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Description: Plain rectangular shield with sloping edges; shield helm and crest of Sir Weetman Pearson Bt.: Per fess indented gules and or, between two suns in splendour in chief an escutcheon bearing a baronet's badge, and a demi-gryphon couped wings elevated and addorsed in base all counterchanged; crest: in front of a demi-gryphon as in the arms, holding between the claws a mill-stone proper, thereon a mill-rind sable, a sun in splendour.
Notes: Sir Weetman Pearson, later Viscount Cowdray, was created Baronet in 1894 and Baron in 1910, the fireback thus dates from the period 1894-1910. The motto - Do it with thy might - is from Ecclesiates 9: 10.
Copies of this fireback are known.
Inscription: DO IT WITH THY MIGHT
Arms: Sir Weetman Pearson Bt
- Decoration tags:
- complex individual (shape)
- none (edging)
- whole carved pattern
- armorial
- text
Manufactured: in the late-19th century in England.
Current location: Parham House, Parham, West Sussex, England.
- Attached to series:
- Personal armorial firebacks