The crest is that of Onslow, presumably for Richard Onslow, born in 1654, who succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1688. He was speaker of the House of Commons 1708-1710, a post which his nephew Arther Onslow held during the reign of George II. He served as a Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer and in 1715 he was appointed Teller of the Exchequer for life on account, it was said, of the great services he provided to the family of William of Orange. He married in 1676 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Tulse, and in 1716 he was created Baron Onslow. It is likely that these fire dogs date from before his elevation to the peerage, after which it would be customary to include a peer's coronet with the crest. He died in November 1717 and his widow "drowned herself being melancholy" in a pond at Croydon the following November.