88 THE FAMILY OF GALPIN OF
Per Chevron Gules and Or two Cock’s feathers in chief
of the last and a Bear’s head erased in base sable, And for the
4 Crest On a Wreath of the Colours a Cock’s head erased Sable,
combed and wattled Gules, charged with a Galtrap and between
two Cock’s feathers Or as the same are in the margin hereof
more plainly depicted, to be borne and used for ever hereafter
by him, the said FRANCIS WILLIAM GALPIN, and his descendants
by the other descendants of his father the said ]o1»1N GALPIN,
deceased, as also by the descendants of his uncle the said
WILLIAM GALPIN, deceased, with due and proper differences
according to the Laws of Arms, AS WITNESS whereof We the
said Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms have to these
Presents subscribed Our names and affixed the Seals of Our
several Ofiices this seventh day of january in the sixty second
year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Victoria by the Grace
of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Queen, Defender of the Faith, etc. and in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine.
Albert W. Woods, GARTER. G. E. Cokayne, C1.ARENcEUx.
THOMAS DIXON GALPIN y
Thomas Dixon Galpin was born at Dorchester on the
15th November 1828. He was the second son of William
Galpin of Dorchester, the first Chairman of the Wilts and
Dorset Bank, and his wife Hannah, daughter of Thomas Dixon,
and was the grandson of William Galpin, a Freeman of the
Borough of Dorchester, and his wife Charlotte Clare. His
elder brother died in infancy and Thomas Dixon Galpin was
left the eldest surviving child, having one brother and four
sisters younger than himself, a fifth sister dying when only
a few months old.
He was educated by the Reverend William Barnes, the
Dorset poet, and at the Owenite Settlement at Harmony Hall,
near Stockbridge, Hants. When this settlement was broken
up his father farmed at Bentley and later joined the White
Quakers, afterwards going, with his children, to Ireland. The