The arms are those of Douglas-Pennant with those of Dawkins-Pennant on an escutcheon of pretence, and impaling those of Fitzroy, as borne by Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, born in 1800, the 4th son of the Hon. John Douglas, who assumed the surname and arms of Pennant in consequence of his marriage to Juliana, elder daughter and co-heiress of George Hay Dawkins-Pennant. He married, as his second wife, in 1846, Maria Louisa, youngest daughter of Henry, 5th Duke of Grafton.
In 1824 he was part of a crew of six Guards officers who rowed a six-oared wherry from Oxford to Westminster Bridge in 15¾ hours. He dies in 1886 aged 85.