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The Worshipful Company of Security Pro-fessionals: On 2 May 2008 this
company became the City of London's newest Livery
Company. It received its certificate of Livery
from the Lord Mayor in a ceremony at the Mansion
House; on the same day at Guildhall William Hunt,
Windsor Herald, presented the Letters Patent by
which the Company was granted Supporters to its
Arms.
The Letters Patent, which were signed and sealed by
Garter King of Arms, are dated 1 August 2007.
College reference: Grants 173/14.
Arms: Party per fess indented acute Or and Azure
three Portcullises chained counterchanged.
Crest: Upon a Helm with a Wreath Or and Azure A
Unicorn forcene Argent armed maned tufted and
unguled Or the dexter forehoof enfiling the hasp of
a Padlock Azure the sinister supporting a
Terrestrial Globe Or the oceans Azure. Mantled
Azure doubled Or. Badge (not shown): A Portcullis
chained Or within an Annulet the outer edge potenty
Azure.
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The new Supporters are blazoned On the dexter a
Dragon Azure armed langued winged and gorged with a
plain Collar attached thereto a Chain reflexed over
the back and holding in the sinister foreclaws a Key
wards uppermost Or on the sinister a Griffin Azure
armed langued beaked winged and holding in the
dexter claws a Lightning Flash Or.
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The Dering Roll:
The British Library is making considerable progress with its
campaign to retain in Britain this important medieval roll of arms.
To date the Library has received grants of £10,000 from both The
Friends of the National Libraries and The Friends of the British
Library along with a recent grant award of £40,000 from the Art
Fund. A further application for funding has also been submitted to
the National Heritage Memorial Fund for a major grant to help save
this national treasure, on which a decision will be made towards the
end of June. Alongside this the Library has received numerous
individual donations and pledges towards the appeal, which have made
an invaluable contribution, and provided a huge boost to the
Library’s fundraising efforts, showing the strength of feeling and
support towards the campaign to keep the Dering Roll in the UK.
The
deadline to secure the funding for the Dering Roll remains the 19th
July 2008 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 at the
British Library.
All contributions will be most gratefully received.
A
very small selection of those recently receiving grants or
exemplifications from the English Kings of Arms:
BELL,
Sir Peter Robert Frank, of Oadby, Leicestershire, Knight. Arms,
Crest and Badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 20/12/2007.
College reference: Grants 173/81.
BENNET,
Peter Douglas, of Bellingham, Northumberland. Arms and Crest. Garter
and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 30/11/2007. College reference:
Grants 173/72.
THE BIRMINGHAM CIVIC SOCIETY.
Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster
Kings of Arms. 15/10/2007. College reference: Grants 173/22.
HAMEED,
Khalid (Hameed), Baron, of Hampstead in the London Borough of
Camden, CBE, DL. Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter King of Arms.
20/12/2007. College reference: Grants 173/89.
HESSAYON,
David Gerald, of Halstead, Essex, OBE. Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter
and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 19/11/2007. College reference: Grants
173/70.
JATANIA,
Devshi Ramji, of Denham, Buckinghamshire. Arms, Crest and Badge.
Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 1/9/2007. College reference:
Grants 173/50.
KEENE,
Raymond Dennis, of the London Borough of Wandsworth. Arms, Crest and
Badge. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 1/5/2007. College
reference: Grants 173/10.
MEREDITH,
John Edward Wenham, of the Special Administrative Region of Hong
Kong, People’s Republic of China. Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter,
Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 22/10/2007. College
reference: Grants 173/33.
RANA,
Diljit Singh (Rana), Baron, of Malone, co. Antrim. Arms, Crest,
Badge and Supporters. Garter King of Arms. 12/3/2007. College
reference: Ireland Ulster Grants 4/221.
REYNOLDS,
Caroline Susan, of Carnforth, Lancashire, DL, wife of Richard James
Gillow Reynolds and daughter of Geoffrey Terence Kenyon late of
Farley, Berkshire. Arms and Badge. Garter and Norroy and Ulster
Kings of Arms. 6/11/2007. College reference: Grants 173/62.
RYDER,
Caroline Jane, commonly called Viscountess Sandon, wife of Dudley
Adrian Conroy Ryder of Burnt Norton, Gloucestershire, commonly
called Viscount Sandon, and daughter of Geoffrey Jack Marks late of
Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Arms. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of
Arms. 4/7/2007. College reference: Grants 173/4.
SMITH,
Peter David, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cardiff and
Metropolitan of the Roman Catholic Province of Cardiff, son of
Cuthbert Edward Gregory Smith, late of Streatham in the London
Borough of Lambeth, deceased. Limitations of grant extended to
include other descendants of his late father. Arms and Crest. Garter
and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 14/11/2007. College reference: Grants
173/77.
SUNDERLAND,
Sir John Michael, of Elstead, Surrey, Knight. Arms, Crest and Badge.
Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 12/10/2007. College reference:
Grants 173/12.
TURNER,
Alan, of Great Brickhill, Buckinghamshire, CBE. Arms and Crest.
Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 8/1/2008. College reference:
Grants 173/84.
UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA.
Arms, Crest and Supporters. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster
Kings of Arms. 23/10/2007. College reference: Grants 173/30.
WILLIAMS,
Paul Michael, of the City and County of Cardiff, OBE. Arms and
Crest. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 27/9/2007. College
reference: Grants 173/24.
Their Royal Highnesses Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York
visited the College of Arms on 8 April and were received by Peter
Gwynn-Jones, Garter King of Arms. They inspected and signed their
entries in this College of Arms official record volume entitled
‘Descendants of Queen Victoria’. This important volume bears the
signatures of nearly all members of the Royal Family.
His Royal Highness Prince Michael of
Kent visited the College of Arms on 23 June for the same
purpose and was likewise received by Garter King of Arms.
St Peter’s Trust for Kidney, Bladder and Prostate Research:
on 10 June 2008 Peter Gwynn-Jones, Garter King of Arms, addressed a
reception for
this charity, of which Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester is Patron, held at the College of Arms.
Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2008:
This
event took place at Olympia in London on 2-4 May. The College of
Arms stand was visited by hundreds of members of the public, whose
enquiries about many aspects of heraldry and genealogy were answered
by the staff present. The stand also provided an opportunity to see
some of our highly-skilled heraldic artists at work. During the
show, Patric Dickinson, Richmond Herald, spoke in the Society of
Genealogists’ lecture theatre on the subject of ‘The Heralds and the
College of Arms – family history resources’. Peter O’Donoghue,
Bluemantle Pursuivant, appeared in a live Who Do You Think You
Are? event tracing the ancestors of Tony Robinson, actor and
television presenter.
Guild of One Name Studies:
Peter O’Donoghue spoke at the Conference of this
association, which was held on 5 April in Bideford, Devon, on
the subject of ‘Genealogical records at the College of Arms’.
The Order of the Garter:
the annual service of the
Order took place on 16 June 2007 at St George’s Chapel, Windsor
Castle, in the presence of its Sovereign, Her Majesty The Queen. His
Royal Highness Prince William of Wales was installed as a Knight
Companion of the Order, as were The Lord Luce, GCVO, DL, former Lord
Chamberlain to Her Majesty, and Sir Thomas Dunne, KCVO. The Officers
of Arms were in attendance.
Friends of The National Archives:
Clive Cheesman, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, was on 17 June 2008
appointed Chairman of
this body, which raises the profile of the British public
records and supports the work of The National Archives. It
undertakes indexing projects, and publishes a journal.
BARTON:
a
three-generation pedigree showing the descendants of David Garbutt
Barton of Herne Bay, Kent, who married (in 1961) Bernice Ann,
daughter of George Birnie Banton of Herne Bay. Cross-referenced to
Surrey 30/31. College reference: Surrey 31/309.
FISHER:
a five-generation pedigree descending to the present day and headed
by Thomas Fisher, Clerk in Holy Orders, Rector of Fermoneeny,
Knockloughrin, co. Londonderrry (born 1848), and by his wife
Elizabeth Jane, daughter of John Oliver Thompson of Crosby,
Liverpool, Lancashire. Connected with WILLIAMS-FISHER.
Cross-referenced to Irish Record Pedigrees 28/245, 465; Ulster
Pedigrees 2/7. College reference: Norfolk 51/113.
KEEVIL:
a pedigree of seven generations showing a descent to the present day
from Peter Keevil of North Bradley, Wiltshire, yeoman. He married
Mary daughter of John Joyce of Beckington, Somerset in 1839.
Connected with HEMS of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. College
reference: Norfolk 51/110.
MENDES DA COSTA:
a pedigree of four generations showing the descendants of Judah
Mendes da Costa (born 1887) and of his wife Esther, daughter of
Jonas Ellis, whom he married on 10 November 1910 at West Ham, Essex.
Connected with the family of LEVINE, afterwards LEVERE.
Cross-referenced to Norfolk 44/16 and Surrey 23/255. College
reference: Norfolk 51/105.
RUGGLES-BRISE:
a pedigree has been recorded which sets out the succession to the
baronetcy of Ruggles-Brise, from Sir John Archibald Ruggles-Brise,
of Spain’s Hall, Finchingfield, Essex, to his nephew Sir Timothy
Edward Ruggles-Brise. Cross-referenced to Baronets’ Pedigrees 13/21.
College reference: Baronets’ Pedigrees 15/3.
SPEED:
three generations of this family are headed by Francis Elmer Speed
of Knowlton, Kent. He married on 31 December 1889 at S Paul’s,
Knightsbridge, Kensington, Elinor daughter of Frederick Richards
Leyland of Prince’s Gate, Kensington, and of Woolton Hall in the
City of Liverpool, Lancashire. Connected with FOX-PITT of Knowlton.
Cross-referenced to Norfolk 40/244. College reference: Surrey
31/310.
Gemmological Association of Great Britain:
a Royal Licence was granted to the newly incorporated body
permitting it to bear and use the Arms and Crest granted by Letters
Patent of the Kings of Arms dated 20 February 1967 to a former body
of the same name. College reference:
I.85/217.
The Certificate of the Kings of Arms exemplifying the Arms to the
new body was dated 18 January 2008. College reference: Grants
173/95.
 Stowe
School Limited:
a Badge was granted to this school by Letters Patent of Garter,
Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms, dated 12 November
2007. The Badge is to be used by the school’s first girls’ boarding
house, which was formally opened by Her Majesty The Queen in
November 2007 and named Queen’s House.
The
Badge is blazoned A Representation of Sir John Vanbrugh’s Rotunda
at Stowe Or issuing from between the pillars thereof a Rose Gules
barbed and seeded proper between a Shamrock issuing to the dexter
and a Thistle issuing to the sinister all with slips conjoined and
leaved also proper.
College reference: Standards 5/114. |
