ATHERTON (Lancashire).

ATHERTON (Lancashire). Has no armorial bearings. Those attributed to it are the arms of the family of Powys, namely, or, a lion's gamb erased in bend dexter between two cross crosslets fitchee gules ; and upon an escutcheon of pretence the arms of the family of Atherton of Atherton, namely, gules, three sparrow-hawks argent, beaked, belled, and jessed or. Crests — i, A lion's gamb erased and erect gules, holding a sceptre in bend sinister, headed with a fleurde-lis or (for Powys). 2, A swan azure, ducally gorged and lined, or. The Right Hon. Thomas Powys, 2nd Baron Lilford, married, December 5, 1797, Henrietta Maria, eldest daughter and coheir of Robert Atherton, Esquire, of Atherton Hall, i^i the county of Cumberland.

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