Brice family

[1] They were significant landowners in Somerset, particularly in Chard and Kingstone Allowenshay, and as Lords of the manor of Dinnington.

[2] The family seat was Dinnington Manor House (now Frog Farm),[3] and multiple Brice monuments and tombs survive in the Dinninton parish church of St.

By 1322 the Brices had established themselves as major landowners in Dinnington, and remained active and prominent in the West Country for centuries after.

[5] Though a string of aristocratic marriages in the 16th century helped secure the family's social position, their decline in fortune came as a result of siding with the royalist cause against Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War, for which Worthington Brice, his son John, and his cousin Simon Every received severe fines during the interregnum.

The arms are sable, a griffin passant, or; the crest, a lions head erased, ermine, pierced with an arrow, or.