English: Church of St Michael & All Angels, Didlington, Norfolk - Hatchment of William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909), DL, JP, of Didlington Park, Norfolk; Foley House, Kent; and Hackney, Middlesex, a Conservative Member of Parliament and collector of books and works of art. He married Margaret Susan Mitford, daughter and heiress of Robert Mitford of Mitford Castle, Northumberland. In 1877 he assumed the name of William Amhurst Tyssen Amherst. He was MP for West Norfolk 1880-1885 and for South West Norfolk 1885-1892. He was created Baron Amherst of Hackney in 1892. In his country home, Didlington Hall, he built a museum for his rapidly growing Egyptian collection. In 1906, he was forced to sell a large portion of his collection after discovering that his estate and certain trust funds had been entirely dissipated at the hands of an untrustworthy solicitor, Charles Cheston, under whose management they had been placed. He lived only six weeks following the first Sotheby's auction from this collection. Arms, quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Gules, three tilting spears erect in fesse or the heads argent (Amherst/Amhurst);
• 2: Per saltire argent and or, in fess two lions rampant gules in chief and in base a dexter arm couped at the elbow issuing from the sinister habited of the third cuffed azure the hand proper holding a cross-crosslet fitchée also of the third (Daniel (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.260))
• 3: Or, on a chevron azure between three French marigolds slipped proper two lions passant combatant of the first all within a bordure compony (Tyssen);
  

Overall an inescutcheon of pretence of Argent, a fess between three moles sable (Mitford); on top a coronet of a baron.

(Source: Farrer, Edmund, The church heraldry of Norfolk: a description of all coats of arms on brasses, monuments, slabs, hatchments, &c., now to be found in the county. llustrated. With references to Blomefield's History of Norfolk and Burke's Armory. Together with notes from the inscriptions attached, Vol I, Norwich, 1887, p.74[1])

Geneaology: (Source: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/f5b12767-0453-48a5-87cd-1cc070b0ab6e)

• In 1794 William George Daniel (d.1837) married Amelia Amhurst, the daughter and heiress of Nicolas Amhurst by his wife Mary Tyssen, daughter and heiress of Francis Tyssen of Hackney and Foulden. William George Daniel succeeded to the Tyssen estates and in 1814 took the surname Daniel-Tyssen. He had issue including:
  • William George Daniel-Tyssen (1804-1855), who in 1834 he married Mary Fountaine, a daughter of Andrew Fountaine of Narford Hall, Norfolk. In 1854 he assumed the name of Tyssen-Amhurst. He left issue including:
    • William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909) who married Margaret Susan Mitford, daughter and heiress of Robert Mitford of Mitford Castle, Northumberland. In 1877 he assumed the name of William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst. He was MP for West Norfolk 1880-1885 and for South West Norfolk 1885-1892. He was created Baron Amherst of Hackney in 1892. He died in 1909 without male issue and was succeeded by his daughter:
      • Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney (1857-1919) who in 1885 married Lord William Cecil. On the death of her father in 1909 she became Baroness Amherst of Hackney. She left issue :
        • William Amherst Cecil (1886-1914) who married 1910 but was killed at the Battle of Aisne, predeceasing his mother and leaving issue among others:
          • William Alexander Evering Cecil, 3rd Baron Amherst of Hackney (1912–1980), who succeeded his grandmother in the title.