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Nelson’s Heraldry: The exhibition about Nelson’s heraldry currently on show in the Earl Marshal’s Court has now been augmented by a re-creation of Nelson’s uniform, comprising full dress coat, waistcoat and hat. The coat was fashioned by Ede and Ravenscroft (the well-known firm of robemakers) from a detailed study of the undress coat worn by Nelson at Trafalgar, preserved at the National Maritime Museum. Visible in the photograph (left) are the four stars he wore at the time of his death: top, the Order of the Bath; middle left, the Neapolitan Order of St Ferdinand and Merit; middle right, the Ottoman Order of the Star and Crescent; and bottom, the bogus Order of St Joachim created and hawked around the Courts of Europe by ‘Sir’ Levett Hanson. In January it is intended to expand the section of the display relating to Nelson’s state funeral, which took place at St. Paul’s Cathedral on 9 January 1806. Sir Isaac Heard, Garter King of Arms, was responsible for organizing the ceremonial of the funeral. The exhibition will continue until 31 January 2006 and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday. |
Anthony Powell Society: On 30 November and 2 December 2005 an unusual use was made of the Earl Marshal’s Court when it was converted into a temporary auditorium for rehearsed readings of The Garden God, a little-known play by the novelist Anthony Powell, the centenary of whose birth falls on 21 December.
An exhibition about the life and work of Anthony Powell is being staged at the Wallace Collection until 5 February 2006, and an associated conference (organized by the Anthony Powell Society) was held there on 2 and 3 December. Patric Dickinson, Richmond Herald, is Chairman of the Anthony Powell Society, and it was he who arranged the readings, principally as an entertainment for conference delegates. The performances were given by members of the Bar Theatrical Society along with two young professional actors.
Anthony Powell was a keen genealogist, who visited the College periodically from the 1930s to the 1970s. He was granted arms in 1944 but later managed to establish a male-line descent from Llywelyn Crugeryr (living in Radnorshire in the 14th century), which gave him an entitlement to the simple arms Sable an Eagle displayed Argent. He was a friend of Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms, with whom he had professional dealings from the 1950s onwards.
Wagner was doubtless responsible for persuading Powell to lend his name to a letter published in The Times in March 1971 complaining about the proposed installation of street lamps immediately outside the College building. The other nineteen signatories included John Betjeman, Osbert Lancaster and Nikolaus Pevsner, but their protest was to no avail. The lamps were duly erected, and they remain there to this day.Recently Recorded Pedigrees
BASSET of Stratton, co. Cornwall. A pedigree of seven generations showing descent from John Basset of Stratton and of Mayfair, co. Middlesex (born 1791), a writer on Cornish mining. Cross referenced to Peers 4/57, Peers 9/254, Baronets Pedigrees 3/290. College reference: Norfolk 51/50.
BLAKE (formerly LYNCH) of Ballinrobe co Mayo and Belmont House co Galway. A four-generation pedigree showing the descent of Anne Jane Blake (died 1868), wife of Edward Harwood of Durell Villa, Torre, co Devon, from James CUFF of Elm Hall co Mayo, MP. Cross-references to Grants 49/348, Norfolk 47/132, Irish Record Pedigrees 14/296 and Irish Peers Pedigrees 186/66. College reference: Surrey 31/249.
CARY (formerly COXON). A five-generation pedigree showing the descent of the children of Henry John Edward Cary (born 1951) of Brograve Farm, Sea Balling co Norfolk, from his great-grandfather Lionel Henry St Croix Cary (formerly Coxon) of Torre Abbey, co Devon. Cross-references to Surrey 1/156, I.77/287 and Grants 85/40. College reference: Surrey 31/248.
COTTRELL of Laurendon Forstal, Challock Lees co Kent. A three-generation pedigree showing the issue of Michael Noel Francis Cottrell (died 1996) by his wife Amanda Arianwen Cecilia, daughter of Stafford Vaughan Stepney HOWARD of Algar’s Garth, Greystoke, co Cumberland. Cross-references back to Surrey 9/136 and I.78/304. College reference: Surrey 31/251.
HARRISON of Georgia and Texas, USA. A pedigree of seven generations headed by Rebekah, wife of Thomas Ansley otherwise Ainsley of Warren County, Georgia, a prisoner of the American revolutionary forces in 1779. It descends via her son Benjamin Harrowson or Harrison of Warren County (died 1836). College reference: Norfolk 51/46.
HOWSON. Five-generation pedigree showing the descent of Frank Eugene Howson (born 1944) of Soudeilles in the departement of Corrèze, France, from his great-great-grandfather Robert BARLOW of Tyldesley, co pal Lancaster weaver. College reference: Surrey 31/247.
POTTER of Buile Hill and Pendleton near Manchester, of Manchester, co. Lancaster, and of London. Five generation pedigree headed by Sir Thomas Potter (born 1774). Connected with KINGSCOTE of Kingscote, co. Gloucester and of Rahoon, co. Galway. Cross-referenced to Surrey 15/201. College reference: Norfolk 51/51.
RIGGE of Hawkshead, co. Lancaster and elsewhere. A pedigree of eleven generations showing the descent from Clement Rigge of Hawkshead (buried 1727/8). Descends via Gray Rigge of Wood Broughton, Cartmel, co. Westmorland and of Leyburn co. York (born 1783). Connected to MOORE of Westmorland and to MOORE of Stockwell, co. Surrey. Cross-referenced to C37/126 and 5D14/110. College reference: Norfolk 51/59.Elsewhere in the Records
President of the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court:
A Royal
Warrant dated 30 September 2005 relating to the precedence of the
President of the Queen’s Bench Division has been recorded, following
the separation of that office from that of the Lord Chief Justice of
England and Wales. The President is to have precedence immediately
before that of the President of the Family Division. College
reference:
I.85/185.
St Andrews 2006
The 27th International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences, 21-6 August 2006: The 2006 International Congress will be held at St Andrews in Scotland, on the theme of 'Myth and Propaganda in Heraldry and Genealogy', under the patronage of HRH The Princess Royal, and the presidency of Charles Burnett, Ross Herald, one of the Scottish officers of arms. Clive Cheesman, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, is a member of the Congress scientific committee. For full details relating to the congress, go to www.congress2006.com.