[Illustration] In the reign of Henry III., Robert Whitgreave, the
ancestor of this family, was seated at Burton near Stafford.
Bridgeford, in the vicinity of Whitgreave, from whence the name is
derived, and early in the seventeenth century Moseley, successively
became the residence of the Whitgreaves, and at the latter place
Thomas Whitgreave, Esq. had the honour to shelter his sovereign
Charles II. after the battle of Worcester.
See Erdeswick, pp. 137, 185, 348.
ARMS.--_Azure, on a cross quarterly pierced or four chevrons gules_.
This coat, founded on the arms of Stafford, was granted by Humphry
Earl of Stafford to Robert Whitgrave in the 20th of Henry VI. See
the grant in Camden's Remains, ed. 1657, p. 221. An augmentation has
been lately added, _On a chief argent, a rose gules within a wreath
of oak proper_.
Present Representative, George Thomas Whitgreave, Esq.