Earl of Orkney
Arms of the the 8th Earl of Orkney:
Quarterly:
1st and 4th grandquarters, Argent on a Saltire Gules a Lymphad sails
furled Or a Chief Ermine (Fitz-Maurice); 2nd grandquarter,
quarterly: 1st and 4th, Gules three Cinquefoils Ermine (Hamilton);
2nd, Argent a Lymphad sails furled Sable (Arran); 3rd, Argent a
Heart Gules imperially crowned Or on a Chief Azure three Mullets of
the first (Douglas); over all at the fess point an Escallop Or for
difference (for Lord George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney); 3rd
grandquarter, quarterly: 1st and 4th, Gules three Lions passant
guardant per pale Or and Argent (O'Brien); 2nd, Argent three Piles
meeting in the point issuing from the chief Gules; 3rd, Argent a
Pheon Azure
Crests:
1st: A Sagittarius passant proper (FitzMaurice);
2nd: An Ancient Boat Or flagged Azure and issuant therefrom an Oak
Tree fructed and penetrated by a Framesaw proper the Frame Or
(Hamilton)
Supporters:
On the dexter side an Antelope
Azure armed and ducally gorged with Chain reflexed across the back
Or, and on the sinister a Stag proper attired and ducally gorged
with a Chain reflexed over the back also Or, each supporter charged
on the shoulder with a Cinquefoil Ermine
Motto:
Through Courage
Note:
Oliver Peter [St John], 9th Earl of
Orkney, born 27 Feb 1938, has not matriculated his arms.
- George Hamilton, 1st
Earl of Orkney, Viscount of Kirkwall and Lord Dechmont
(1666–1737), fifth son of William Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of
Hamilton and 1st Earl of Selkirk and his wife Anne Hamilton, 3rd
Duchess of Hamilton.
- Anne O'Brien, 2nd Countess of Orkney (d. 1756), daughter of
1st Earl married William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin.
- Mary O'Brien, 3rd Countess of Orkney (c. 1721–1791),
daughter of 2nd Countess married Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess
of Thomond
- Mary FitzMaurice, 4th Countess of Orkney (1755–1831),
daughter of 3rd Countess married the Hon. Thomas Fitzmaurice,
second son of John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne. See House of
Petty-Fitzmaurice
- Thomas John Hamilton FitzMaurice, 5th Earl of Orkney
(1803–1877)
- George William Hamilton FitzMaurice, 6th Earl of Orkney
(1827–1889)
- Edmond Walter FitzMaurice, 7th Earl of Orkney (1867–1951)
- Cecil O'Bryen FitzMaurice, 8th Earl of Orkney (1919–1998)
- Oliver Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney (b. 1938), son of
Frederick Oliver St John, son of Isabella Annie Fitzmaurice,
daughter of the Hon. James Terence Fitzmaurice, fifth son of the
fifth Earl of Orkney.
- Oliver Peter [St John], 9th Earl of Orkney, born 27 Feb 1938
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William St. Clair- Earl of
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• Earl's Palace, Orkney
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