NAM.1978-08-76-1

Plaid brooch, 4th Coy, 1st Sutherland Rifle Volunteers, 1860-1880. White metal. Mounted at the centre of a circular wreath of thistles, an oval circlet surmounted by a Duke’s coronet and bearing the raised title ‘DUCHESS HARRIET’S COMPANY (ROGART)’. Within the oval, a shield party per pale. The dexter half is charged with the arms of the Duke of Sutherland (quarterly 1 and 4, Barry of eight, over all a cross patonce for Gower, 2, three laurel leaves, for Leveson, 3, three mullets within a tressure flory counter flory for Sutherland). The sinister half is charged with the arms of Viscount Howard (on a bend between six cross crosslets fitchy, an escutcheon charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure, a mullet for difference). The colours are indicated in trick. Brooch fitting upon reverse. George Granville William Sutherland Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland (1828-1892), was Lt Col of the 1st Sutherland Rifle Volunteers from 1864 to 1881. He was the son of Harriet-Elizabeth-Georgiana (1806-1868), the third daughter of George, Viscount Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle. She married George Granville, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, on 27 May 1823 and was Mistress of the Robes to HM Queen Victoria.