Duff Baronets - Assheton-Smith, Later Duff Baronets, of Vaynol Park (1911)

Assheton-Smith, Later Duff Baronets, of Vaynol Park (1911)

The Assheton-Smith, later Duff Baronetcy, of Vaynol Park in the County of Carnarfon, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 1 August 1911 for Charles Garden Assheton-Smith. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1980.

• Sir Charles Garden Assheton-Smith, 1st Baronet (1851-1914)
• Sir Robert George Vivian Duff, 2nd Baronet (1876-1914)
• Sir (Charles) Michael Robert Vivian Duff, 3rd Baronet (1907-1980)

Coat of arms

• Shield: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, counter quartered (1st) and (4th) az. 2 bars between three pheons, or (Smith); (2nd) and (3rd) arg. a mullet pierced sa. (Assheton); 2nd and 3rd vert, a fesse dancetty erm., between a stag's head cabossed in chief and two escallops in base or, within a bordure chequy of the last and first (Duff).
• Crests

1. Issuant from a mural crown, or, 2 arms embowed vested az. cuffed arg. the hands ppr. holding a pheon (Smith);

2. a mower in the act of mowing vested per pale arg. and sa., scythe-handle or, blade, ppr. (Assheton);

3. a bucks head erased ppr. (Duff)

• Motto: Virtute et opera