Frances Howard-Vyse was the 2nd daughter of Henry Hesketh, of Newtown, Cheshire. In 1810 she married Major General Richard William Howard-Vyse of Stoke Place, Stoke Poges. They had ten children. Frances died on 14th December, 1841
Motto: Virtus mille scuta – virtue equals a thousand shields
Heraldry: Sinister background black. Quarter, 1st and 4th, Argent a stag’s head cabossed between the attires a cross sable (Vyse). Quarters, 2nd and 3rd, Howard with augmentation, charged on bend of 2nd quarter with a crescent argent on a molet sable for difference, impaling. On a bend engrailed sable between two roundels gules three garbs (Hesketh). Cherub’s head above