File:Birkhead (of Richmond House, Twickenham) arms.svg
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Arms of Birkhead of Richmond House, Twickenham, Surrey: Argent, on a chevron azure between three crosses patée fitchée sable a crescent between two escallops or (Birkhead/Birket) (sometimes shown as roses not escallops) (Sir John Shorter (c.1625-1688), Lord Mayor of London, married Isabel Birkhead/Birket, a sister of Edward Birkhead (d.1662) of Richmond House, Twickenham, Serjeant-at-Arms in the House of Commons in 1648, a Quaker Magistrate and the principal landowner in the parish of Twickenham. Quartered by Walpole. See pedigree of Walpole in A Pedigree of Walpole to Explain the Portraits and Coats of Arms at Strawberry Hill, Anno 1776 with a drawing of these arms labelled "Birkhead" [1]. Sometimes shown with chevron azure). The land on which Strawberry Hill House was built by Horace Walpole had earlier been acquired by Edward Birkhead. Birkhead familyThe Twickenham Museum: The history centre for Twickenham, Whitton, Teddington and the Hamptons[2], states:
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