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The grasshopper, a heraldic pun on the name Gresham ('Gres' is the Anglo-Saxon word for grass), grasps the letter 'I' (or 'J') for Sir John Gresham (1492-1556), who was knighted in 1537, became Lord Mayor in 1547, and was the founder of Gresham's School in his birthplace, Holt, Norfolk.\r\n\r\nThe quarry comes from Titsey Place, Limpsfield, Surrey, former home of the Leveson-Gower family, descendants of the Greshams. 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Passed through female line to the Leveson-Gower family, a cadet branch of the Dukes of Sutherland.  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