The arms are those of Poulett impaling those of Pocock, as borne by John, 4th Earl Poulett, born in 1756, who married as his first wife Sophia, daughter and heir of Admiral Sir George Pocock. She was described perhaps somewhat unkindly by the Duchess of Devonshire in 1782 as "the oddest little woman I ever saw-very young and so childish and vulgar that one is amazed every now and then to hear her come out with very clever things. She was a great fortune, she has a comical ugly face, and her waist is longer than her legs." Earl Poulett was a Colonel in the Army 1779-1794 and Colonel of the Somerset Fencible Cavalry and the First Somerset Militia. He was created a Knight of the Thistle in 1794 and served as a Lord of the Bedchamber from 1795 to 1819. (Complete Peerage)