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Heraldic achievement of Watson, Baron Manton: Arms:Argent, on a chevron azure between four martlets three in-chief and one in base sable a crescent between two roses of the field; Crest: A gryphon passant sable in front of an oak tree proper; Supporters: On either side a gryphon per fesse azure and argent charged on the shoulder with a rose also argent. (Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.739). The arms were adopted in 1922 on the elevation to the peerage of Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton (d.1922) of Compton Verney, Warwickshire, a soap manufacturer from Leeds, Yorkshire. The arms are a reworking of the arms of the unrelated family of Watson-Wentworth, Marquess of Rockingham, of Rockingham Castle in Northamptonshire and of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire (Argent, on a chevron engrailed azure between three martlets sable as many crescents or), with the addition of White Roses of York. The crest is a mixture of the oak tree from the arms of Watson of Saughton, Chief of Clan Watson, a Scottish family, to which he was also unrelated, and the crest of Wentworth, a griffin passant argent.