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Arms of Keates, Lords of the Manor of Bishops Nympton, Devon: Argent, on a pale sable three cats-a-mountain of the field on a canton of the second a cake of copper proper; crest: A tiger proper charged with three bezants fesseways resting the dexter paw upon an escutcheon sable, thereon a cake of copper proper (per Fox-Davies, Armorial families; a directory of some gentlemen of coat-armour, showing which arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority , pp.126-7[1]). (A difference of the canting arms (cat, kit, kitten) of of Keate of The Hoo, Hertfordshire (Keate baronets, created 1660): Argent, three mountain cats passant in pale sable (Burke, Burnard, The General Armory, 1884, p.554)). As seen engraved on memorial brass tablet in Bishops Nympton Church, Devon, inscribed: To the glory of God and in loving memory of William Keates, JP, Lord of the Manor of Bishops Nympton, who was born 18 (?) February 1801 and died 18 May 1888 and was buried at Cheadle in Staffordshire. This window was erected by his widow Mary Keates and his sole surviving son Joseph Andrew Keates.

Text of Fox-Davis:

JOSEPH ANDREW KEATES, Esquire, of Bishop's Nympton, in the county of Devon. Born December 14, 1833, being the youngest but only surviving son of the late William Keates, Esquire, of Greenfield, in the county of Flint, Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff 1874, by his wife Susan Penrose, eldest daughter of Joseph Andrew of Redruth, in the county of Cornwall. Seats: — Bishop's Nympton, in the county of Devon ; and Dunstone, Torquay, Devon. Married, April 26, 1860, Elizabeth, second daughter of Edmund Brock Lyon of Neston, in the county of Chester ; and has issue:

• (1) Edmund Lyon Keates, Gentleman, eldest son and heir, Lord of the Manor of Bishops Nympton, BA New College, Oxford, Barrister (Inner Temple), born 1861 , died 1905 (aged 45) at Cadenabbia, Lake Como, Italy, where he was buried, as is stated on his mural tablet in Bishops Nympton Church;
• (2) William Keates, Esquire, Captain Suffolk Regiment, born June 7, 1862 ;
• (3) The Reverend Herbert Andrew Keates of New College, Oxford;
• (4) John Keates, Gentleman;
• Florence Mary (married, November 20, 1890, Sir Henry Beyer Robertson of .... in the county of Merioneth) ;
• Elizabeth.