Arms: Quarterly 1st and 4th, Argent two Chevronels between three Ravens each having an Ermine Spot in its beak Sable and between the chevronels three Pellets; 2nd and 3rd, Gules three Towers Argent.
Creation date
30 September 1751
Created by
King George II
Peerage
Peerage of Ireland
First holder
Henry Flower, 2nd Baron Castle Durrow
Present holder
Michael Flower, 11th Viscount Ashbrook
Heir apparent
Hon. Rowland Flower
Remainder to
Heirs male of the first viscount's body, lawfully begotten
Subsidiary titles
Baron Castle Durrow
Seat(s)
Arley Hall
Former seat(s)
Castle Durrow Beaumont Lodge Shellingford Manor
Motto
Nens Conscia Recti ("A mind conscious of rectitude")
Viscount Ashbrook is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1751 for Henry Flower, 2nd Baron Castle Durrow. The title of Baron Castle Durrow, in the County of Kilkenny, had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1733 for his father William Flower. He was a Colonel in the Army and also represented County Kilkenny and Portarlington in the Irish House of Commons. He was praised by Jonathan Swift as "a gentleman of very great sense and wit". As of 2022[update], the titles are held by the eleventh Viscount, who succeeded his father in 1995.
The family seat is Arley Hall, near Arley, Cheshire.[1] Until 1922, the principal seat of the family was Castle Durrow, near Durrow, County Kilkenny; in England they also owned Beaumont Lodge, near Old Windsor, Berkshire,[2] and the manor of Shellingford in Shellingford, Berkshire (presently Oxfordshire).[3][4]
^Giles, Juliet (2013). "The Guardians of Arley Hall". The English Home. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
^The Court Magazine. Dobbs & Company. 1834. p. 116.
^The Berkshire Archæological Journal. Berkshire Archaeological Society. 1932. p. 56.
^Clark, Hugh; Wormull, Thomas (1779). The Peerage of the Nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland. G. Kearsly, at No. 46, in Fleet-Street.
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