Cookson Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Settle, Yorkshire, subsequently of Newcastle-on-Tyne, of Whitehill, and Neasham Hall, co. Durham, and Meldon Park, co. Northumberland). Per pale ar. and gu. two legs couped above the knee in armour counterchanged. Crest—A demi lion ramp. supporting a staff raguled ppr. Motto—Nil desperandum.

(Kent). Same Arms.

(Whitehill Park, co. Durham, exemplified to George Horner Reynard, Esq., and Augusta Sarah, his wife, upon their taking the additional name of Cookson, by royal licence, 30 Nov. 1864). 1st and 4th, per pale ar. and gu. a pale betw. two legs couped at the thigh in armour, all counterchanged, and for distinction a canton gu., for Cookson; 2nd and 3rd, ar. a chev. betw. two cross crosslets fitchee in chief and a wolf’s head erased in base az., for Reynard. Crests—1st, Cookson: A demi lion ppr. gutte de sang grasping in both paws a club also ppr. charged on the shoulder, for distinction, with a cross crosslet or; 2nd, Reynard: Upon a rock ppr. a wolf’s head erased ar. semee of cross crosslets fitchee az. Motto—Ne quid nimis. N.B.—The same arms for Cooksson (his wife) were assigned in the same patent for her, with the exception of tha canton.

(Fife-Cookson, Whitehlll, co. Durham; exemplified, 1879, to Lieut.-Col. John Cookson Fife-Cookson, of Whitehill Park, co. Durham, J.P., D.L., on his assuming by royal licence the additional surname of Cookson). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, per pale ar. and gu. a pale betw. two legs couped at the thigh in armour, all counterchanged, for Cookson; 2nd and 3rd, or, a lion ramp. gu. guttee d’or betw. three thistles leaved and slipped vert, for Fife. Crests —1st, Cookson: A demi lion ppr. guttee de sang, grasping in both paws a club, also ppr.; 2nd, Fife: Out of the battlements of a tower ppr. a demi lion, holding in the dexter paw a saltire ar. and resting the sinister paw on an escutcheon or, charged with a thistle as in the arms. Motto—Virtute et opera.