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A System of Heraldry - Clan Strachan Society

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OF CELESTIAL FIGURES,<br />

There are several other ancient families who carry crescents for their armorial<br />

figures, distinguishing themselves by the different tinctures <strong>of</strong> their crescents and<br />

field <strong>of</strong> arms, as those <strong>of</strong> the surname <strong>of</strong> OLIPHANT, who carry gules, three crescents,<br />

two and one argent. As for the antiquity <strong>of</strong> the family and surname, there was<br />

an eminent baron <strong>of</strong> the name who accompanied King David I. to the siege <strong>of</strong><br />

Winchester in England, in the year 1142, named David de Olipbard, as h: Sir<br />

James Dalrymple's Collections, p. 147, and the same man, or another <strong>of</strong> that name,<br />

is to be found frequently a witness in that King's charters ; and particularly, (says<br />

Mr Crawfurd in his Peerage) in that to the Priory <strong>of</strong> Coldingham, whereto his<br />

seal is appended, which has thereupon, viz. three crescents, which clearly proves<br />

him to be the ancestor <strong>of</strong> the noble family <strong>of</strong> Oliphant, who still bear the same<br />

figures in their ensigns-armorial.<br />

David de Olipbard was Justiciarius Laodonice, for so he is designed, being a witness<br />

in a grant by King William to the priory <strong>of</strong> St Andrews, and his son Walter<br />

de Olipbard,<br />

in the same <strong>of</strong>fice, is designed Justiciarius Laodoniae, in the grant <strong>of</strong><br />

King Alexander III. to the canons <strong>of</strong> St Andrews.<br />

Sir WILLIAM OLIPHANT is one <strong>of</strong> the barons mentioned in the letter from the<br />

estates <strong>of</strong> Scotland to the Pope in the year 1320. Another, or the same Sir William<br />

is Oliphant witness in a charter <strong>of</strong> King Robert the Bruce, who married a<br />

daughter <strong>of</strong> Sir Robert Erskine <strong>of</strong> that Ilk ; and the fifth, in a lineal descent from<br />

him, was Sir Laurence Oliphant, who was created a Lord <strong>of</strong> Parliament, by the<br />

title <strong>of</strong> Lord Oliphant, 1467. He married Isabel, a daughter <strong>of</strong> William Earl <strong>of</strong><br />

Errol, High Constable <strong>of</strong> Scotland ; whose posterity continued in a right line,<br />

without interruption, till Laurence Lord Oliphant, who had only one daughter<br />

Anne, by his lady, Anne Drummond, daughter to the Lord Maderty. She was<br />

married to Sir James Douglas, brother-german to the Marquis <strong>of</strong> Douglas, who<br />

was created Lord Mordington in the Merse, by King Charles I. with the precedency<br />

due to the Lord Oliphant, in right <strong>of</strong> his wife ; notwithstanding <strong>of</strong> which,<br />

Patrick Oliphant was served and retoured heir-male to his cousin-german Laurence<br />

Lord Oliphant, the heiress's father last deceased, and got a new patent from King<br />

Charles I. the I7th <strong>of</strong> June 1633. Both dignities stand in the Rolls <strong>of</strong> Parliament,<br />

with their respective precedency, as in Sir James Dalrymple's Collections, p. 306.<br />

Of this Patrick Lord Oliphant is descended the present Charles. Lord Oliphant,<br />

whose achievement is as his predecessors, gules, three crescents argent, supported<br />

by two elephants, proper; and for crest, an unicorn's head couped argent, maned<br />

and horned or : with the motto, Tout paurvoir.<br />

The cadets <strong>of</strong> this family are these, whose arms are matriculated.<br />

OLIPHANT <strong>of</strong> Kelly, in the shire <strong>of</strong> Fife, was descended <strong>of</strong> Thomas^ eldest son <strong>of</strong><br />

Sir John Oliphant <strong>of</strong> Aberdalgy, predecessor to the Lord Oliphant, by his second<br />

wife, a daughter <strong>of</strong> Home <strong>of</strong> that Ilk, in the reign <strong>of</strong> Robert III. three crescents<br />

within a bordure ingrailed argent.<br />

ROBERT OLIPHANT <strong>of</strong> Bachilton, descended <strong>of</strong> the Lord Oliphant, gules, a cheveron<br />

between three crescents argent ; crest, a crescent or : motto, What ivaj<br />

may be. Lyon Register.<br />

OLIPHANT <strong>of</strong> Glassbinny, descended <strong>of</strong> Bachilton, the same, but makes the<br />

cheveron for difference crenelle ; crest, the sun in his glory, proper : motto, Hinc<br />

illuniinabimur . Lyon Register.<br />

Sir LAURENCE OLIPHANT <strong>of</strong> Cask, descended <strong>of</strong> a second son <strong>of</strong> Walter Lord<br />

Oliphant, carries the arms <strong>of</strong> Oliphant,<br />

with a small crescent in the centre for his<br />

difference ; crest, a falcon perching, proper : motto, the same with the Lord Oli-<br />

phant. Lyon Register.<br />

LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Writer to the Signet, descended <strong>of</strong> a second son <strong>of</strong> Cask,<br />

parted per fesse wavey gules and argent, three crescents counter-changed <strong>of</strong> the<br />

same ; crest> an elephant's head couped argent : motto, Non mutat fortuna genus.<br />

Lyon Register.<br />

OLIPHANT <strong>of</strong> Condie, descended <strong>of</strong> the Lord Oliphant, gules, three crescents<br />

argent, within a bordure counter-componed <strong>of</strong> the first and second ; crest, a falcon<br />

volant, proper : motto, Altiora peto. Lyon Register.<br />

OLJPHANT <strong>of</strong> Kinncdder, descended <strong>of</strong> the Lord Oliphant, the arms <strong>of</strong> Oliphant<br />

within a bordure cheque, argent and gules : motto, Honesta peto. L. R.

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