Drax Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Hackney, co. Middlesex; Sir James Drax, son of Sir James Drax, Knt., of London, son of William Drax, of Coventry, whose father was Vicar of Stoneley, co. Warwick, and came from co. York. Visit. Middlesex, 1665, and Le Neve’s Knights). Same Arms. Crest—A demi dragon or. Motto—Mort en droit.

(Sibsey, co. Lincoln, and of the Island of Barbadoes). Same Arms.

(Sawbridge-Erle-Drax, Charborough Park, co. Dorset, and Ellerton Abbey, co. York; Sarah Francis Drax, only dau. and heiress of Edward Drax, Esq., of Charborough, m. Richard Grosvenor, M.P. for West Looe, who assumed the additional name of Erle-Drax; their only dau. and eventual heiress, Jane Frances, m. 1828, John Samuel Wanley Sawbridge, Esq., who thereupon assumed the names and arms of Erle-Drax). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, same Arms, for Drax; 2nd, gu. three escallops ar. a bordure engr. of the last, for Erle; 3rd, or, two bars az. each charged with a barrulet dancettee ar. a chief indented of the second, for Sawbridge. Crests—1st: A demi wivern or, for Drax; 2nd: A demi lion ramp. az. holding in the paw a handsaw erect or, for Sawbridge. Motto—Mort en droit.

(co. York). Gu. five fusils in fesse and a label of three points az.