[Illustration] An ancient family, descended from Philip, who in the
reign of Henry III. was lord of Oakeley in the parish of Bishop's
Castle, from whence he assumed his name, and which has ever since
been the inheritance of his descendants.
Younger Branch. Sir Charles Oakeley, Baronet 1790.
See Blakeway, pp. 132, 173; and Morris MSS.
ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess between three crescents gules as many
fleurs-de-lis or_. These arms are, with those of the Plowdens and
other families of the vicinity, allusive to the services of
ancestors who fought under the banners of the great suzeraines of
their district, the Fitz-Alans, in the Crusades and the battlefields
of France.
Present Representative, the Rev. Arthur Oakeley.