Arms: Quarterly: 1st, Azure, a Garb Or (Grosvenor); 2nd, Argent, a Lion rampant Gules, between three Pheons ponts downwards Sable (Egerton); 3rd, Barry of six Argent and Azure, a Label of five points Gules (Grey de Wilton); 4th, Argent, a Mullet Sable, pierced Argent (Assheton). Crest: A Talbot statant Or. Supporters: On either side a Talbot reguardant Or, collared and charged on the shoulder with a Mullet Azure.
Creation date
26 June 1801
Created by
King George III
Peerage
Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder
Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton
Present holder
Francis Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton
Heir apparent
Julian Grosvenor, Viscount Grey de Wilton
Subsidiary titles
Viscount Grey de Wilton Baron Ebury
Status
Extant
Motto
VIRTUS NON STEMMA (Virtue, not ancestry)
Earl of Wilton, of Wilton Castle in the County of Herefordshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1801 for Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Grey de Wilton, along with the subsidiary title of Viscount Grey de Wilton, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Both titles were created with remainder to the second and all younger sons successively of his daughter Eleanor, wife of Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster.[1]
^"No. 15375". The London Gazette. 13 June 1801. p. 657.
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