File:Arms Sir Thomas Fowke (died 1786) of Lowesby Hall, Leicestershire.xcf

Low-relief plaster panel, circa 1772-86, showing an heraldic shield surrounded by an antique trophy of arms displaying the coat of arms of Sir Thomas Fowke (died 1786) of Lowesby Hall in Leicestershire, knighted in 1779, Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant, Groom of the Bedchamber to the Duke of Cumberland, brother of King George III. On 12th August 1772 he married Anne Wollaston one of the two sisters and co-heiresses of Sir Isaac Lawrence Wollaston, 3rd Baronet (died 1756) of Lowesby Hall. His son was Sir Frederick Gustavus Fowke, 1st Baronet (1782–1856) of Lowesby Hall. Latin motto: Arma Tuentur Pacem, "arms safeguard peace". Provenance unknown, possibly originally at Lowesby Hall.

Heraldry

Quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Vert, a fleur-de-lys argent (Fowke)
• 2&3: Sable, a fess wavy between six dolphins in fess or, 3 and 3 (Newman of Gunston, Staffordshire) (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.II, London, 1874, Azure, a fess wavy between six dolphins argent "Newman of Staffordshire") (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.730 "Newman of Gunston, Staffordshire"). Heiress of the Fowke family, which appears to have inherited Gunston from Newman. Roger Fowke (by 1528-75/76), of Gunston, Staffs, was MP for Newcastle-Under-Lyme in 1553. He was of a cadet line of Fowke of Brewood, Staffordshire (FOWKE (FOWKES), Roger (by 1528-75/76), of Gunston, Staffs., published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558, ed. S.T. Bindoff, 1982 [1]). Peerage.com: "John Fowke is the son of William Fowke. He married Agnes Newman, daughter of John Newman". Agnes Newman's son was Roger Fowke of Gunston who married Cassandra Humfreston. (stirnet).

with inescutcheon of pretence: Quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Argent, three mullets pierced sable (Wollaston) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1128 "Wollaston of Shenton, Leicestershire", a branch of which was "Wollaston of Lowesby, Leicestershire, baronets")
• 2: Argent, a cross raguly gules on a chief of the last a lion passant gardant or (Lawrence of St Ives, Huntingdon, Lawrence Baronets, extinct 1756 (The Lawrence Baronetcy of St Ives, Huntingdonshire, later the Woollaston Baronetcy, of Loseby (Lowesby Hall) in the County of Leicester, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 17 January 1748. The 1st Baronet bore the same arms as the Lawrence Baronets of Iver in the County of Buckingham, created in 1628; (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.589)
• 3: Paly of eight azure and or on a chief gules three talbot's heads erased of the second Marsh/Marche of Haddenham, Cambridgeshire: Paly of six or and azure, on a chief gules three talbot's heads erased or (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.658). Heraldic Visitation of Cambridgeshire, 1684: descended from Marche of the Isle of Ely; the eventual heiress Sarah Rowlands Marche (d.1753), last surviving child of Ralph Marche, Esq., of Haddenham, married firstly Pell Gatward, Esq., dsp 1741; secondly Sir Isaac Wollaston, 2nd Baronet (died 1750) of Lowesby Hall in Leicestershire, who in 1749 by special remainder succeeded his grandmother's brother Sir Edward Lawrence, 1st Baronet (c. 1674 – 1749) in the Lawrence baronetcy, which title changed thenceforth to the Wollaston baronetcy. His wife died in 1753 leaving as heir an infant son Sir Isaac Lawrence Wollaston, 3rd Baronet. (Source: Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.658). See also arms of "Marsh of Huntingdonshire" (identical); "Marsh of Cambridgeshire" (variant) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.661)