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Illustrated left are the Arms and Crest
granted to Michael John
HUXLEY-EVANS
of Edgbaston, in the City of Birmingham, by Letters
Patent of Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms dated
28 October 2010.
Arms: Per fess nebuly Sable and Ermine in chief a
Rose Argent barbed and seeded proper within a wreath
of Thorns Or in base three Boar’s Heads erased Sable
armed Or.
Crest: Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Sable
Upon a Grassy Mount Vert a Lion rampant reguardant
Or resting the dexter hindpaw upon three Books
fesswise Gules edged and clasped Or and holding in
the forepaws a Long Cross flory gyronny of eight
Argent and Sable. Mantled Sable doubled Argent.
College reference: Grants 175/160.
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Benet Paul’s Wharf:
the Reverend Aneirin Glyn, Curate at St Helen’s Bishopsgate, has
been appointed priest in charge of St Benet’s church (left),
for centuries the heralds’ church, as well as the Welsh church for
London. He was formally installed by The Right Reverend Richard
Chartres, Bishop of London, in a service on 2 October 2011. Details
of services at the church, including those in Welsh, may be seen
here.
Flowers in the City:
Mr and Mrs Fowler, porter and handyman to the College, have created,
and maintained for many years, a beautiful courtyard garden at the
College. They have now for the third time been awarded the prize for
Best Courtyard, in the prestigious Flowers in the City awards scheme
organized by the Corporation of the City of London and the
Worshipful Company of Gardeners. They were previously winners in
2006.
A very small selection of those
recently receiving grants or exemplifications from the English Kings
of Arms:
ADAMS,
Michael Charles, of Clifton-upon-Dunsmore, Warwickshire. Arms and
Crest. Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 25/8/2010. College
reference: Grants 175/283.
ARNOLD-BAKER,
Edith May, of the City of London. Arms. Garter and Clarenceux Kings
of Arms. 3/11/2010. College reference: Grants 175/268.
BLEWETT,
James, of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter,
Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 12/7/2011. College
reference: Grants 175/307.
BRANSCOM,
Randal Scott, of Tulare, California, USA. Honorary Arms and Crest.
Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 29/7/2011.
College reference: Grants 175/328.
BROOMAN,
Thomas Sebastian, of Bristol, CBE. Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter and
Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 15/7/2011. College reference: 175/322.
COATES,
Michael Joseph, of The Hague, The Netherlands. Arms, Crest and
Badge. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms.
19/5/2011. College reference: Grants 175/300.
COOPER,
Paul David, of Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia. Arms and Crest
[CHECK]. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms.
20/5/2011. College reference: Grants 175/291.
HENNESSY OF NYMPSFIELD,
Peter John (Hennessy), Baron, of Nympsfield, Gloucestershire. Arms,
Crest and Supporters. Garter King of Arms. 30/6/2011. College
reference: Grants 175/309.
INSTITUTE AND FACULTY OF ACTUARIES.
Arms, Crest and Supporters in substitution for those previously
granted to the Institute of Actuaries in 1956. Garter, Clarenceux
and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 15/5/2011. College reference:
Grants 175/338.
LANGLOIS,
John Emile, of the Island of Guernsey, OBE. Arms and Crest. Garter
and Clarenceux Kings of Arms. 4/1/2011. College reference: Grants
175/289.
LEES-JONES,
William Richard, of Lower Peover, Cheshire, TD, son of Richard
William Lees-Jones late of Hale, Cheshire, deceased. Arms, Crest and
Badge. Limitations extended to the other descendants of his late
father. Garter and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 19/8/2011.
College reference: Grants 175/348.
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right are the Arms lately granted
to Wendy MEAD,
of the London Borough of Hackney, Sheriff of the City of London, by
Letters Patent of Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms dated 30 March
2011.
The Arms are blazoned: Per fess enhanced Argent and Sable a Pale
and a Chevron all counterchanged between three Bees volant proper.
College reference: Grants 175/336.
OPEN UNIVERSITY.
Arms, Crest and Supporters in substitution for those previously
granted to the Open University in 1971. Garter, Clarenceux and
Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 15/6/2011. College reference:
Grants 175/341.
SATYANAND,
Sir Anand, of Wellington, New Zealand, GNZM, QSO. Arms, Crest and
Supporters. Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms.
6/1/2011. College reference: Grants 175/293.
SOMMERVILLE,
Alan, of Higham, Derbyshire, OBE. Arms, Crest and Badge. Garter and
Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 17/5/2011. College reference:
Grants 175/287.
Baronets’ 400th Anniversary Dinner:
this occasion on 16 November 2011 at Vintners’ Hall in the City of
London was to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the
first baronetcy creations by James I in 1611; it was organized by
the
Standing Council of the Baronetage. Thomas Woodcock, Garter King
of Arms, was principal guest and spoke on the theme of the
Baronetage and the past 400 years.
Worshipful Company of Environmental Cleaners:
on 25 November 2011 William Hunt, Windsor Herald, presented a Royal
Charter to this livery company of the City of London at a ceremony
at Drapers’ Hall to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the
grant of livery.
The Eighteenth Century at the College of Arms:
Peter O’Donoghue, Bluemantle Pursuivant, gave a lecture with this
title prior to the Annual Dinner of Somerset Heraldry Society at
Rowlands, Somerset on 26 October 2011.
The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire:
on 10 December 2011 Clive Cheesman, Richmond Herald, delivered the
Neville Hoskins Lecture to this learned
society on the theme 'Early corporate heraldry and identity in
Nottinghamshire’.
MAPLES:
a pedigree of five generations shows a descent to the present day
from William Maples, who married in 1870 Lucy Harriet daughter of
William Cradock Wilkinson of Spalding, Lincolnshire. College
reference: Norfolk 51/207.
MARSH:
a pedigree registers five generations showing a descent from Sir
Percy William Marsh of Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (born 1881)
and Joan Mary his wife, daughter of Philip Wesley Beecroft of
Yardley, Worcestershire. Cross-referenced to Irish Recorded
Pedigrees 28/217. College reference: Surrey 32/69.
PARSONS
and
ANGELL-PARSONS:
a pedigree records the descent to the present of this family from
Henry Parsons of Birmingham (born 1883) and from Florence Beatrice
his wife. She was the daughter of Henry Thomas Perry, by Sarah
Elizabeth his wife, daughter of William Henry Angell. College
reference: Norfolk 51/201.
John Zephaniah Holwell
of Mount Foelix at Walton upon Thames, Surrey, late Governor of Fort
William in Bengal in the East Indies, claimed in his petition to the
Earl Marshal for a grant of Arms, to be descended from the Holwell
family of Holwell in Devon. He asserted that his family had long
used the Arms Or on a Bend Gules three Goats passant Argent
attired Or, but acknowledged that no proof of a right to them
could be made.
He sought therefore a confirmation of the Arms and the grant of a
Crest by Letters Patent of 1 December 1762, the Arms to include a
“memorial of his Gratitude to Heaven, for his wonderful Deliverance
with the few that survived the dreadful Confinement and Suffocation
in the Black Hole Prison in Fort William at Calcutta”. The patent
includes a lengthy recital of Holwell’s version of events during the
siege of Fort William, culminating in the imprisonment during the
night of 20 June 1756.
The Black Hole incident became notorious largely as a result of
Holwell’s publications on the subject. His account, now thought to
be highly embroidered, and owing more to his personal ambition than
to the facts, spurred the transition for the British from a purely
mercantile to an imperial attitude to India.
Siraj
ud-Daula, Nawab of Bengal, was subsequently defeated together with
his French allies by Robert Clive at the battle of Plassey on 23
June 1757.
Arms:
Or on a Bend Gules three Goats passant Argent attired and unguled
Or on a Canton sinister Sable a Human Skull proper. The Motto:
MISERRIMA VIDI.
Crest: On a Wreath of the Colours A Demi Man representing Surajud
Dowla, subah of Bengal, in his complete dress, the left hand resting
on the Head of a Tiger inspired with fury the right grasping a
Scimitar in attitude of striking, the blade broken, all proper; and
over it this Motto: SCUTO DIVINO. |
