Sherburne Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Stonyhurst, co. Lancaster, bart., extinct 1717; descended from Sir Robert Sherburne, Senesehal of Wiswall and Blackburn, co. Lancaster, temp. Edward I.: Sir Nicholas Sherburne, Bart., of Stonyhurst, was so created 1685, left an only surviving dau.,Maria Winifred Francisca Sherburne, m. Thomas, eighth Duke of Norfolk). Ar. a lion ramp. guard. vert.

(Robert Sherburne, Bishop of St. Davids, 1505-8, and of Chichester, 1508-36; arms in the hall of New College, Oxford. Visit. Oxon, 1574). Quarterly, 1st, ar. a pelican vulning herself vert, a border indented compony of the second and first; 2nd and 3rd, ar. a lion ramp. vert; 4th, ar. an eagle displ. vert.

(exemplified, 1853, to John Sherburne Tench, Esq., on his taking the name and arms of Sherburne, by royal licence, under the will of John Shebburne, of Hereford). Per bend or and vert a lion ramp, a border embattled counterchanged. Crest—A unicorn’s head erased lozengy or and vert, armed and maned gold. Motto—Nec temere nec timide.