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Crest - Coat of Arms - Motto www.scarboroughgenealogy.com Home Page --- Scarborough Family Line --- Family Structure --- Return to Sir Charles |
bestowed to Charles Scarborough, Sr. who was knighted August 11, 1669.  Image courtesy of Leland Johnson. Description courtesy of Earnest H. Scarborough, Jr. Click here for the: Coat of Arms Larger View
Note that the description for this Coat was actually credited to Edmond Scarborough
(1584 - 1634), Sir Charles' father. This seems somewhat unlikely as Edmond died in
1634 and the Coat was "apparently" granted in 1669 along with the knighthood.
However, it may also be possible that the Coat was granted to the father or earlier
generation and that the Coat has no connection to the act of knighthood.
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ARMS: Or, a chevron between three towers gules. CREST: From a mural crown gules a demi-lion or supporting a spear erect, on the point a Saracen's head, all proper, the head wreathed silver and azure. Description of Amorial Terms: Or means gold; gules, red; all proper means in natural colors. A chevron symbolizes protection of the defenseless. Castles are symboles of grandeur and solidity; often granted to those who have captured or held them for the King. The lion is emblematic of service to one's country, and deathless courage; The spear is an emblem of knightly service, typifying devotion to honor; The mural crown was first used by the Romans, and granted to those who first mounted the breach in the walls of a besieged town or fortress. The word comes from the Latin MURUS, meaning wall. In a coat of arms or a crest, it signifies "defender of a fortress, or a token of civic honor." The colors in a coat of arms represents the personal characteristics of the original bearer, and are granted only on merit. The meaning of the various colors is as follows: Gold signifies generosity and elevation of mind; and Red means courage and magnanimity. The Saracen's head refers to deeds of prowess in the Crusades.
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(From Registers of St. Paul’s School by Michael F. J. McDonnell of the Inner Temple,
Barrister-at-Law, sometime scholar of St. John’s College, Cambridge, 1909; London:
St. Paul’s School; printer: Chapman and Hall, Ltd.; distributor: Richard Clay & Sons,
Limited, Bread Street Hill, E.C., and Bungay, Suffolk) Sir Charles Scarborough, M.D.,
(baptized 29 December 1615, St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
County of Middlesex, England; died 26 February 1693/94, at his house in the Old Bailey,
buried at Cranford, Middlesex, England, monument there) was the elder brother of Colonel
Edmund Scarborough, II (baptized 2 October 1617, St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, Middlesex,
England; died 1671, at his home Occohannock House – now called Hedra Cottage - Accomack
County, Virginia). St. Martin-in-the-Fields was one of many parishes in the County of Middlesex.
It was so called because it was originally located in the fields between the City of Westminster
on the west and the City of London (the City) on the east. It was a part of the County of Middlesex,
which had numerous parishes and which surrounded (north, south, east and west) the City of London
and the City of Westminster. Today the City of Westminster (now one of the many boroughs of Greater
London) and the City of London and most of old Middlesex County are part of Greater London.
A small part of Middlesex on the north went to Hertfordshire and on the south to Surrey. The City of
Westminster and the City of London continue to exist as part of Greater London, but the County of
Middlesex no longer exists. St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church is today located in the Parish of
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, City of Westminster, Greater London. It faces onto Trafalgar Square from
the northeast. Cranford is now in a small postal district called Middlesex. It is just off Junction 3
of M4 (Mortorway 4 – a major highway). Burial site of Sir Charles Scarborough (Scarburgh): Heathrow Airport is about twenty-four miles west of the center of London. One-half mile northeast of Heathrow Airport is the Parish and Town of Cranford. The area is included in the present borough of Hounslow, a part of Greater London (formerly in the County of Middlesex of which it was a small part, described, supra., the post office still uses the old address of Middlesex and the locals refer to the area as Middlesex) St. Dunstan’s Church of Cranford Park, Cranford, Middlesex, England, houses the aforesaid memorial to Sir Charles Scarborough (Scarburgh is used in the memorial for the spelling; memorial was done by his widow Lady Scarburgh). The church is located in Cranford Park and referred to as St. Dunstan Cranford Park Middlesex. The address of Father Luke (installed by the Archdeacon of Middlesex – it is in the Anglican Diocese of London) is: The Rectory, 34 High Street, Cranford, Middlesex, TW5 9RG, England (Telephone: (020) 8897 8836; E-mail: rector.cranford@btinternet.com) For a photo of the memorial vide: http://www.saintdunstan.org.uk/section/10 |