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The arms and motto are those of Christina Elisabeth Sichterman, Countess of Kintore (1738-1809). She was the daughter of Jan Albert Sichterman of Groningen, Netherlands who was the Intendant General of the Dutch Settlement in the East Indies and the Fiscal of Bengal (1734). In 1766 she married Anthony Adrian Falconer (1742-1804), born in Groningen, the eldest surviving son of William Falconer, 6th Lord Falconer of the Scottish Peerage, a colonel in the Dutch army, and Rembertina Maria Idiking of Groningen. His paternal grandmother was Margaret Keith, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Kentmore. He was later (1776) 7th Lord Falconer of Halkerton and from 1778, as Anthony Adrian Keith-Falconer, 5th Earl of Kintore