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Berwick; of Castlelaw, in the County of Mid-Lothian; of Belton, in the County
of Suffolk; and of Caister, in the County of Norfolk, esquire. One of His
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Argyle and Suffolk, LL. D.,
and member of the Society for Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Com-
merce, whose lady was Mary, daughter and heiress of Thomas Milles, of
Billockby-hall, esquire, in the County of Norfolk, and who was third son of
Capt. George Riddell, representative of the family of Kinglass, and Christian
daughter of Andrew Patterson, of Kirktown, esquire, which George was eldest
son of George Riddell, of Kinglass, esquire, and Jean, eldest daughter of Capt.
John Taillyeour, which last George, who succeeded his elder brother James
Riddell, of Kinglass, who died without issue, was second son of James Riddell,
of Kinglass, Commissary General to the Parliament's army in the north in
the reign of King Charles I, and Elizabeth, daughter of George Foulis, of
Ravelston, esquire, which last James was only son of James Riddell, the only
son of Robert Riddell, second son of Walter Riddell, of Riddell, esquire, chief
of that name in this kingdom, the thirteenth in descent from Geoffrey Riddell,
who obtained from King David I, these lands in the County of Roxburgh,
erected on his account into the Barony of Riddell, which Geoffrey was
grandson of the Sieur Riddell, who was descended from the House of Anjou,
who was one of the noblemen that came from Normandy with William the
Conqueror, and had a command in his army at the Battle of Hastings, in the
year 1066: Bears quarterly, first and fourth argent, on a chevron invecked
gules between three ears of rye slipped and bladed proper, a cross Moline of
the field for Riddell; second and third or, a lion passant between three billets
sable for Milles. Crest, a demi-greyhound argent. Motto: " Right to Share,"
and below the shield, Utile et Dulce. Supporters: On the dexter, a lady, the
emblem of agriculture, holding in her right hand the Zodiac, together with
three stalks of corn, and in her left, an imperial crown proper; her upper gar-
ment vert, and the under one or. On the sinister, the emblem of Honour,
wreathed about the head with laurel, crested with broom, holding a spear in
his dexter hand, and a shield in his sinister, whereon are represented two tem-
ples proper, vested above a white garment with a robe azure, with a chain
around his neck, and bracelets round his wrists or. Matriculated 7th February,
1775.
SIR JAMES-MILLES RIDDELL, of Ardnamurchan and Sunart, in the County of
Argyle, Bart., eldest son and heir of Thomas-Milles Riddell, Esq., and Mrs.
Margaret Campbell his spouse, which Thomas-Milles was only son of the late
Sir James Riddell, also of Ardnamurchan, etc., Bart., by his spouse Mary, only
daughter and heiress of Thomas Milles, of Billockby-hall in the County of
Norfolk, esquire: Bears quarterly, first on three piles in point gules, sur-
mounted by a bend azure; second quarter counter-quartered, first lozengy or.
and gules; second gules. three lions rampant or; third gules. two pales vair a
chief or; fourth barry of six or, and sable in chief. a label of six points of the
last. Third grand quarter counter-quartered. first azure, a wolf's head erazed
argent; second and third argent. three barry gules; fourth barry wavy of six,
or, and gules. Fourth grand quarter or. a lion passant. between three billets
sable, the badge of a British baronet being placed in the heart-point. Above the
shield is placed a helmet befitting his degree with a mantling, gules doubled
argent, and on a wreath of his liveries is set for crest a hand issuing out a
coronet of an earl of France, holding baton all proper, over which upon an
exvol is the motto "
'de Apulia," and beneath the shield upon a compartment
