Image: The gates of The Garden House, Ragley Hall park - geograph.org.uk - 3221194
Description: Arms on gate (1716-1732) of w:Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Baron Conway (1679-1731/2), who on 13 February 1715/16 married (as his third wife) Charlotte Shorter, a daughter of Sir John Shorter (born 1660), of Bybrook, in Kent, a wealthy merchant (the son of Sir John Shorter (1625–1688), Lord Mayor of London), by his wife Elizabeth Philipps (born c. 1664), a daughter of Sir Erasmus Philipps, 3rd Baronet. By Charlotte Shorter he was the father of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (1718–1794). Charlotte's sister Catherine Shorter was the wife of Sir Robert Walpole, the first prime minister of Great Britain. Arms: Conway quartering Seymour impaling: Sable, a lion rampant or ducally crowned argent between three battle axes of the last headed of the second (Shorter) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.924 "Shorter of London, granted 1687"). With Moor's Head crest above of Conway (Burke, p.222).
Title: The gates of The Garden House, Ragley Hall park - geograph.org.uk - 3221194
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Author: David P Howard
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