Granted 10 December 2003

Arms: Azure a Cross flory and parted Or between four Covered Cups bases inwards Argent.

Crest: On a wreath Or and Azure Out of a Well a demi Badger Azure the head Argent and eye-stripes Azure.

Supporters: On either side a Lion Argent armed and langued Azure and holding in the interior forepaw a Lymphad flags flying Or.

Badge: A Martlet close Azure beaked and enfiling a Coronet Or.

Lord Butler of Brockwell, presently Master of University College, Oxford, and formerly Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service, was created a life peer on 12 February 1998. In 2003, he was invested as a Knight of the Garter and as such he places the Garter around his shield. A banner of his arms, a carving in wood of his crest, and a stall plate showing his whole achievement are set up in the choir of the Chapel of St George in Windsor, which is the chapel of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

His Lordship’s arms make references to those of University College, Oxford (by means of the cross and the martlet), and to the arms of various families of the name of Butler (by means of the covered cups). The badger, or brock, emerging from a well, is a simple pun on the second part of his peerage title.