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Welcome to the third 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 produced every three months and sent automatically to those who subscribe by entering their name and email address in our mailing list. Other benefits for those who submit their names in this way include advance notice of College of Arms events, relevant publications, and media appearances. If you wish to remove your name from this list, to send the newsletter on to a friend, or to send a genealogical or heraldic enquiry to the College, please make use of the links listed at the top of this page.
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Other recent entries in the recordsNational Police Memorial Day. A badge recently approved by HM The Queen for National Police Memorial Day was recorded at the College of Arms with the reference Standards 5/85. It is seen on the right. The Worshipful Company of Engineers. By Royal Charter dated 26 April 2004 HM The Queen was pleased to incorporate the Masters, Wardens and Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Engineers of the City of London and to transfer to the new corporate body the arms previously granted, on 29/9/1984, to the Company in its unincorporated state (College reference Grants 147/337). The transfer was recorded here with the reference Additions to Records 5/10. |
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Grants of arms by other jurisdictions recorded. The following grants or matriculations of arms made by heraldic authorities within the Commonwealth have been entered on record at the College of Arms so as to license the grantees to use the arms in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
CAMERON OF ALLANGRANGE Ewen James Hanning, younger. Quarterly arms, crest and motto matriculated at Lyon Court 6/4/1980. Recorded July 2004 with the reference Scotland 5/80.
HALL Graeme John Leonard. Arms, crest and motto granted by the Chief Herald of Canada 10/1/1995. Recorded August 2004 with the reference Canada 1/12.
WILMONT Barry Lereng. Arms, crest and motto granted by the Chief Herald of Canada 20/2/2004. Recorded August 2004 with the reference Canada 1/14.
Recent and forthcoming
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Two appearances on BBC 2. On 12 June Patric Dickinson (Richmond) took part in the final episode of ‘The Rise of the Celebrity Class’, talking about the coats of arms he designed for Cliff Richard and Elton John in the 1980s. On 17 October, in ‘Motherland – Moving On’ (a programme whose starting point was the use of DNA to explore the origins of black Britons) he was shown helping the descendant of a Jamaican slave-owner trace her white relations. The First Hundred Years of New Zealand Heraldry. On 20 October David White (Somerset) lectured on this topic to the Heraldry Society. Visit of The Richard III Society. On 17 November members of The Richard III Society with their patron HRH the Duke of Gloucester, KG, made an evening visit to the College of Arms where they were shown the records and collections by William Hunt (Windsor). |
The State Opening of Parliament. Her Majesty the Queen will open Parliament at Westminster on 23 November. The Officers of Arms in ordinary and extraordinary will be in attendance.
Music in Heraldry: the Heraldry Society Constance Egan Lecture. On 24 November Henry Bedingfeld (York) will deliver the 2004 Constance Egan Lecture to the Heraldry Society, at the premises of the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, on the theme of ‘Music in Heraldry’.
The Armorial of Haiti: a St Andrew’s Day Lecture. On 27 November Clive Cheesman (Rouge Dragon Pursuivant) will give the 2004 St Andrew’s Day Lecture to the Heraldry Society of Scotland in Edinburgh, on the topic of the ‘Armorial Général du Royaume d’Hayti’ which the College plans to publish next year.
Relevant Publications
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Officers of the College of Arms were responsible for writing or revising a total of 50 entries in the new DNB which was published on 23 September; all are listed in the bibliography on the College website. In addition, Robert Yorke, College archivist, contributed three entries, and seven articles by the late Michael Maclagan, formerly Richmond Herald, were retained from earlier supplement volumes, bringing the total College of Arms contribution to 60. The entries recount the lives not only of former heralds, but a wide range of antiquaries, scholars, architects, adventurers, spies and one self-proclaimed king. Seventy-three former officers of arms are included in the Dictionary as subjects, as well as four deputy heralds and six other individuals employed by or at the College of Arms, and 100 articles cite manuscripts held in the College as sources.
Bartolomé Bermejo. A learned article by Timothy Noad, herald painter at the College of Arms, on the great Cordoban master Bermejo and the strong Flemish influences on his work, appeared in L’Ancora, the local newspaper of Acqui Terme in Italy, 26 September, p 19. The cathedral of Acqui Terme houses a splendid triptych by Bermejo.
The ‘Coat of Arms’. Clive Cheesman (Rouge Dragon) and Peter O’Donoghue (research assistant at the College of Arms) have been appointed joint editors of The Coat of Arms, the journal of the Heraldry Society. This appointment coincides with certain planned changes in the style and character of the journal which will come into effect with the Spring 2005 issue.