Armorial of the speakers of the House of Commons is displayed at the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster. Speakers customarily take a grant of arms while in office, if they are not armigerous already. Their shields of arms are painted on the interior walls of Speaker's House, and after their elevation to the peerage they are displayed on the windows along the peers' staircase in the House of Lords.
Prior to the Acts of Union 1707, John Smith had been Speaker of the House of Commons of England.
Arms | Name of Speaker (including peerage title, if any) and heraldic blazon |
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John Smith, Speaker of the House 1707–1708 Escutcheon:Quarterly: 1st & 4th: azure, two bars between three pheons or (for Smith) 2nd & 3rd: Argent, a mullet pierced sable (for Assheton) [1] [2] [3] | |
Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, Speaker of the House 1708–1710 Crest: An Eagle Sable, preying on a Partridge proper | |
Sir William Bromley, Speaker of the House 1710–1713 Escutcheon:Quarterly per fess indented Gules and Or an escutcheon Argent charged with a griffin segreant Vert | |
Sir Thomas Hanmer, Speaker of the House 1714–1715 Escutcheon:Argent two lions passant guardant azure, armed and langued gules [7] | |
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Speaker of the House 1715–1727 Arms:Sable a Lion passant guardant Or between three Esquires' Helmets Argent; | |
Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House 1727–1761 Escutcheon: Argent a fess Gules between six Cornish choughs Proper. | |
Sir John Cust, Speaker of the House 1761–1770 Crest: A Lion's Head erased Sable gorged with a Collar paly wavy of six Argent and Azure | |
Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, Speaker of the House 1770–1780 Crest: A Moor's Head affrontée couped at the shoulders wreathed round the temples with Laurel proper and around the neck a Torse Argent and Azure | |
Charles Wolfran Cornwall, Speaker of the House 1780–1789 Crest: A lion rampant Gules ducally crowned Or within a bordure engrailed sable bezanty. [16] | |
William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, Speaker of the House 1789 Escutcheon:Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Vert on a Cross Argent five Torteaux Gules (Grenville); 2nd, Or an Eagle displayed Sable (Leofric, Earl of Mercia); 3rd, Argent two Bars Sable each charged with three Martlets Or (Temple) | |
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Speaker of the House 1789–1801 Crest: A Cat-a-mountain sejant guardant Proper bezanty the dexter forepaw resting on an inescutcheon Azure charged with a Mace erect surmounted with a Regal Crown Or within a Bordure engrailed Argent; |
Arms | Name of Speaker (including peerage title, if any) and heraldic blazon |
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John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, Speaker of the House 1801–1802 Crest: 1st: two Hands couped at the wrist proper grasping a Sword erect piercing a Boar's Head erased Sable (Mitford); 2nd: a Demi Wolf Argent charged on the shoulder with a Fess dancetty Gules and holding between the paws a Lozenge Or (Freeman) | |
Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester, Speaker of the House 1802–1817 Escutcheon: Gules, on a chevron between three pears Or as many crosses raguly Azure within a tressure flory of the second. | |
Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, Speaker of the House 1817–1835 Escutcheon: Quarterly, 1st & 4th: Argent, a canton sable (Sutton) 2nd & 3rd: Or, two bars azure, a chief quarterly azure and gules, the 1st and 4th quarters charged with two fleurs-de-lis or, and the 2nd and 3rd a lion of England (Manners) | |
James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline, Speaker of the House 1835–1839 Escutcheon: Argent a Fess embattled Gules therefrom issuant in chief a Dexter Arm embowed in Armour proper garnished Or encircled by a Wreath of Laurel the hand supporting the French Standard in bend sinister also proper in base (for Abercromby) a Chevron indented Gules between three Boars' Heads erased Azure | |
Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley, Speaker of the House 1839–1857 Crest:Six Arrows interlaced saltirewise three and three proper within an Annulet Or. | |
Evelyn Denison, 1st Viscount Ossington, Speaker of the House 1857–1872 Escutcheon:Argent a bend Gules between a unicorn's head erased in chief and a cross crosslet fitchée in base Azure. | |
Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden, Speaker of the House 1872–1884 Crest:Out of a crown vallary Or a leopard's head Argent semée of escallops and gorged with a collar gemel Gules. | |
Arthur Peel, 1st Viscount Peel, Speaker of the House 1884–1895 Escutcheon:Argent three sheaves of three arrows Proper two and one banded Gules on a chief Azure a bee volant Or. | |
William Gully, 1st Viscount Selby, Speaker of the House 1895–1905 Crest:Between two wings erect Or an arm vested Sable cuffed Argent the hand grasping a sword erect Proper. |
Arms | Name of Speaker (including peerage title, if any) and heraldic blazon |
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James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, Speaker of the House 1905–1921 Crest: A dragon passant Argent | |
John Henry Whitley, Speaker of the House 1921–1928 Blazon not available [36] | |
Edward FitzRoy, Speaker of the House 1928–1943 Escutcheon: The Royal Arms of Charles II, viz. Quarterly: 1st and 4th, France and England quarterly; 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland; the whole debruised by a Baton sinister compony of six pieces Argent and Azure. [37] | |
Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside, Speaker of the House 1943–1951 Escutcheon:Gules a chevron between in chief two bears' paws erect erased and armed and in base four hands issuant conjoined in saltire Or on a chief engrailed also Or an eagle displayed Sable. | |
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Speaker of the House 1951–1959 Crest:A Viking galley with one mast and sail furled proper flying from the masthead a pennon Argent charged with a raven volant Sable. | |
William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, Speaker of the House 1951–1959 Crest:Issuant from waves of the Sea Azure crested Argent a Mount Vert thereon an embattled Wall Azure masoned Argent charged with a Portcullis Or and issuant therefrom a Cubit Arm naked proper the hand grasping a Dagger Azure hilted Or. | |
Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, Speaker of the House 1959–1965 Escutcheon:Argent on a fess Vert between three bugle-horns Sable stringed Or a representation of the Speaker's Mace in fess head to the dexter Or a bordure Vert. | |
Horace King, Baron Maybray-King, Speaker of the House 1965–1971 Escutcheon:Argent a cherub Proper within a chaplet of four roses, two in pale Argent and two in fess Gules, barbed seeded and leaved proper | |
Selwyn Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, Speaker of the House 1971–1976 Escutcheon:Per pale Azure and Or on a fess per pale Or and Gules between in chief two bees volant and in base a garb all counterchanged a dragon passant per pale Gules and Or. | |
George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy, Speaker of the House 1976–1983 Escutcheon:Or an open book proper bound Sable garnished Gules. On a chief of the last between two portcullises Or a pale per pale Argent and Or, charged with three chevrons gules. | |
Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, Speaker of the House 1983–1992 Crest: A Horse rampant Argent supporting a Mace erect Or | |
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, Speaker of the House 1992–2000 Escutcheon:Gules, a representation of the mace of the Speaker of the House of Commons palewise Or surmounted in base by a rose Argent barbed and seeded Proper over all on a fess Gold an owl guardant Proper between two millrinds Sable. [53] [54] [55] [47] |
Arms | Name of Speaker (including peerage title, if any) and heraldic blazon |
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Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Speaker of the House 2000–2009 Escutcheon:Per chevron Gules and Sable, on a chevron Argent between in chief a martin volant Or between dexter a locomotive wheel partially covered by a cowling and sinister a salmon hauriant with a signet ring in its mouth both Proper and in base a lymphad of the Third flagged Gules sail chequy Azure and Argent, a crescent Sable between an engineer's steel footrule and a chanter both Proper. | |
John Bercow, Speaker of the House 2009–2019 Escutcheon:Per pale Azure and Gules four roundels in bend Or between the rungs of a ladder bendwise throughout Argent all between two seaxes bendwise points upwards and cutting edges outwards Or. | |
Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the House 2019–present Escutcheon:Argent on a Fess conjoined to a Bordure Vert and between three Roses Gules barbed proper each charged with a Bee volant Or striped Sable winged Argent the House of Commons Mace fesswise Or |
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arms of Smith of Tedworth House.