Colston Coat of Arms / Family Crest

Colston

British Isles

Colston

British Isles

Colston

British Isles

Colston

British Isles

Colston

British Isles

Colston

British Isles

Colston

British Isles

Colston

British Isles

Colston

British Isles

Blazon description

(Essex). Az. two barbels, haurient, respecting each other ar. Crest—A spear’s head in pale, enfiled with a savage’s head, couped, ppr.

(Essex). Ar. two dolphins, haurient, sa.

(Essex and London. Visit. London, 1568, Gabriel Colston, of London, citizen and grocer, was second son of Robert Colston, Esq., of Corby, co. Lincoln, by Katherine, his wife, dau. and coheir of John Malorge, Esq., of Walton, co. Leicester). Ar. two dolphins, haurient, respecting each other sa. chained together by their necks, the chain pendent or, quartering, or, a lion ramp. double queued gu., for Malorge. Crest—A dolphin, embowed, sa.

The same, within a bordure engr. of the last.

Ar. two barbels, respecting each other, sa.

Ar. two barbels, haurient, endorsed, within a bordure sa.

Ar. three dolphins haurient, within a bordure sa.

Gu. two barbels, respecting each other, or.

(originally of Colston Hall, co. Lincoln, subsequently of Filkins Hall, co. Oxford, and of Roundway Park, co. Wilts). Ar. betw. two dolphins haurient, respecting each other, an anchor, all ppr. Crest—A dolphin embowed ppr. Motto—Go and do thou likewise. These words were adopted in memory of the philanthropic Edward Colston, born in 1636, the eminent merchant of Bristol, who during his lifetime established schools and hospitals, and left, at his decease in 1722, more than 300,000 to different churches and charities in Bristol, London, and elsewhere, fully recorded on his monument in All Saints’ Church, in his native city of Bristol.

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