Baron_Cozens-Hardy

Baron Cozens-Hardy

Baron Cozens-Hardy

Title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Baron Cozens-Hardy, of Letheringsett in the County of Norfolk, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 1 July 1914 for Sir Herbert Cozens-Hardy, Master of the Rolls from 1907 to 1918. He was succeeded by his eldest son, the second Baron. He represented Norfolk South in Parliament as a Liberal. He was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baron. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth Baron on 11 September 1975.

Herbert Cozens-Hardy, 1st Baron Cozens-Hardy.

Barons Cozens-Hardy (1914)

Coat of arms of Baron Cozens-Hardy
Crest
1st a dexter arm embowed holding in the hand an eagle’s head erased fesswise Proper (Hardy); 2nd a lion rampant Or vulned at the shoulder Proper and gorged with a ducal coronet Azure.
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st & 4th per chevron Argent and Or in chief two fire balls Sable fired Proper (Hardy); 2nd & 3rd Azure a lion rampant Or gorged with a ducal coronet of the field in chief two barrulets of the second (Cozens).
Supporters
Dexter an eagle Argent wings endorsed Gules holding in the beak a white rose slipped and leaved Proper, sinister a winged lion queue fourchée Argent wings endorsed Gules.

Motto = Fear One.

Badge
Upon a field Azure diaper of mascles and fleurs-de-lis Or an estoc (or thrusting sword) the blade enfiled with a baron’s coronet Proper the quillons terminating in fleurs-de-lis Or the hilt also Proper and the pomel Or thereon a rose Argent, with mottoes “Fear One” and “Je Sers”.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Burke's Peerage. 1949.

*Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. London: Dean & Son. p. 246.
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