Dalton Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Wade-Dalton, Hawxwell Hall, co. York; Hamlet Coote Wade, Esq., of Hawxwell Hall, colonel in the airny, C.B., m. 1845, Mary, eldest dau. of Colonel Foster Lechmere Coore, of Scroton, same co., and granddau. of Francis Dalton, Esq., of Hawxwell Hall, and assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Dalton, in pursuance of the testamentary injunction of his wife’s aunt, Miss Anne Gale, of Hawxwell Hall). Quarterly, 1st and’ 4th, az. crusilly or, a lion ramp. guard. ar. a chief barry nebulee of four of the last and sa. and for distinction a canton erm., for Dalton; 2nd and 3rd, az. on a saltire indented betw. four escallops or, an escallop of the field, a canton of the second charged with a mullet of six points pierced of the first, for Wade. Crests—1st, Dalton: A dragon’s head couped vert, wings elevated or, gorged with a collar nehulce gold, and charged on the neck for distinction with a cross crosslet ar.; 2nd, Wade: A dexter arm embowed in armour ppr. garnished or, holding In the gauntlet a sword also ppr. pommel and hilt gold, and pendent from the gauntlet by a chain also gold, an oscutcheon az. charged with an escallop also or.