The Scottish Heraldic Gazetteer

Earl of Galloway’s Monument, W panel

GAZETTEER NO.

WIG_0002.01

ARMS

Randolph STEWART, 9th Earl of GALLOWAY (1800-1873)

BLAZON

Or, a fesse chequy Azure and Argent, surmounted of a bend engrailed [should be Gules but has Sable ornament], within a double tressure flory counterflory Gules (Stewart); IMPALING: Quarterly, 1st & 4th Azure, three fleurs de lys Or, 2nd & 3rd, Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or, within a bordure compony Azure & Argent (Beaufort)

CREST

a pelican in its piety feeding its young, surmounted by an Earl’s coronet

SUPPORTERS

(dexter) a wild man holding a club; (sinister) a lion rampant

MOTTO

VIRESCIT VULNERE VIRTUS (Virtue, when wounded, flourishes)

DATE OF ARMS

1875

DATE OF BUILDING OR MEMORIAL

1875

CONDITION

Very Good

THREAT

Moderate

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