Seton-Steuart baronets

The Steuart, later Seton-Steuart Baronetcy, of Allanton in the County of Lanark, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 May 1815 for Henry Steuart with special remainder to his son-in-law Reginald Macdonald. The second Baronet assumed the additional surname of Seton. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baronet in 1930.

Steuart, later Seton-Steuart baronets, of Allanton (1815)

The grave of Sir Alan Henry Seton-Steuart, St Ninian's Churchyard, Stirling
Coat of arms of Seton-Steuart of Allanton
Crest
Out of an earl’s coronet a dexter hand grasping a thistle all Proper.
Escutcheon
Or, a fesse cheeky Azure and Argent, surmounted of a bend Gules, charged with three buckles of the Field ; on a sinister canton of the Fourth a lion passant-guardant Or pierced with a dart Proper, and in base a broken spear surmounted of a helmet both Proper.
Supporters
Two lions rampant-guardant both Proper, armed and langued Gules, collared of the Last, charged with three buckles Or.
Motto
Virtutis in rello praemium (The reward of valour in war); Over the crest: Juvant aspera fortes (Difficulties delight the brave)


References

  1. ↑ "No. 16969". The London Gazette. 27 December 1814. p. 2535.
  2. 1 2 3 Foster, Joseph (1883). The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire. Westminster: Nichols and Sons. p. 935.
  3. ↑ "Steuart, Sir Alan Henry Seton-". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ↑ "Steuart, Sir Douglas Archibald Seton-". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ↑ Debrett's baronetage (1921).