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Bonnington Group Plc:
a grant of Arms, Crest, Badge and Supporters was
made to this long-established company of hoteliers
by Letters Patent of Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy
and Ulster Kings of Arms dated 1 October 2007. The
patent recites the history of the company from its
incorporation and acquisition in 1909 of The
Bonnington Hotel in London. College reference:
Grants 172/343.
The Arms are blazoned:
Azure on a Pall reversed between in chief two
Fire-steels palewise the striking edges inwards that
to the sinister reversed Or a Pall reversed Gules.
Crest: Upon a Helm with a Wreath Or and Gules
An Elephant statant Gules holding in the trunk a
Torch Or enflamed proper.
Badge: A Torch Azure enflamed proper between two
Fire-steels palewise the striking edges inwards that
to the sinister reversed Or.
Supporters: To the dexter a Badger and to the
sinister a Beaver Or each holding in the interior
forefoot a Torch Azure enflamed proper.
Motto: SEMPER ACCEPTUS |
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Welcome
to the sixteenth edition of the College of Arms
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New Lord Lyon:
The
Queen has been pleased, on the recommendation of the First Minister
of the Scottish Executive, to appoint William David Hamilton Sellar
to be Lord Lyon King of Arms, in succession to Robin Blair, LVO, WS
who has held the office of Lord Lyon since 2001. Her Majesty is also
to appoint Mr Sellar to be Secretary of the Most Ancient and Most
Noble Order of the Thistle. David Sellar, aged 67, is a graduate of
the Universities of Oxford (History) and Edinburgh (Law). He
qualified as a solicitor in 1966. He has written on the history of
various branches of Scots law, including marriage, divorce, incest,
homicide and unjust enrichment, and has published on the Lordship of
the Isles and on the origins of many Highland families. He was
appointed Bute Pursuivant of Arms in 2001.
The Dering Roll:
at a sale at Sotheby’s in London on 4 December 2007 the British
Library was able to buy the medieval heraldic manuscript known as
Cooke’s Ordinary, previously in the collection of the late Sir
Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms. At the same auction the Dering
Roll (illustrated above), an important early roll of Arms
from the thirteenth century, also from the Wagner collection, was
sold. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has now announced
a temporary bar on the export of this ‘extraordinary,
iconic object’, and the British Library is leading efforts to
keep it in the country. The British Library has asked all those able
to assist in the fund-raising necessary to purchase the roll for the
nation to contact
Gabrielle Filmer-Pasco.
A
very small selection of those recently receiving grants or
exemplifications from the English Kings of Arms:
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL EDUCATORS.
Arms,
Crest and Supporters. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings
of Arms. 12/10/2007. College reference: Grants 173/1.
BALSOM,
Alison Louise, of Royston, Hertfordshire. Arms. Garter and
Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 30/8/2007. College reference: Grants
172/315.
BALSOM,
Richard John William, of Royston, Hertfordshire. Arms and Crest.
Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 30/8/2007. College reference:
Grants 172/317.
CHELL,
Paul Barrington, of Claverdon, Warwickshire. Arms and Crest. Garter
and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 19/3/2007. College reference: Grants
172/233.
COUSSINS,
Jean Elizabeth (Coussins), Baroness, of the London Borough of
Islington. Arms, Badge and Supporters. Garter King of Arms.
1/8/2007. College reference: Grants 172/280.
CUMMINS,
Sir Michael John Austin, of the City of Westminster, knight. Arms
and Crest. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 7/9/2007. College
reference: Grants 172/329.
DADRAL,
Gudrev Singh, of Iver, Buckinghamshire. Arms, Crest and Badge.
Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 14/9/2006. College reference:
Grants 172/278.
GAILEY,
Andrew Louis Hamilton, of Eton, Windsor, Royal County of Berkshire,
CVO. Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms.
1/6/2007. College reference: Grants 172/294.
GRIFFITHS OF FFORESTFACH,
Brian (Griffiths), Baron, of Fforestfach, West Glamorgan. Arms,
Crest, Badge and Supporters. Garter King of Arms. 24/8/2007. College
reference: Grants 172/210.
HOBBARD-MITCHELL,
Lloyd, of Faversham, Kent, son of Gerald William Maurice Mitchell
and grandson of the late Gerald Roland Hobbard Mitchell, deceased.
The Arms to be placed on a monument to the memory of his ate
grandfather, and the limitations extended to include the latter’s
descendants. Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of
Arms. 1/8/2007. College reference: Grants 172/290.
HULL,
Desmond, of Llangeview, co. Monmouthshire. Arms, Crest and Badge.
Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 11/11/2007. College reference:
Grants 172/276.
KORNICKI,
Richard, of the London Borough of Ealing, CBE. Arms, Crest and
Badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 2/7/2007. College
reference: Grants 172/274.
MERRYWEATHER,
Roger, of Brinkley, Nottinghamshire, TD. Arms, Crest and Badge.
Garter and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 30/8/2007. College
reference: Grants 172/313.
PANIGUIAN,
Richard Leon, of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, CBE.
Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms.
9/7/2007. College reference: Grants 173/6.
ROAD,
Christopher John, of Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth and
of Estrade Bas, Department of Lot-et-Garonne, France. Arms and
Crest. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms.
8/8/2007. College reference: Grants 172/296.
SMITH,
Alan John, of the City of Durham, OBE. Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter
and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 14/9/2007. College reference:
Grants 172/327.
Who Do You Think You Are? Live:
the College of Arms will be represented (Stand 257) at this
significant live genealogical and historical event at Olympia in
London, which will take place on 2-4 May 2008. Full details and
tickets may be had from the show’s
website.
 ‘Patridges:
a history of a prohibition’:
an
article with this title by Clive Cheesman appears in the Spring 2008
issue of The Coat of Arms, journal of
The Heraldry Society. The article traces the sources upon which
medieval heraldic and bestiary writers drew when describing the
characteristics of this bird.
Illustrated left is a detail from Arundel Ms 64 f. 60r in the
College’s collection, with the illustration to the section on
partridges in book 4 of Nicholas Upton’s De Studio Militari.
Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society:
Clive
Cheesman, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, gave a talk to this
long-established
society on 6 March 2007 entitled ‘The Armorial of Haiti’,
referring to the recent
publication by the College of Arms.
BERKLEY-MATTHEWS:
a pedigree shows the children of John Berkley-Matthews of Tisbury,
Wiltshire, and of Susan Margaret Gyde his wife, daughter of Richard
John Gyde Heaven, MC. College reference: Surrey 31/295.
BIRCHENOUGH:
a
pedigree shows six generations of this family headed by John
Birchenough of Macclesfield, Cheshire, who married Elizabeth
daughter of John Taylor. It descends via their son William Taylor
Birchenough. Connected to
POZNIAK. Cross-referenced
to Surrey 15/279. College reference: Norfolk 51/95.
BORRODELL:
a
pedigree of six generations showing the descent of the
DEAN
family from Henry Edwards Borrodell of Mersey, Essex (married 1826),
via the families of
PARKER and
KNEE.
Cross-referenced to 15D14/134. College reference: Norfolk 51/103.
NORRIS:
a four-generation pedigree showing a descent to the present day from
Arthur James Norris of Battersea, London, and Agnes Edith his wife
(married 1914). College reference: Surrey 31/289.
PHIILLIPS:
a four-generation pedigree headed by Eric William Phillips of
Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire (born 1908). Connected to
REYNOLDS
and
CHITTENDEN. College reference: Surrey 31/291.
REEVE:
a
pedigree of four generations descending to the present day and
headed by John Sherard Reeve of Leadenham, Lincolnshire (died 1955).
Cross-referenced to Norfolk 23/89. College reference: Norfolk
51/117.
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Institute of Risk and Safety Management:
a Royal Licence was granted on 7 September 2007 to this newly
incorporated body, permitting it to bear and use the Arms, Crest and
Supporters (illustrated right) granted by Letters Patent of
the Kings of Arms to a former body of the same name dated 25 April
1984. College reference: I.85/213.
Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster duly issued their
Certificate exemplified the Arms to the new body dated 10 October
2007. College reference: Grants 173/68.
Folkestone Town Council:
a Royal Licence was granted to Folkestone Town Council permitting it
to bear and use the Arms, Crest and Supporters granted by Letters
Patent of the Kings of Arms dated 25 July 1958 to the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Folkestone. College
reference: I.85/215.
The three Kings of Arms exemplified the Arms to the newly formed
Town Council by their Certificate dated 30 November 2007. College
reference: Grants 173/83.
Royal Warrant of Precedence:
The Queen has issued a Royal Warrant dated 5 November 2007
establishing that the rank and precedence of the Lord Chief Justice
of England and Wales is to be immediately after the Lord Speaker,
and that of the Master of the Rolls is to be immediately after
Barons of the United Kingdom and Ireland since the Union, including
Life Peers. College reference:
I.85/219 |
