford, a naval dockyard town on the Thames. Other charities in which he took a leading role included the Chelsea Hospital for Women, the Order of Mercy and the Order of St John, in which he had the remarkable rank of a “Knight of Grace of St John of Jerusalem”. He became an Equerry to HRH the Duchess of Albany. He became Sheriff of Middlesex for the year 1909-1910. In 1913, Tarleton attended the Guildhall’s opening, commanding the Middlesex Boy Scouts in the Guard of Honour.
His arms are blazoned: Quarterly, 1st & 4th, Gules a chevron erminois between three cinquefoils or (Tarleton); 2nd & 3rd, Argent on a fess dancetty between three mullets azure three bezants (Dimsdale); and on an escutcheon of pretence the arms of Tennyson-D’Eyncourt: Quarterly: 1st & 4th, Azure a fess dancetty between ten billets, four in chief and six in base three two and one, or (D’Eyncourt); 2nd & 3rd, Gules three leopards’ faces or jessant-de-lys overall a bend azure (Tennyson). Dependent from the shield is the ribbon of the Order of St John. The crest is: Above a mural crown argent a leopard’s face or all between two ostrich feathers argent. And the motto: Post Nubiles Phœbus (“After clouds, Sun”).
That seems to be all of the Sheriffs whose arms I "shot" in the Supreme Court of the UK building. Next time, the arms of another Duke found there.
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