All black background (should be Sinister background black)

Whitmore, impaling, Ermine a tree-trunk in bend eradicated proper between three foxes’ heads gules (Houldsworth)

Motto: Incorrupta fides (Incorruptible faith)

For Violet Frances Elisabeth, daughter of Sir William Houldsworth, 1st Bt., who married 1900, as his first wife, Colonel Francis Henry Douglas Charlton Whitmore, and died 13 June 1927.

(Burke's Landed Gentry 1937 ed.)

(Hatchment painted by Sir Francis Whitmore)

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