Lord Heathfield, Baron Heathfield of

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, was a title in the

Peerage of Great Britain The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain between the Acts of Union 1707 and the Acts of Union 1800. It replaced the Peerage of England and the Peerage of Scotland, but was itself r ...

. It was created on 6 July 1787 for General Sir George Augustus Eliott in recognition of his defence of Gibraltar during the Franco-Spanish Siege of 1779 to 1783. He was the tenth but eighth surviving son of Sir Gilbert Eliott, 3rd Baronet, of Stobs (see

Eliott baronets The Eliott Baronetcy, of Stobs in the County of Roxburgh, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 3 December 1666 for Gilbert Eliott. The second baronet was a member of the pre-union Parliament of Scotland. The third Bar ...

). The title became extinct on the death of his only son, the childless second Baron, in 1813.

Barons Heathfield (1787)

* George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield (1717–1790) *

Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield General Francis Augustus Eliott, 2nd Baron Heathfield (31 December 1750 – 26 January 1813) was a senior British Army officer. Military career Heathfield was a soldier who served as lieutenant-colonel of the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons. He large ...

(1750–1813)

Coat of arms

*Arms: ''

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, on a bend or a baton

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on a chief of the last the fortress of

winged with

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s between two pillars argent masoned

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, the gate of the castle of the last charged with a key of the second and below the same the words "Plus Ultra"'' ("more beyond").Excepting tinctures of castle, per Genealogy of the Eliot Family, originally compiled by William Horace Eliot, revised and enlarged by William Smith Porter, Newhaven, Connecticut, 185

These are the arms of the Eliott Baronets of Stobs, (Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage, 1968, p.279) with augmentation for George Augustus Eliott, the 1st Baron Heathfield and youngest son of the 3rd Baronet *Crest: A Dexter and sinister, dexter arm holding a cutlass proper, the arm charged with a key. *Supporters: Dexter, a ram;

sinister Sinister commonly refers to: * Evil * Ominous Sinister may also refer to: Left side * Sinister, Latin for the direction " left" * Sinister, in heraldry, is the bearer's true left side (viewers' right side) of an escutcheon or coat of arms; see ...

, a goat; each wreathed with flowers round the neck. *Motto: Fortiter et recte ("boldly and rightly")

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Heathfield Extinct baronies in the Peerage of Great Britain History of Gibraltar Noble titles created in 1787