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Viscount Hewart

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Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart.

Viscount Hewart, of Bury in the County Palatine of Lancaster, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1940 for Gordon Hewart, 1st Baron Hewart, on his retirement as Lord Chief Justice.[1] He had already been created Baron Hewart, of Bury in the County of Lancaster, in 1922, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[2] He was educated at Bury Grammar School. The titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Viscount, in 1964.

Viscounts Hewart (1940)

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Coat of arms of Viscount Hewart
Crest
In front of the trunk of a tree sprouting thereon an owl Proper three crosses patée fesswise Or.
Escutcheon
Argent on a fess Sable between two owls Proper in chief and in base a cross patée of the second a fasces Or.
Supporters
On either side an owl Proper charged with a fasces erect Or.
Motto
Nulla Retrorsum.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "No. 34984". The London Gazette. 1 November 1940. p. 6348.
  2. ^ "No. 32653". The London Gazette. 28 March 1922. pp. 2507–2508.
  3. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.