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Baron Chatfield

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Baron Chatfield Coat of Arms
Creation date11 June 1937
Created byGeorge VI
PeeragePeerage of the United Kingdom
First holderErnle Chatfield, 1st Baron
Last holderErnle David Lewis Chatfield, 2nd Baron
StatusExtinct
Extinction date30 September 2007
MottoPro aris et focis, For hearth and home
ArmsOr a griffin segreant Sable on a chief Purpure an anchor between escallops of the first.
CrestAn heraldic antelope’s head erased Argent gorged with a naval crown Or.
SupportersOn the dexter side an Admiralty Messenger holding in the exterior hand his staff and on the sinister side a gunner of the Royal Navy resting the exterior hand on a shell all Proper.
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Baron Chatfield, of Ditchling in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1937 for the naval commander Sir Ernle Chatfield. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baron, in 2007 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Barons Chatfield (1937)

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Lord Chatfield in 1938

Notes

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  1. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

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