Of shaped rectangular form with applied grapevine border, each corner with applied satyr's mask in high relief, on four cast shell and grapevine decorated feet, engraved at center with a coat of arms.


The arms are those of Joliffe with Pitches quartering Hassell in pretence for Rev. William John Jolliffe and his wife Julia, daughter and co-heir of Sir Abraham Pytches , Knight, of Streatham whom he married in 1799. Their eldest son became 1st Baron Hylton in 1866, at which point the Baronial coronet was added.


The 1st Baron was a senior officer at the "Peterloo Massacre" of 1819 and played cricket for Hampshire, prior to county cricket's formal inception, against Sussex in 1825 and scored 12 runs. He was Conservative MP for Petersfield from 1833-1835 and 1837-1866 (when he got his peerage) and served as under secretary for foreign affairs in 1852 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Conservative Whip in 1858-1859. As whip he was popular and wide-ranging in his activities, not only whipping in the Commons, but mediating between Disraeli and Rose and Spofforth (the solicitors who handled the day-to-day business), managing the election fund, and developing a more systematic party organization. He was sworn of the Privy Council on 18 June 1859.