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The entries in Burke are as follows.
Wedderburn, (Easter
Powrie, co. Forfar; heiress m. Scrymgeour of
Kirkton)
Argent
on a chevron between three roses Gules barbed Vert.
Crest; an eagle's head erased ppr.
Motto - "Non degener" (meaning "not degenerate").
Wedderburn (Blackness,
co. Linlithgow, bart, 1704, attainted 1746)
Argent, on a chevron between three roses Gules barbed Vert a crescent
of the first. Crest; an eagle's head erased ppr.
Motto;
"Aquila non captat
muscas" meaning "the eagle does not catch flies".
Wedderburn
(Ballindean,
co. Perth, bart, 1704)
Argent,
on a chevron between three roses Gules barbed Vert a crescent
of the first. Crest; an eagle's head erased ppr.
Motto; "Aquila non captat muscas" meaning "the eagle does not catch flies".
Wedderburn-Ogilvy
(Ruthven, Scotland)
Quarterly,
1st and 4th as the last; 2nd and 3rd Argent a lion passant quardant collared Or,
and
crowned with an imperial crown ppr. between two chessrooks in chief
Sable and a flaring cup in base of the last, all within a bordure
Azure. Crests; 1st, Wedderburn; an eagle's head erased ppr. 2nd
Ogilvy; A lion rampant guardant ppr.
Mottoes; "Aquila non captat muscas" for Wedderburn and "Nil desperandum" meaning "never despairing" for Ogilvy.
From the "General Armory Two" by
Humphrey-Smith there is;
Wedderburn
(Baron Loughborough 1780)
Argent on a chevron Gules between three roses of the last a cross Argent.
Crest; an eagle's head couped ppr.
Supporters; Two eagles ppr, gorged with collars Argent.
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Image scanned
from an engraved portrait of Alexander Wedderburn (1733-1805), Lord
Chancellor, and the first Baron Loughborough.
"Publfh'd 7 June 1785 by Ed. Hedges No.92, Cornhill London" |
Fairbairn's "Book of Crests" goes on to list
other crests and mottoes
but there is no indication as to which coats of arms, differenced or
otherwise, to which those crests belong. Among the details given there
are crests for;
an eagle's head erased ppr. Motto; "Non degener"
Charles David St.
Clair, Wedderburn - Bhavnagarpara, Kathiawar, India.
Same as above.
Rev., John Walter
Maurice Wedderburn, Stornoway, Scotland.
Same as above.
Wedderburn-Maxwell of
Middlebie, Dumfries, and Glenair Kirkudbright
On the dexter side a stag lodged in front of a holly tree ppr, for Maxwell; On the sinister side an eagle's head erased ppr., for Wedderburn.
Mottoes; "Reviresco" meaning "I flourish again" and "Non degender".
1st
A lion's gamb erect holding a scymitar
all ppr, for Scrymgeour. 2nd an eagle's head erased ppr for Wedderburn.
Motto; "Aquila non captat muscas" meaning "the eagle does not
catch
flies".
same crest as No 2 above.
Arthur Augustus
Wedderburn-Webster, of Jamaica
same crest and motto.
Wedderburn-Webster of
Clapham, Surrey
Same crest
Motto; "In Deo spero" meaning "I hope in God" and "Non degener".
Colvile-Wedderburn of
Ochiltree
a talbot's head ppr.
Motto;
"Ad
finem fidelis" meaning "Faithful to the end".
In addition
Argent, on a chevron between three roses Gules barbed Vert, a tortoise
Or, a bordure of the second was granted to George MacLagan
Wedderburn
of Pearsie on 10th September 1942.
Argent, on a chevron between three roses Gules barbed Vert, a tortoise
Or, a bordure of the second charged with three representations of the
King's Signet for Scotland, was granted to Sir Ernest
MacLagan-
Wedderburn on 23rd September 1942.
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