Arms of Smith of Nottingham: Or, a chevron cotised sable between three demi-griffins couped of the last the two in chief respecting each other.[1] Granted in 1717[2] to Thomas Smith II (1682-1728), of Nottingham, of Broxtow, Nottinghamshire and of Gaddesby in Leicestershire, during his term as Sheriff of Leicestershire (1717–18), eldest son of Thomas Smith I who founded the bank in 1658. The arms were granted to him and to all male descendants of his father[3]
Colonel Peter Lockwood Smith-Dorrien (born 1907–1946)
Major Bromley David Smith-Dorrien (1911–2001)
Bibliography
Harry Tucker Easton: The History of a Banking House (Smith, Payne and Smiths), London 1903. (Link: https://archive.org/details/historyofbanking00east)
J. Leighton Boyce, Smith's the Bankers 1658–1958, 1958.
Leonard Jacks, Bramcote Hall - The Smiths: The Great houses of Nottinghamshire and the County Families, 1881 [2]
References
^Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.223, Smith/Carington, Baron Carrington; p.145, Smith, Baron Bicester, both descendants of the banker Abel Smith II (1717–1788)
^Leonard Jacks, Bramcote Hall - The Smiths: The Great houses of Nottinghamshire and the County Families, 1881 [1]
^Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.939
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l mBurke’s Landed Gentry, vol. 2 (1965), p. 565