Darwin Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Trulston Grange, co. Derby). Same Arms. Crest—A demi griffin vert, holding betw. the claws an escallop or.

(Charles Robert Darwin, Esq., of Down, co. Kent, and Reginald Darwin, Esq., of Fern, co. Derby). Same Arms and Crest. Motto—Cave et aude.

(Elston Hall, co. Notts). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, erm. a leopard’s face, jessant-de-lys, betw. two escallops all within two bendlets gu. in chief a cross patee of the last, for Darwin; 2nd and 3rd, per pale ar. and az. on a bend nebulee a lion pass. guard. betw. two acorns slipped, all counterchanged for Rhodes. Crests—1st, Darwin: A demi griffin sa. semee of mascles or, charged on the shoulder with a cross patee gold, resting the sinister claw on a shield ar. thereon a leopard’s face jessant-de-lys gu.; 2nd, Rhodes: A cubit arm erect vested bendy of six, ar. and az. cuffed gu. the hand holding in saltire an oak branch and vine branch, both fructed ppr.

Kent – D’argent à la bande de gueules coticée de sinople et ch de trois coquilles d’or posées dans le sens de la bande Cimier un griffon issant de sinople tenant de sa patte dextre une coquille d’or Devise CAVE ET AUDE (Armes du naturaliste Charles Robert D)