BEACON GENEALOGICAL AND HERALDIC RESEARCH 53 HITCHIN STREET, BALDOCK, HERTFORDSHIRE, SG7 6AQ UNITED KINGDOM Telephone: 01462 892062 Mobile: 07989 976394 E-mail: [email protected] Web: https://sites.google.com/site/beacongandhresearch The Crest of the Family of Thornbrough The crest as engraved upon this George IV English Sterling Silver Meat Skewer by an unidentified silversmith hallmarked London 1826 is that of the family of Thornbrough. It may be blazoned as follows: Crest: Upon a naval crown or thereon a fox passant proper (differenced with a label of three points) Given the evidence of the crest (with its label of three points charged upon the fox’s breast) engraved upon this meat skewer it was undoubtedly in the possession of Rear Admiral Edward Le Cras Thornbrough (born 1st March 1795 died 25th December 1857) the only surviving child of Admiral Sir Edward Thornbrough, GCB and his first wife, Ann Le Cras. Rear Admiral Thornbrough was son and grandson of Royal Naval officers. His father Admiral Sir Edward Thornbrough was a senior, long-serving veteran officer of the Royal Navy during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century having seen action in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars; whilst his grandfather was Commander Edward Thornbrough. Rear Admiral Thornbrough entered the Royal Navy in 1806 and saw action throughout the later Napoleonic period on both the Home and Mediterranean stations. He married Emily Raikes 1 Garrett, the second daughter of Daniel Garrett, of Colt House, near Honiton in the County of Devon on the 30th November 1820. Both Rear Admiral Thornbrough and his father Admiral Thornbrough are buried in a family vault in the churchyard of the Parish Church of St John the Baptist at Bishopsteighton in the County of Devon near to the one-time family home of Bishopsteighton Lodge. Bishopsteighton Lodge, the former home of the Thornbrough family. 19th February 2017 2 .