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Welcome to the fourth 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.
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Left: the badge of the Civil Nuclear Constabulary,
newly approved by Her Majesty the Queen. See
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Bluemantle Pursuivant.
On 17 January, on successful completion of a period of probation,
Michael Peter Desmond O’Donoghue was appointed to the vacant post of
Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms. Peter O’Donoghue is a graduate of
Cambridge University and has worked for several years as a
genealogist and researcher, including time spent as research
assistant to two Windsor Heralds (the late Theo Mathew and William
Hunt).
A small
selection of those recently receiving grants or exemplifications
from the English kings of arms:
BRIERS
Richard David, CBE. Arms, crest and badge. Garter and Clarenceux
Kings of Arms, 17/5/2004. College reference: Grants 170/90.
CUE Clare
Deborah. Arms and badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms,
19/12/2003. College reference: Grants: 170/116.
FARNATH
Antony Christopher Harley, Sqn-Ldr RAFVR. Arms, crest and badge.
Also arms and badge for his wife Virginia Susan Farnath (formerly
Virginia Susan Leaning). Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms,
20/8/2004. College reference: Grants 170/96.
FISHER
John Holwell, MBE, Lt-Col Royal Corps of Signals. Arms and crest.
Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms, 4/11/2004. College reference:
Grants: 170/120.
FRAYLING
Sir Christopher John, Kt. Arms, crest and badge. Garter and
Clarenceux Kings of Arms, 15/12/2004. College reference: Grants:
170/155. See the
College website for an illustration and blazon of these ensigns.
GOODMAN
Sir Patrick Ledger, of Motueka in New Zealand, OM (NZ), Kt, CBE.
Supporters. Garter King of Arms, 30/9/2004. College reference:
Grants: 170/142.
GRIFFITHS OF BURRY PORT
Leslie John (Griffiths), Baron. Arms, crest and supporters. Garter
King of Arms, 5/1/2005. College reference: Grants: 170/167.
GUILD OF INTERNATIONAL BANKERS.
Arms, crest and supporters. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy & Ulster
Kings of Arms, 26/72004. College reference: Grants: 170/139.
GUY Sir
Roland Kelvin, GCB, CBE, DSO, General in the Army. Supporters.
Garter King of Arms, 12/1/2005. College reference: Grants: 170/171.
HART OF CHILTON
Garry Richard Rushby (Hart), Baron. Arms, crest, supporters and
badge. Garter King of Arms, 18/11/2004. College reference: Grants:
170/132.
HICHENS
Antony Peverell, RD, Lt-Cdr RNR, and other descendants of his father
Robert Peverell Hichens DSO DSC, Lt-Cdr RNVR deceased. Arms and
crest. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms, 16/12/2004. College
reference: Grants: 170/157.
KALMS
Harold Stanley (Kalms), Baron. Arms, crest and supporters. Garter
King of Arms, 10/11/2004. College reference: Grants: 170/144.
KENWORTHY-NEALE
Gordon, of Acton, Tasmania, RD, Capt RNR. Arms and crest. Garter,
Clarenceux and Norroy & Ulster Kings of Arms, 15/11/2004. College
reference: Grants: 170/130.
LEUPOLD-CHRISTIAN
Anthony Clive (formerly Anthony Clive Christian), clerk in Holy
Orders, Vicar of Pevensey. Exemplification of quarterly arms for
Christian and Leupold after a Royal Licence dated 17/12/2003. Garter
and Clarenceux Kings of Arms, 19/11/2004. College reference: Grants
170/135.
MACNICHOL
Alistair Ross. Arms, crest and badge. Also arms for his wife Joanne
Elizabeth MacNichol (formerly Joanne Elizabeth Baker). Garter and
Clarenceux Kings of Arms, 20/10/2004. College reference: Grants:
170/107.
OFFER
Clifford Jocelyn, clerk in Holy Orders, Archdeacon of Norwich and
Canon residentiary and librarian of Norwich Cathedral. Arms, crest
and badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms, 8/10/2004. College
reference: Grants: 170/100.
ROCHE
Arthur, clerk in Orders of the Church of Rome and Roman Catholic
Bishop of Leeds. Arms. Garter and Norroy & Ulster Kings of Arms,
29/10/2004. College reference: Grants: 170/118.
SHARPE
David Thomas, OBE. Arms, crest and badge. Garter and Norroy & Ulster
Kings of Arms, 12/2/2004. College references: Grants 170/94.
TAX ADVISERS
Company of. Supporters. Garter King of Arms, 10/12/2004. College
reference: Grants 170/159.
A very small
selection of pedigrees recently entered into the College’s official
records:
BERRY of
Gainsborough, co Lincoln. A four-generation pedigree from 1909 to
the present day with connected branches of the Sisson and Dye
families. College reference: Surrey 31/194.
DARBISHIRE
of Glenycoed, Dwygyfylchi, co Carnarvon. A four-generation pedigree
showing descendants of.Vernon Darbishire, JP (born 1832, died 1878).
Cross-referenced back to Norfolk 10/114. College reference: Surrey
31/193.
FOSBERY
of Kildimoe and Curraghbridge, co Limerick, Donnybrook, co Dublin,
and the island of St Kitts. A thirteen-generation pedigree down to
the present day showing the descent of the family from Sir Thomas
Coningsby of Dela Bury, co Worcester, Kt 1591, and Henry Gorges of
Bascombe, co Somerset, who died in 1648/9, by way of the families of
Hathway and Godfrey. Cross-referenced back to C22/364, C25/97v,
I.16/302, Norfolk 2/143, 5/89, 8/31 and 24/184, Irish Registered
pedigrees 19/177 and 183/69. College reference: Norfolk 51/33.
NAYLER of
The Grange, Dudley, co Worcester. A four-generation pedigree showing
the descendants of John Ashwin Nayler (born 1901, died 1977)
including branches of the Barrett and Renouf families.
Cross-referenced back to Norfolk 50/188. College reference: Norfolk
51/24
SHERIDAN
of Mobberley, co Chester, and Grimsby, co Lincoln. A
seven-generation pedigree from 1871 to the present day.
Cross-referenced to Grants 166/57. College reference: Norfolk 51/8.
WHITLEY.
A five-generation pedigree showing the descendants of William
Whitley, barrister of the Inner Temple (born 1830, died 1912).
Cross-referenced back to Norfolk 34/110 and Peers 10/98. College
reference: Surrey 31/198.
Royal Warrant of Precedence.
On 3 September 2004 Her Majesty granted a warrant of precedence to
Charles George Yule Balfour, younger brother of Roderic Francis
Arthur, fifth Earl of Balfour, according him the style, title and
precedence of the younger son of an earl, such as he would have
enjoyed had his father lived to inherit the earldom. The warrant was
recorded with the reference I.85/176.
Courtesy titles of adopted children.
As recorded in the second newsletter (August 2004), a Royal Warrant
of 30 April 2004 directed that adopted children of peers would in
future be entitled to the courtesy titles of younger sons and
daughters of their adoptive parents. A similar Royal Warrant of the
same date addressed to Lord Lyon King of Arms has now been recorded
here with the reference Miscellaneous Enrolments 2/60.
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary.
Her Majesty the Queen has approved a badge for the Civil Nuclear
Constabulary (see above), a newly established police force under the
Department of Trade and Industry. The central element is a salient
griffin, which will form a prominent part of the coat of arms of the
Civil Nuclear Police Authority when that body comes into being later
this year under the terms of the Energy Act 2004.
Death of Peter Spurrier (formerly York Herald).
On 11 January, Peter Brotherton Spurrier died at the age of 62. He
was appointed Portcullis Pursuivant in 1981 and York Herald in 1992.
He retired from the College of Arms in May 1993.
White Lion Society Annual General Meeting.
The White Lion Society (the friends’ organization of the College of
Arms) held its A.G.M. at St Benet’s Church, Queen Victoria Street,
London, on 18 January. The meeting was followed by a reception at
the College, at which members had a chance to see some of the
records and collections, and hear a presentation by Christopher
Harvey, head of the College’s Conservation Department.
The Tournament.
Broadcast on 19 February, Channel 4’s programme ‘The Tournament’
included an interview with the historian Dr Juliet Barker, conducted
in the Record Room of the College of Arms and illustrated by the
Westminster Tournament Roll, which was exhibited by Robert Yorke,
College archivist.
The Heralds’ Visitation of London, 1687.
On 25 February Dr Tim Wales, co-editor of the forthcoming Harleian
Society edition of the 1687 London Visitation, spoke on this subject
in the Institute of Historical Research seminar series ‘The Economic
and Social History of Pre-Industrial England’. The weekly seminar
takes place at the I.H.R., University of London Senate House, Malet
Street, London, at 5.15 pm.
Civil Registration: regulatory reform abandoned.
In the first newsletter (May 2004) reference was made to a draft
regulatory reform order and accompanying discussion document on the
registration of births, marriages and deaths produced by the Office
of National Statistics. After a period of consultation (in which
submissions are said to have been received from more than 3400
respondents) the ONS presented a revised draft order and explanatory
document in July 2004; both may be read on the
ONS website. In December, however, after considering the draft
and taking further written and oral evidence, the two parliamentary
Regulatory Reform Committees presented their findings that the
proposed reform should be abandoned. Prominent among the reasons
given by both committees was the strong feeling that regulatory
reform (a form of delegated legislation) was an inappropriate method
for the introduction of such important changes as were proposed. The
report of the Commons Regulatory Reform Committee may be read
here; that of the Lords Committee
here.
40th Anniversary of the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill.
On 24 January 1965 the Rt Hon Sir Winston Churchill, KG. OM, CH,
died, precisely 70 years after the death of his father Lord Randolph
Churchill. His body lay in state in Westminster Hall for three days
starting on the morning of 27 January, during which time 321,360
persons visited to pay their respects. The State Funeral, which had
of course been planned for many years, took place at St Paul’s
Cathedral on 30 January, the principal part in the organization
being taken by the Earl Marshal and the Heralds under his direction.
Afterwards, the body was taken by river and train to Bladon church
in Oxfordshire, where it was interred. This was the first State
Funeral for a person other than the Sovereign since that of the
first Duke of Wellington in 1852. Television coverage of the funeral
was recently broadcast again to mark the anniversary, and original
documents relating to the event can be seen on the website of the
National Archives. At the Cabinet War Rooms, in the mean time, a
Churchill Museum has recently opened, under the aegis of the
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