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WEIR ARMS

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Officially Recorded in Scotland

Arms
Armiger
Blazon
Source
1)& 4) WEIR OF BLACKWOOD

2) WEIR OF THAT ILK

3) Sir George WEIR OF BLACKWOOD

Argent on a fess Azure three mullets of the first. 1) David Lindsey of the Mount

2) David Lindsey of the Mount Secundus

3) Alexander Nisbet's A System of Heraldry 1722

4) Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1672-7

WEIR-VERE OF STONEBYRES
Or on a fess Azure three mullets Argent. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1777
John Laing WIER
Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent on a fess Azure three mullets of the field in chief a fleur de lys Gules 2nd & 3rd Argent three piles conjoined in point Sable in the middle chief point a martlet Or over all in centre of the four quarters a spur-revel of six points Gules. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1801

Entry reads Wier rather than Weir.

Wiliam WEIR
Kilmarnock
Parted per pale Argent and Or on a fess Azure three mullets of the first. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1872
COSENS-WEIR OF BOGANGREEN

Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent a fess between three mullets in chief and a crescent in base Azure (for Weir) 2nd and 3rd Argent on a bend Gules between two griffins' heads couped Vert three martlets Or (for Cosens). Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1865
John Campbell WEIR
Or on a fess between two cotises Sable three stars of six points of the field. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1897
Archibald Munday WEIR
Or on a fess between two cotises Sable three stars of six points of the field in chief a crescent of the second.. Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary
1898
Rt Hon Sir William Douglas WEIR
Baron Weir
Azure a cogwheel Or winged Argent in chief the sun in its splendour of the second. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973
22nd March 1935 31/42

Later Viscount Weir (1938)

Recorded Elsewhere

Arms
Armiger
Blazon
Source
1) Lt John WEIR
(43rd Regiment of Foot)
of St Anne's, Soho

2) WEIR OF HALL CRAIG

Azure a fess ermine between three mullets in chief Or and a crescent in base Argent. 1a) Harleian Society's Grantees of Arms
1779 Vol XIV fol 133
1b) BGA Blazon

2) Burke’s Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1899

David WEIR
of Dublin
Argent on a fess Azure three mullets of the first a canton ermine charged with a trefoil slipped proper. BGA: Arms confirmed by Fortescue, Ulster King of Arms
William Kenneth James WEIR
3rd Viscount Weir
Azure a cogwheel Or winged Argent in chief the sun in its splendour of the second. Burkes Landed Gentry The Kingdom In Scotland
Andrew WEIR
1st Baron Inverforth
b.1865 d.1955
Or on a fess Azure between in chief an escutcheon per bend Azure and Gules charged with a bend sinister Argent and in base an ancient galley Sable flags flying to the dexter Gules three mullets of the first. A C Fox-Davies' Armorial Families 1929 - College of Arms 10 Mar 1919