Here is an excerpt from Fox-Davies "Armorial Families", 1930 version. | |
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The Late Reverend Edward John Paul Wilkins-Leir, of Weston House, Weston, Bath, Clerk in Holy Orders, Bachelor of Arts of the University of Cambridge. Born 1835; died 1921, being the only son of the Reverend Edward Wilkins, Master of Arts, Justice of the Peace for the county of Norfolk, by his wife Mary, second daughter of Thomas Leir, Esquire, Justice of the Peace, Bachelor of Arts, of Jaggard's House, in the county of Wiltshire, and Weston, near Bath; assumed by Royal License the additional surname and arms of Leir, 1881. Armorial bearings--Quarterly, 1 and 4, azure, a fesse raguly between two unicorns' heads couped or, as many flaunches of the last (for Leir); 2 and 3, ermine, on a bend engrailed between two boars passant sable, a rose between two martlets argent (for Wilkins). Upon the escutcheon is placed a helmet befitting his degree, with a Mantling azure and or; and for his Crests, 1. on a wreath of the colours, a unicorn's head couped or, in front of a saltire raguly azure (for Leir); 2. on a wreath of the colours, upon a mount, a trunk of a tree eradicated fessewise proper, thereon a boar passant regardant sable, pierced through the shoulder with an arrow in bend sinister also proper (for Wilkins) |