The

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Bewick, alternately found as Buick, Buik, Bewicke, Bewike and Buicke, is ultimately of

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origin, but later made its way to

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and came to prominence in the person of

David Dunbar Buick David Dunbar Buick (September 17, 1854 – March 5, 1929) was a Scottish-born American Detroit-based inventor, best known for founding the Buick Motor Company. He headed this company and its predecessor from 1899–1906, thereby helping to ...

, the Angus-born,

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founder of the

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Origins

Certain surnames, with Bewick being an example of this, are derived from the name of a small community. It is believed smaller towns and villages were taken as surnames by those families migrating from these rural communities to the larger cities, and the need for new arrivals to choose a defining surname. There are two historic villages in

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by the name Bewick, one is found in

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and the other is found in

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. The Bewick of Northumberland is today a

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divided into the

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of New Bewick and the village of

Old Bewick Old Bewick is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bewick, in the county of Northumberland, England, notable for its Bronze Age cairn, Iron Age hill fort, and rock art (petroglyphs) exhibiting the characteristic cup and ring ...

Coat of arms

It is a common misconception that there is one

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associated to everyone of a common surname, when, in fact, a coat of arms is property passed through direct lineage. This means that there are numerous families of Buick, perhaps under various spellings, that are related, but because they are not the direct descendants of a Buick that owned an armorial device do not have rights or claims to any arms themselves. The coat of arms of the Bewickes of

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, which are displayed on several plaques by various family members in the Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas, show a white shield with five red diamond-shaped lozenges, which have on each a white star, that run horizontal between three black bear's heads muzzled white and torn jaggedly at the neck, with two atop and one beneath the row of lozenges. The

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is a white goat's head jaggedly torn off at the neck that wears a collar of a

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. In heraldic terms, the coat of arms could be described as, ''Argent five lozenges conjoined in fess gules each charged with a mullet of the field between three

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s' heads erased

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muzzled

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'', and the crest as, ''A goat's head erased argent and gorged with a

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''. The

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used on the Buick automobile is said to be derived from the ancient Buik coat of arms, as located in an 1851 edition of ''Burke's General Armory'' during the 1930s by

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researcher Ralph Pew. The coat of arms was described as "a red shield with a checkered silver and azure (blue) diagonal line running from the upper left corner to lower right, an antlered deer head with a jagged neckline in the upper right corner of the shield and a gold cross in the lower left corner. The cross had a hole in the center with the red of the shield showing through." A search today of ''Burke's General Armory'' shows no such entry for Buik, nor for Buick, so if the article existed in an 1851 edition, the editors have subsequently removed it.

Notable persons

Bewick Bridge Bewick Bridge (1767, Linton, Cambridgeshire – 15 May 1833, Cherry Hinton) was an English vicar and mathematical author. In 1786, he was admitted as a sizar to study mathematics Peterhouse, Cambridge University, where he graduated as senior wrang ...

(1767–1833), English vicar and mathematical author *

Calverley Bewicke Calverley Bewicke (1755–1815) was a commander of the Durham, England, Durham Militia and an Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), MP for Winchelsea (UK Parliament constituency), Winchelsea from 1806 to 1816. Life He was born on 26 June 175 ...

(1755–1815), Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom *

Darren Bewick Darren Bewick (born 21 August 1967) is a former Australian rules footballer who won two premierships with the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Bewick's game breaking pace & goal sense inside the attacking 50 was ...

(born 1967), Australian rules footballer *

David Buick (politician) David Buick (29 April 1848 – 18 November 1918) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform Party. A New Zealand-born sheep breeder, he represented farming interests in Parliament. He owned racing horses and won vario ...

(1854–1929), New Zealand politician *

(1848–1918), inventor of the overhead valve engine and founder of the Buick Motor Company * Glen Buick (born 1937), Canadian diplomat *

Pauline Bewick Pauline Bewick (4 September 1935 – 28 July 2022) was an English-born Irish artist. Bewick was born in Northumberland, England on 4 September 1935, and with her mother Alice ('Harry') and sister Hazel, moved many times between England and Ire ...

(born 1935), Irish artist *

Rohan Bewick Rohan Bewick is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League (AFL). Bewick was recruited by the Lions from West Perth in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) a par ...

(born 1989), Australian rules footballer *

Thomas Bewick Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 17538 November 1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating ch ...

(1753–1828), English wood engraver and ornithologist * William Bewick (1795–1866), English portrait painter *

William Buick William Buick (born 22 July 1988) is a Norwegian-British flat jockey. He shared the champion apprentice jockey title in 2008 with David Probert and won the Lester Award for Apprentice Jockey of the Year in 2007 and 2008. From 2010 to 2014 he w ...

(born 1988), British jockey *

David Buik David Barlow Buik (born 21 March 1944) is a businessman and financial pundit for the BBC and other British, American and Australian television channels and radio stations. Early life Buik was born in Montreal and moved to the UK in 1949. He was ...

(born 1944), British financier and financial reporter *

William Christie Buik William Christie Buik (13 May 1824 – 6 February 1903), commonly referred to as W. C. Buik, was Mayor of Adelaide 1878–1879. Early years Buik was born on 13 May 1824 in Dundee, Scotland a son of Andrew Buik and Elizabeth (or Elspeth) Buik n� ...

(1824–1903), politician and Mayor of Adelaide, South Australia

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References

* Black, George F. ''The Surnames of Scotland''. * Reaney, P.H. ''A Dictionary of British Surnames''. * ''Burke's General Armory''. Surnames Scottish families Angus, Scotland

Origins

Coat of arms

Notable persons

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