John Bargrave

Arms of Bargrave: Or, on a pale gules a sword erect argent pomel and hilt of the field a chief azure charged with three bezants[1]

John Bargrave (1610 – 11 May 1680), was an English author and collector and a canon of Canterbury Cathedral.[2]

  1. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.47; Bargrave family of Bridge, Kent, had branches at Bifrons Hall in the parish of Patrixbourne in Kent (built by brother of Isaac Bargrave) (B.M. THOMAS, A HISTORY OF BIFRONS MANSION HOUSE, Kent Archaeological Society[1]) and at Eastry Court, Kent
  2. ^ Under the Sign: John Bargrave as Collector, Traveler, and Witness by Stephen Bann, Michigan, 1995