The Shirley Family Crest

William Shirley, the Royal Governor of Massachusetts (1740), belonged, undoubtedly, to the Shirleys of Wiston, county Sussex, a branch of the noble house of Ferrers. His son, Thomas Shirley, a Major General in the English Army, was Governor of the Leeward Islands, and created a baronet in 1786. The baronetcy of Shirley (of Oakhall, county Sussex), became extinct in 1815, at the death s.p. of the second baronet.

Family

Shirley

Motto

Honor virtutis proemium.Honor the reward of valor.

Blazon

A Man's Head: Proper—Wreathed With Laurels, Vert.

Source

America Hereldica