Extinct viscountcy in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Viscount Hewart, of Bury in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1940 for Gordon Hewart, 1st Baron Hewart, on his retirement as Lord Chief Justice.[1] He had already been created Baron Hewart, of Bury in the County of Lancaster, in 1922, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[2] He was educated at Bury Grammar School. The titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Viscount, in 1964.
Viscounts Hewart (1940)
Coat of arms of Viscount Hewart
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- Crest
- In front of the trunk of a tree sprouting thereon an owl Proper three crosses patée fesswise Or.
- Escutcheon
- Argent on a fess Sable between two owls Proper in chief and in base a cross patée of the second a fasces Or.
- Supporters
- On either side an owl Proper charged with a fasces erect Or.
- Motto
- Nulla Retrorsum.[3]
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