Viscount Simonds (Extinct)

Gavin Turnbull Simonds, P.C., 1st and only Viscount Simonds

Arms: Tierced in pale azure gules and vert, three trefoils slipped or.

Crest: An ermine proper resting the sinister paw upon the astronomical sign of Taurus sable and holding in the mouth a trefoil slipped or.

Supporters: On either side an ermine proper each charged on the shoulder, the dexter with a hop leaf and the sinister with a bezant.

Lord Simonds was born November 28, 1881, his Lordship was knighted 1937, sworn as a member of the Privy Council 1944, created a Life Peer as Baron Simonds 1944, and created an hereditary Peer as Viscount Simonds 1954.

His Lordship was an accomplished Barrister-at-law, a Judge of the High Court of Justice, and was the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (1951-1954).

Lord Simonds married Mary Hope, daughter of the late Judge Francis Hamilton Mellor, and had three sons (two twins), each of whom preceded him in death.

• Robert Francis Simonds, who died in infancy
• Gavin Alexander Simonds (twin), born 1915 and died as a result of illness contracted on active service in East Africa in 1951.
• John Mellor Simonds (twin), born 1915 and served in World War II, killed in action at Arnhem in 1944.

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