Wilkinson baronets

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The Wilkinson Baronetcy, of Brook in Witley in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 December 1941 for George Wilkinson, Lord Mayor of London from 1940 to 1941.

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Wilkinson baronets, of Brook (1941)

There is no heir to the baronetcy.

Arms

Coat of arms of Wilkinson baronets
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Crest
Issuant from a chaplet of roses Argent barbed and seeded Proper a demi-unicorn Or.
Escutcheon
Quarterly Argent and Vair Sable and Or a cross Gules in the 1st & 4th quarters a lion rampant of the fourth on a chief also of the fourth three mullets of the third.
Motto
Honorem Custode [1]

Notes

  1. Burke's Peerage. 1959.

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