Rutson Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Newby Wiske and Nunnington, co. York; a Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant of the North Riding, and High Sheriff co. York 1850. The family of Rutson was resident at Kendal, co. Westmoreland, during the 17th century, of which town Robert Rutson, son of William Rutson, served as Mayor 1752. His son, William Rutson, Esq., filled the same office 1773, d. 4 April, 1793, leaving- by Elizabeth Calton, his wife, a son and successor, William Calton Rutson, Esq., an eminent merchant of Liverpool, who m. 16 Dec. 1790, FRANCES, only child of Simon Weather, Esq., and Margaret Beckwith, his wife, and d. 26 March, 1817, leaving a son, the late William Rutson, Esq., of Newby Wiske and Nunnington, J. P. and D.L. co. York, High Sheriff of the co. 1850, who m. 17 Feb. 1825, Charlotte Mary, dau. of William Ewart, Esq., and d. 1867, leaving, with other issue, a son and heir, John Rutson, Esq., of Newby Wiske, J.P.). Per fess indented or and sa, three bulls’ heads couped counterchanged, the two in chief charged with a bezant, and that in base with a pellet. Crest—A griffin’s head couped per bend sa. and or, entwined by a serpent ppr. Motto—Spectremur agendo.