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The new flag of the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Foundation
Vert amid Shamrock
proper a Harp Or stringed Argent all within an Oval Strap also Vert buckled
fimbriated and garnished Or lettered in Gold ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY GEORGE
CROSS FOUNDATION and ensigned by a representation of Our Royal Crown proper
and in canton a representation of the George Cross Argent
For further information,
see below.
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Welcome to
the second edition of the College of Arms Newsletter. The aim of the
newsletter is to keep interested members of the public up-to-date
with the activities of the College of Arms and its officers,
including matters of genealogical and heraldic significance such as
recent grants of arms and recently recorded pedigrees. It is
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A small
selection of those recently receiving grants or exemplifications
from the English kings of arms.
ALEXANDER
Clive Sydney. Arms, crest and badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of
Arms, 20/4/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 290.
BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND INSTITUTE.
Arms and crest. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy & Ulster Kings of
Arms, 30/3/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 274.
COLLEGE OF CLINICAL PERFUSION SCIENTISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND.
Arms, crest and badge. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy & Ulster Kings
of Arms, 27/2/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 252.
DORANTT
Tomasz Jan. Arms and crest, and arms in memory of his mother
Czeslawa Dorantt (daughter of Wladyslaw Lysakowski) and for her
descendants. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy & Ulster Kings of Arms,
15/3/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 261.
GOVAN Sir
Lawrence Herbert, of Christchurch in New Zealand, Kt. Arms and
crest. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy & Ulster Kings of Arms,
26/4/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 284.
KINGSTON-UPON-HULL,
City of. Badge. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy & Ulster Kings of
Arms, 11/2/2004. College reference: Standards 5/82.
This badge is
blazoned Three Ancient Crowns in pale Or. For sight of it in
use visit the Kingston upon Hull city website at
www.hullcc.gov.uk/news/index.php.
HAMPTON
Sir Leslie Geoffrey, Kt. Arms, crest and badge. Garter and
Clarenceux Kings of Arms, 14/5/2004. College reference: Grants 169 /
307.
HODSON
Beverley Cliffe, OBE. Arms and badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of
Arms, 5/3/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 244.
LACEY
Anthony John. Arms, crest and badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of
Arms, 8/3/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 257.
MAHATHERA
Ajahn Khemadhammo, OBE. Arms and crest. Garter and Clarenceux Kings
of Arms, 17/5/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 314.
MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE.
Arms and badge. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy & Ulster Kings of
Arms, 10/3/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 259.
MARTIN
Sir George Henry, Kt, CBE. Arms, crest and badge. Garter and
Clarenceux Kings of Arms, 15/3/2004. College reference: Grants 169 /
286. See the College website for an illustration and blazon of this
coat of arms.
PATNICK
Sir Cyril Irvine, Kt, OBE. Arms and crest. Garter and Norroy &
Ulster Kings of Arms, 22/3/2004. College reference: Grants 169 /
266.
ROWE Rear
Admiral Sir Patrick Barton, KCVO, CBE. Arms and crest. Garter and
Clarenceux Kings of Arms, 14/4/2004. College reference: Grants 169 /
294.
STRONG
Sir Roy Colin, Kt. Arms and crest. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of
Arms, 26/4/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 292.
URCH
Oliver Joseph. Arms and crest. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms,
12/3/2004. College reference: Grants 169 / 278.
The new Roll of the Peerage.
The House of Lords Act 1999 removed the automatic right of
hereditary peers of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United
Kingdom to receive a summons to sit in Parliament, and led to the
discontinuation of the Roll of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
formerly maintained by the Clerk of the Parliaments. This meant that
there was no official register in which those inheriting hereditary
peerages could seek inclusion as evidence of their status or rank.
The matter has now been partly resolved by a Royal Warrant dated 1
June 2004, published in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes
on 11 June, and due to be recorded at the College of Arms. This
institutes a Roll of the Peerage, to be presided over by the
Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs in consultation with
Garter Principal King of Arms and Lord Lyon King of Arms. The new
Roll (which will be maintained by a Registrar and two Joint
Assistant Registrars) will have slightly broader scope than the old
parliamentary roll, in that it will record peers of Ireland as well
as those of England, Scotland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom.
Life Peers may also be enrolled. The warrant also states that any
peer not entered on the Roll will not be entitled to any precedence
attaching to his peerage, and shall not be addressed or referred to
by the title of his peerage in any official context. The new Roll is
thus rather more significant than the old parliamentary one, which
included only those peers sitting in Parliament; a peer might have
decided not to seek a summons without necessarily wishing to abjure
his peerage. Application to be entered on the Roll, and questions
regarding its operation, should be directed to the Joint Assistant
Registrar, The Roll of the Peerage, The Department for
Constitutional Affairs (Constitutional Policy Division), Selborne
House, 54 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QW.
The Marriage of England and Spain: 29 June to 30 September 2004.
This major exhibition at Winchester Cathedral marks the 450th
anniversary of the marriage of Mary I to Philip, King of Naples and
Jerusalem, and later King of Spain, which took place in the
cathedral on 25 July 1554. The College of Arms has lent several
items, which join important artefacts from the British Museum, the
National Maritime Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Prado,
the National Archives and other collections at home and abroad. For
fuller details, visit
www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk.
The Arms of the Speaker of the House of Commons.
On 8 October 2003, Lord Lyon King of Arms (chief heraldic officer of
the Crown in Scotland) granted arms to the Right Honourable Michael
Martin, M.P. for Glasgow Springburn and Speaker of the House of
Commons. As was reported in the national press on 23 July this year,
these arms have recently been set up in the Speaker’s House in the
Palace of Westminster. In April, as is necessary before Scottish
arms can be used in England, the grant was entered into the records
of the College of Arms, with the reference Scotland 5 / 88. The
design of the arms was of course entirely the work of Lyon Court.
Flag of the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Foundation.
Under the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000, the Royal Ulster
Constabulary George Cross Foundation was established to mark the
sacrifices made by members of the RUC. Its name commemorates the
award of the George Cross to the Constabulary made in 1999. By Royal
warrant dated 20 May 2004 Her Majesty the Queen granted and assigned
the Foundation a flag. For an illustration,
see above. The warrant is recorded in the College of Arms with
the reference I.85
/ 169.
Courtesy titles of adopted children.
A Royal warrant dated 30 April 2004 directs that such styles and
courtesy titles as are proper to the younger children of peers of
the realm will in future be accorded to children adopted by peers
within the meaning of the Adoption Act 1976 and the Adoption and
Children Act 2002, notwithstanding that no right to any dignity or
title of honour is thereby conferred upon them. This means, for
instance, that the adopted sons of an Earl will be accorded the
prefix designation of ‘Honourable’ and the adopted daughters of an
Earl that of ‘Lady’, used in front of their Christian names. The
warrant is recorded in the College of Arms with the reference
I.85
/ 170.
Tudor Enigmas: 26 May 2004.
Peter Gwynn-Jones, C.V.O., Garter Principal King of Arms, gave a
lecture with this title to the Heraldry Society at the Society of
Antiquaries in Burlington House, Piccadilly. The lecture covered
such topics as the disputes between the sixteenth-century kings of
arms, the granting of crests to women in the Tudor period and the
question of the species of bird represented in the arms of the
College of Arms itself.
Heraldry and the Mediaeval Coinage: 3 July 2004.
Clive Cheesman (Rouge Dragon Pursuivant) spoke on this topic at the
British Numismatic Society summer meeting in Canterbury. His paper
dealt with the significance of the newly discovered ‘lion’ pennies
of the twelfth-century Earls of Gloucester for understanding the
origins of noble and royal heraldry in England.
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Medal for Heraldry.
On 14 June 2004 it was announced that the newly instituted Medal for
Heraldry of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society was to
be awarded to Peter Gwynn-Jones, CVO, Garter Principal King of Arms.
“In
selecting Mr. Gwynn-Jones to be its first recipient, the G&B
Committee on Heraldry celebrates not only his considerable
achievements as an officer of arms for over 30 years but also the
renaissance of heraldry in England,” said Henry C.B. Lindh,
president of the society. The award is to be made at a dinner in New
York on 4 October this year.
A very small
selection of pedigrees recently entered into the College’s official
records:
BATESON
of Liverpool and Lacour de Visa in France. A five-generation
pedigree from 1935 to the present day showing descendants of the
names of TREBLE and WALKER, cross-referenced back to Knights 1/67.
College reference: Surrey 31/179.
BERESFORD
of Hafod Neddyn, co Carmarthen, Wear Gifford Hall, co Devon,
Weston-super-Mare, co Somerset, the London borough of Harrow, and
South Bowood, co Dorset. An eight-generation pedigree from 1774 to
the present day, cross-referenced back to Norfolk 24/82. College
reference: Norfolk 50/245.
CARR of
Combe Martin and Parracombe, co Devon, of Portishead co Somerset,
and of Binda and Chatsbury, New South Wales. A six-generation
pedigree from 1756 to the present day, cross-referenced to Norfolk
49/5 and Grants 127/135. College reference: Norfolk 51/9.
DIBBLEE
of New York city and of Santa Barbara and Rancho San Julian,
California. A four-generation pedigree from 1823 to the present day
with connections to WILSON of Clermont, New York state, and DONOHOE
of Atherton, San Francisco and Gilroy, California. College
reference: Surrey 31/174.
KENDALL
of Pelyn and St Winnow, co Cornwall, Budleigh Salterton, co Devon,
Over Darwen, co Lancaster. Beckenham and Benenden, co Kent,
Shaftesbury, co Dorset, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea. A twelve-generation pedigree in the male line to the
present day with a three-generation descent from John TREFFRY of
Fowey, co Cornwall, who died in 1590. College reference: Norfolk
50/246.
LUDLOW of
Shrewsbury, Stokesay, Hodnet and Morehouse, co Salop. Pedigree of
ten generations starting from Nicholas de Ludlow, wool merchant and
burgess of Shrewsbury in 1265, cross-referenced to G15/61, G15/203
and D10/42. College reference: Norfolk 50/224.
MÜLLER
(otherwise MULLER) of East Dulwich and Balham, co London, Potton End
and Berkhamsted, co Hertfordshire, and the London Borough of Waltham
Forest, formerly of Colombier in the Swiss Canton of Neuchâtel. A
pedigree of four generations from 1872 to the present day. College
reference: Surrey 31/172.
REGAN
(otherwise REGGONS) of Surry and New Kent counties, Virginia, and
Bertie Precinct, North Carolina. A pedigree of four generations from
1686 to 1727, with a cross-reference to Norfolk 50/125. College
reference: Surrey 31/170.
SHAW of
Colne, co Lancaster, and Rothwell, co York. A pedigree of eight
generations from Henry Shaw who was living 17 May 1498 and died
before 20 January 1506/7, down to the children of Henry Shaw of
Langroyd in the parish of Colne, who were born from 1660 to 1685.
College reference: Norfolk 51/14. |
