THE HERALDRY
GAZETTE
ISSN 0437 2980
THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER
OF THE HERALDRY SOCIETY
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NEW SERIES 111
March 2009
The Arms of Twyford School; see pp 2&3
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TWYFORD SCHOOL Grant of Arms
by
Ralph Brocklebank
On Friday 23 January 2009, Twyford School near
Winchester celebrated the presentation of its Grant of
Arms, the culmination of a series of events which
started more than 200 years ago. In 1809 the school
moved into its present main building from elsewhere
in the village, and has been there ever since, making it
probably the oldest surviving preparatory school in the
that a grant would be a suitable way to mark the
event. The newly-appointed Bursar, Rob Bosshardt,
was an old navy friend of my son Guy, so I was asked
to advise on procedure, and was lent books giving the
history of the school. First I sent them a copy of my
booklet “How to do Heraldry” and then a suggested
design based on the colours of the Wickham and
Rob Bosshardt (Bursar), Sean Kelly (Chairman of Governors, holding Letters Patent rolled) Robert Noel (Lancaster Herald in court
dress) and Ralph Brocklebank.
country. For most of that time it was owned by the
Wickham family, descendants of the founder of
Winchester School and New College, Oxford, whose
arms (Argent two chevronels Sable between three
roses Gules, with a black bull’s head for a crest) are
well known, and they also provided most of the
headmasters. Another distinguished head was Dr
Kitchin, who used arms: Azure an eagle displayed
Argent. A couple of years ago it was realised that the
200th anniversary of their move was coming up and
would be worth celebrating. In all this time the school
had never had its own coat of arms, and it was thought
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Kitchin arms as a starting point, and finally an
introduction to Robert Noel, Lancaster Herald.
Lancaster proceeded with great diligence, and not
only got the Kings of Arms to approve the suggested
design with very little change, but expedited the
preparation of the Letters Patent so that they would be
ready in time for the celebrations. The arms as granted
are: Argent two Bars Azure each charged with a
Barrulet Or overall a Pale Pean, and for a crest: A
demi-Bull Pean armed and unguled Or winged Argent
supporting between the legs a Saxon Long Cross Azure
pommelled Or.
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ROGER WARNER
The shield simply illustrates the name Twyford,
with a noble road crossing two streams. The golden
barrulets were the only change made by the Kings to
the original proposal, added as a mark of distinction.
The crest uses elements from the Wickham and Kitchin
arms with the addition of a Saxon Long Cross (possibly
an innovation in heraldry) to indicate both the
Christian basis of the school and the fact that a Saxon
burial ground was uncovered when foundations were
being dug for a new building. The motto (literally
“Patience wins”) had been used by the school for some
time, often in the form of an English version, “It’s
dogged as does it” but it was thought that Latin would
be more appropriate for a school that still teaches that
language. The sense of the motto was in connexion
with the fable of the Hare and the Tortoise. The arms
on the Letters Patent (as seen here) were painted by
Chris Collins.
On the day itself, the whole school assembled in
the Sports Hall (the only room large enough) with
some 370 boys and girls aged from 3 to 13, about 50
staff and a few distinguished guests, including Mr
David Wickham, a former Headmaster, and Mr Sean
Kelly, Chairman of the Governors. The proceedings
were opened by Mr David Livingstone, the present
head, who pointed to the new arms projected on a
screen and promised that they would not replace their
beloved Hare and Tortoise emblems. Then Lancaster
Herald, in full court dress, presented the Letters Patent
to Mr Kelly, and after each had said a few encouraging
words, we all dispersed to a festive tea party. It was
felt that the arms represented a real achievement by
the school, in both senses, and there are plans to make
good use of them in a number of ways. It had been a
lovely sunny day, full of good spirits, and will surely be
remembered with great affection by all those who had
been present.
Roger Warner was a leading figure in the world of
antiques and fine art with a career spanning the
golden age of antique dealing and collecting. From an
Elizabethan house in Burford High Street in the
Cotswolds, where he set up shop in 1936, he was in
touch with many of the world’s leading museums and
connoisseurs, contributing to the collections of the
Victoria and Albert Museum, the Ashmolean Museum
in Oxford, the Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia,
George Fox’s home at Swarthmoor Hall in Cumbria,
Temple Newsam House in West Yorkshire, Leeds
(which displays a textile collection under his name)
and Snowshill Manor in Gloucestershire, now the
National Trust’s most visited country house. Indeed, its
eccentric owner Charles Wade proposed partnership
with Warner, recognising a shared eclecticism of taste
and an enthusiasm for the extraordinary.
Private customers included Queen Mary, Princess
Margaret, Walt Disney, Mrs Graham Greene, Bruce
Chatwin, Christopher Fry, Peter Ustinov and Nancy
Lancaster, the designer of gardens and interiors, and
her business partner John Fowler. A special interest in
dolls, dolls’ houses and period costume brought a
special type of customer. Lord Redesdale’s daughters,
the Mitford sisters, were regular Saturday visitors,
embarrassing the young bachelor shopkeeper by
trying on frocks in the middle of the showroom. One
day in 1938 they brought their sister Unity, sporting a
black eye and generally the worse for wear, wanting
“to buy a dress to cheer her up” after she had been
attacked at a Fascist rally in Hyde Park.
Roger Harold Metford Warner’s father died before
his son was born. His grandfather, Metford Warner, ran
Jeffrey & Co, wallpaper manufacturer, which handprinted William Morris’s designs. On his mother’s side
he was descended from the Sowerby family, who were
noted Gateshead glassmakers. His taste was
influenced by an aunt, Olivia Sowerby, the daughter of
the Victorian poet Alice Meynell. Warner’s education
was spasmodic, provided by successive private tutors
through a childhood marked by illness. His only
training in antiques came as a pupil of Fred Wilson, a
lecturer at the V&A, after which he worked briefly at
an antiques shop in Paddington before setting up on
his own.
Warner was a birthright member of the Society of
Friends and devoted himself to Quaker causes. As a
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pacifist he joined the Friends War Victims Relief
Committee in 1940 and helped to set up and equip
evacuation hostels. At the end of the war he ran a
Friends Relief Service team in the Netherlands. His
ethical beliefs undoubtedly coloured his buying and
selling. He was implacably opposed to “the ring”, a
loose and dubious association of dealers who would
agree not to compete at auctions in order to keep
prices artificially low. Their term for him, “the old
Quaker”, implied an eventual if grudging respect. His
reputation for fair pricing brought many private sellers
to his door, particularly the impoverished aristocracy
who would, for example, finance extravagant parties
by getting Warner to buy valuable furnishings on
condition that they were left in the house until the
festivities were over.
Warner never tired of showing customers and
friends around his shop and collection. He was often
as interested in the history of an object as he was in
its quality, and he would clinch deals with a highly
personal showmanship that flattered the customer
and glamourised the article: “I’ve never seen the like
before. And costing you . . .” He was passionate about
antiques, and, like any hunter, lived partly for the thrill
of the chase. It was no doubt this infectious
enthusiasm that led to an invitation in 1965 from
Arthur Negus to appear on Going for a Song, the
forerunner of The Antiques Roadshow, as a visiting
expert alongside two non-expert celebrities. This was
in the heady days of live broadcasting, and Warner
clocked up more than 12 appearances, striking up
brief but sparky acquaintance with Alan Coren
(obituary, October 20, 2007), Humphrey Lyttelton
(obituary, April 28, 2008), Alan Bennett and Diana
Dors. The BBC contact led to a documentary
programme in 1972 with Bernard Price, recording
Warner’s purchase of the contents of an ironmonger’s
shop in Presteigne, Powys, which had unsold stock
going back to the 1840s.
Warner’s marriage to Ruth Hurcombe, a South
African botanist, produced a son and two daughters.
He closed the Burford shop in 1983 after 47 years to
concentrate on his garden, his exceptional private
collection and a written account of his career, which
was published as Memoirs of a Twentieth Century
Antique Dealer by the Regional Furniture Society in
2003.
His wife died in January 2007. He is survived by his
three children.
Roger Warner, antiques dealer, was born on May 3,
1913. He died on May 13, 2008, aged 95
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MORTIMER ARMS
by
Martin Davies
Sir John Mortimer QC, defender of free speech and creator of Rumpole of the Bailey, died in January this year.
He was granted arms which appear on the cover of a volume of autobiography The Summer of a Dormouse
(below) in which he describes his visit to the College of Arms:
‘I’ve got Peers of the Realm up to here! They think they
can get into the House of Lords tomorrow. Most of them
haven’t a clue. Thank God for a Knight!’
I am in the College of Heralds, a beautiful but somewhat
run-down building in Queen Victoria Street. I have been
admitted to the presence of Garter King of Arms, the Boss,
the Chief Herald, generally known as Garter for short. By
my standards he is young, and dressed in a tweed suit,
which gives him an air of a country gent off to the races. I
have come to sign on.
‘It’s a perfectly simple process,’ Garter assures me.
‘Remember what we had at school? Bottle of ink. Dip-in
pen. Although, at school, the bottle of ink was always
bunged up with chewing gum and blotting paper, wasn’t
it? No chewing gum here. No blotch. Just dip your pen in
and sign the book! You can manage that, can’t you?’
I can manage it. As I sign my name I say ‘Is that all?’
‘That’s all. Unless you’d like a coat of arms’
Sir John Mortimer’s arms are featured again on p. 8
I think it over. ‘Well I’d quite like a coat of arms.
Something to emblazon, perhaps, on the car’s mud-stained door?
‘If you want a coat of arms ,’ Garter becomes unusually serious, ‘ choose a nice animal. Look at this
fellow!’ He pulls a huge book off a shelf and flicks through a collection of crests. ‘Some bloody judge.
See what he wanted? A woman’s legs, on his coat of arms! Disgusting! Barbra Streisand’s legs! Take
my tip. Choose a nice animal.’
So I choose my animal, and a motto in Latin – AESTAS GLIRIS, ‘The Summer of a Dormouse’.
The motto comes from Byron, a poet much admired by Rumpole and Mortimer,
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation) sleep, eating and swilling – buttoning and
unbuttoning- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse…
The dormouse in the crest is said to be quaffing champagne, a reference to the type of socialism with which
Mortimer was happy to be associated, and the shield reflects the Bar and writing from which he achieved his
greatest successes.
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part 2 of an address given by Peter Ll Gwynn-Jones, Garter Principal King
of Arms, at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 6th September 2008
In obtaining simple and
distinctive heraldry in the
Arms, I have always sought to
use the ordinaries or subordinaries rather like the
fracted one and couped
chevronel. Fesses, bends,
chevrons and chiefs have
been widely used in the past.
However, I have found that
lesser-used flaunches, piles
and pales have been much
more useful in providing an
allusion to occupations or
professions or a pun on a
name. For example, the Arms
of Sir John Donne give the
initial “D” in the form of two
flaunches. Roundels allude to
cricket and pills, he being a
Regional Chairman of the
NHS. Two broaches are taken
from the Arms of the
Broiderers Company, of which
he was Master. It was Sir pallets suggesting the stock of
Johnʼs own suggestion that a tree and they are obviously
the legal profession is often
thought by others to be of a
predatory nature hence his
wolf which is shown holding a
retort as an indication of his
love of science.
Another pun is revealed in
the Arms of Sir George
Cooper where pallets are
used, those on the outer side
being embowed outwards.
This gives the general
impression of a barrel and
hence a pun on the name
Cooper. He grows two
hundred roses in his garden
and keeps labradors. The
black labrador seems to have
overtaken the lion in popularity
in recent years and there are
now for example a number of
black labradors as carved
Crests above Stalls in
Westminster Abbey — a
veritable pack!
More puns are found in the
Arms
of
Sir
Jeremy
Greenstock the couped raguly
tinctured Vert - Greenstock.
His service to the Crown in the
Foreign Office is indicated by
the three coronets and his
diplomatic service is again
reflected by the greyhound
which has long been used for
that purpose. Sir Jeremy
Greenstockʼs wife is named
Anne so the greyhound is
shown holding Queen Anneʼs
lace.
The
surname
of
Greenstock is again reflected
in the greenshanks which
happily coincide with Sir
Jeremyʼs
interest
in
birdwatching.
More puns are found in the
Arms of Sir Michael Rake. The
black and red for credit and
debit relate to his career in
accountancy and the issuing
gold pallets with their piles
suggest the head of a rake.
Two heads of rakes are found
in the Badge. Again you might
be interested in the blazon
which is Paly of four Gules
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and Sable on the Sable and
abutting the sinister edge an
Endorse issuing therefrom
three Piles bendwise sinister
throughout Or. I take the view
that almost all things are
blazonable. Sir Michael had a
strong interest in the equine
world and rather than rest the
horseʼs hoof on something or
put something in its mouth, I
simply used two horses.
Those who have seen the
heraldry of new Life Peers will
know that I am prone to using
two animals crossing each
other, usually in a Badge. This
is an approval sketch before
the motto was agreed.
I suppose all Officers of
Arms tend to have a favourite
formula and you will find this
particular formula again in the
Arms of Sir John Sunderland,
Chairman
of
Cadbury
Schweppes, where the two
crossing woodcock represent
his interest in shooting. The
name of his house is Three
Barrows which explains the
field of the Shield Barry of four
enarched Vert and Sable per
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Byron wrote “when one
subtracts from life infancy
(which is vegetation) sleeping,
eating and swilling, buttoning
and unbuttoning, how much
remains
of
downright
existence? The summer of a
dormouse.” John wrote his
autobiography which is called
The Summer of a Dormouse”
and here it is in his Crest and
in his Badge.
We have already seen the
flypast of Sir Peter Squire and
the naval gannets of Admiral
pale counterchanged The oak
trees refer to his children. The
raven I believe is simply a bird
in the immediate locality of his
house and the cocoa pod is a
reference to Cadbury.
Occupations feature in
Arms, for example the bar and
the quill are found in the Arms
of Sir John Mortimer, the
creator of Rumpole. The Crest
is of particular interest as Sir Desmond Cassidi but the
military element is found in the
Arms of Sir Robert Ford.
Although the Crest of a bobcat
is a pun on his Christian
name, the Arms refer to World
War II where he commanded a
Sherman tank in the 4th/7th
Royal Dragoon Guards. The
house with a circular drive was
the aim of those arriving on
Gold Beach for the Normandy
landings. The tank tracks,
represented by bars humetty
conjoined to pallets couped,
are advancing towards it. The
house with a circular drive
may also indicate the cross of
sacrifice, for Sir Robert was
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Vice Chairman of the War
Graves Commission. The
gold, maroon and black are
regimental colours and the
oak leaf in the Crest refers to
the position he held as
Governor of the Royal
Chelsea Hospital.
Away from the Armed
Forces, science is found in the
Arms of Sir Colin Spedding
who wrote to me that “my
academic work made great
use of circular diagrams”. I
therefore used the idea of
roundels and combined this
with the sun taken from the
Arms of the Institute of
Biology. I am afraid I cannot
recall why he chose a badger.
Badgers have proved nearly
as popular a black labradors. I
am generally very anti proper
when this comes to greys and
browns preferring to see the
animal in full heraldic tincture.
However I feel the badger just
gets away with it and can be
taken as black and white and
so provides a unity of design
with the Arms.
Writing, the Armed Forces,
cricket balls or red roundels
are surmounting white pallets.
They are not entirely on the
blue. Sir Roland lives in the
West Indies, hence the
hawksbill sea turtle in the
Crest.
Cricket
features
frequently in heraldry; but I am
only aware once of having
designed an allusion to
football - goal posts. I have yet
to have a green scarab
pushing along a golden ball of
dung; but I have used goal
posts in stylized form. This is
an approval sketch before the
motto was settled. The original
motto
was
ʻRachmonesʼ
meaning ʻcompassionʼ.
Cricket again features in
Here are the Arms of Sir
Edmund Hillary, granted in the Arms of Sir Nicholas Scott.
1996, showing interlaced Pallets are particularly useful
chevronels embowed inwards for cricket stumps. They are
to represent the Himalayas
and three Tibetan prayer
wheels. The kiwi holding an
ice pick is obvious. Angling the
charge like these bendwise
prayer wheels can, I think, be
effective. This too is a late
twentieth century and early
twenty-first
century
development.
Games lend themselves
well to heraldry such as cricket
for Sir Roland Franklin where I
would argue that it does not
break the colour rule. The
the bar and science are
merely a few of the many
occupations that can be
represented in heraldry. For
example, there is exploring.
blazoned as Retrait in chief
and there indented on one
point downwards Or. Retrait
means couped at one end.
The winged bull and coronet
are found in the Arms of
Kensington and Chelsea for
which he was MP; and the
portcullises are obviously an
allusion to Parliament.
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correspondence
A plea from the Shires
May I, through the membership magazine, table a
plea from the Shires that the Council of our Society
give consideration to holding its lectures and
meetings on a Saturday. There must be other members
living some distance away from the capital who,
through working commitments, find it impossible to
attend meetings held during the week regardless of
whether they are held during the day or in the
evening. For a resident of the Shires to attend a
meeting at 6.30 p.m. followed by wine and social
discourse at 8.30 p.m. after a normal working day
would not only mean leaving work early to catch a
convenient train but, more importantly, would mean a
very late return home culminating in an exhausting
day of work and leisure.
If only meetings could be held early on a Saturday
afternoon those in my predicament could make it a
leisurely and enjoyable day out, setting out at a
reasonable hour and returning home in good time. I
am quite convinced that such a move would increase
your audience; presently, I find it impossible to attend
meetings of The Heraldry Society in London but have
much less difficulty attending meetings of The
Heraldry Society of Scotland in Edinburgh simply
because they are held on a Saturday.
When he wasn't busy with his professional life as a
staff lawyer and sometime Court Comissioner for the
Thurston County Superior Court of the State of
Washington, he did a wide range of heraldic research
with a particular focus on Scottish heraldry. Some,
but by no means all, of his work can be found on the
Heraldry Society of Scotland web site. He was also
very adept at heraldic display artwork, working in
many media but having a particular skill in split
stitch using Opus Anglicanum techniques.
He will be missed.
Leslie A. Schweitzer
Tualatin, Oregon, USA.
Martin Goldstraw JP, FSA Scot.
Obit David Hunter of Montlaw
I am greatly saddened to report that David Hunter of
Montlaw passed away unexpectedly last Sunday,
December 21, 2008.
David was a long-time member of The Heraldry
Society, which was present as an influence in the
majority of his life. You should have records of his
examination from many years ago. (I think he was in
High school then, but I may misremember; he might
have been an undergraduate).
While he was not able to travel to England often,
various members of The Heraldry Society probably
know him through past correspondence, from
meeting him at the 2006 Congress in St. Andrews, or
from his active participation in The Heraldry Society
of Scotland's on-line forum.
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The Late David Hunter of Montlaw
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Papal Hatchment?
(for instance Vierzehnheiligen near Coburg) display
the
arms of the current pope high above the west door.
A response to the letter by Andrew Gray;
I can only guess it denotes a special relationship with
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the holy chair or the pope as a person.
It seems customary for certain cathedrals, especially
John F. Müller
ones in Rome, to display the arms of the pope on an
oval above the door. Why exactly I can not say. What I
can say with some certainty, is that they are not
funeral hatchments. Many large churches in Bavaria
THE JBL MEMORIAL LECTURE 2008
Keith Lovell FHS between the Chairman, David White, and the Hon.Secretary, Melvyn Jeremiah
The 2008 JBL Memorial Lecture was given by Keith Lovell FHS at the Society of Antiquaries on 18th
November. The subject was the tomb of Queen Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey. As regular visitors to the
Abbey will know, the tomb occupies the major part of the space in a small chapel and it is very difficult to
examine properly the wealth of heraldry displayed upon it, recording the various ancestral lines of the Queen.
No doubt partly for this reason, there was a record attendance at this meeting, with standing room only in
our usual lecture room. Mr Lovell explained the four lines of descent from Edward III to Queen Elizabeth I,
recorded by the shields emblazoned on the tomb. The photographs of some of these shields, obtained with
some difficulty, made it possible to appreciate the lineage in a much clearer way than would be possible in
situ. The lecture and its associated images were greatly appreciated by those present.
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A NEW UNICORN
We were very pleased to meet Adam Bruce, cousin of
Council member Alastair Bruce, at the Anniversary
Lunch last year when he was guest speaker and gave
us an entertaining account of Scottish heraldry
matters. At that time he was Finlaggan Pursuivant to
the Clan Donald, and he still holds that honorary
appointment, but we were delighted to learn of his
official appointment as Unicorn Pursuivant at the
Court of the Lord Lyon. With his legal background he
will be a most useful addition to the Court.
The Badge of
Unicorn Pursuivant
2008 photographic competition
The 2008 Photographic
Competition attracted eleven
entries with eighteen
photographs – an improvement
on previous years. The Judging
Panel decided that the winner
should be Matthew Hovious, for
his photograph "Pigeons
Dormant" (far left). The Panel
also recommended that this year
there should be a runner-up,
John-Franz Mueller's photograph
"Arms of the Holy Roman
Empire"(left). Council accepted
these recommendations, and the
prizes were presented at the
Anniversary Lunch. The
competition will be held again
this year, and an entry form will
accompany the June issue of the
“Gazette”.
autumn dinner
Judges perusing entries
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The 2008 Autumn Dinner will be held at the
Society of Apothecaries in the City of London
on Thursday, 19th November. Note the date in
your diary now! Once again it will be a full
dress occasion with white or black tie,
decorations and table banners. Further details
will be given in the June issue of the “Gazette”
which will also include a booking form.
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chairmanship
new fellows
At its February meeting Council confirmed the appointment of David
Krause HonFHS as Chairman for the next two years. David succeeds David
White, Somerset Herald, who has chaired the Council for the past three
years. Council paid tribute to his wise and careful leadership throughout
this period.
At its recent meeting the Council
of the Society decided to confer
full Fellowship of the Society on
two members of the Society who
are at present Honorary Fellows.
Ralph Brocklebank and Stephen
Slater will be well-known to many
members. Both can truly be said
to have reached a level of
outstanding achievement in
heraldry and are welcome
additions to the distinguished
company of Fellows of the Society.
There are now nineteen such
Fellows and thirty-eight Honorary
Fellows.
David Krause lives in Bradford.
His present term as a Member of
Council began when he was elected
in 2001 and he has been Deputy
Chairman for the past three years.
At the same meeting Council
confirmed the appointment of Tony
Sims as Deputy Chairman in
succession to David Krause. Tony
lives in Norfolk and was elected to
Council in 2006.
bookstall manager
Stephen Slater
Council is pleased to
announce the
appointment of a new
Bookstall Manager,
Michael Guest (left).
Michael lives in Epsom
and takes up his new
duties immediately.
Ralph Brocklebank
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almanac of events
april
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Archbishop Matthew Parker:
The Neville Family - First History of Norwich
Middlesex
Tiaras, Hats and Pikes
Norfolk
Visit to St George’s Chapel, Windsor, joint excursion with
the Suffolk Heraldry Society
Bath
Annual General Meeting and Members’ Miscellany
Cheshire
Annual General Meeting
Heraldry Society Heraldry in the Isle of Man
Chiltern/Middx Heraldry in the Isle of Man
Yorkshire
An Elephant Evolves
CUHAGS
“The Serene Commonwealth”
Clive Wilkins-Jones
Stephen Kibbey
Howard Connell
Howard Connell
Mike Cresswell
Sir Conrad Swan
may
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Norfolk
CUHAGS
Chiltern/Middx
CUHAGS
Heraldry Society
27 Yorkshire
Berkeley Castle
Annual General Meeting
Elias Asmole’s Visitation of Berkshire 1665-6
The Genealogy of the Bach Family
The Scriveners Company Lecture:
The Baronets’ Battles for a Badge
Book Auction
Ken Mourin
Augmentations of Honour
The Accession Banquet
Andy Anderson
Adrian Ailes
Francis Knights
David White
june
3 Norfolk
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the dering roll
the hon. secretary
The Appeal to raise sufficient money for the British
Library to buy the Dering Roll and prevent its sale to
a foreign purchaser has been successful. The
Hon.Secretary was invited to a Private Viewing of the
Roll in January as thanks for the support the Heraldry
Society had given to the Appeal. Also present were a
number of other members of the Society, including
Keith Lovell, John Horton. Peter O’Donoghue. Colin
Lee, Tony and Philippa Sims, and Joan Hurrell, The
Curator of Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts explained
the history of the Roll and traced its ownership. It has
been on display in the Sir John Ritblat Gallery at the
British Library since September 2008. It will be made
available to researchers by prior arrangement in the
Manuscripts Reading Room at the Library, where it has
the shelf-mark Additional Roll 77720.
Having reached his seventieth birthday, Melvyn
Jeremiah has decided to retire this year from half of
the voluntary jobs he does. One of those is the
Honorary Secretaryship of The Heraldry Society. He
has therefore told Council that he intends to retire at
the end of this calendar year, when he will have
completed seven years in the post. Over the coming
months Council will be looking for a successor. If you
feel you have the necessary qualities of aptitude,
energy and enthusiasm and would like to be
considered for the post, please drop a line saying so to
Melvyn or to David Krause.
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The Society has heard with regret of the death of
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Mr. C Smith
Mr. R A Humphrey
May 2008
December 2008
KEMPSFORD
PARISH CHURCH
On pages 15 and 16 of the December 2007 (106)
edition of the Heraldry Gazette there was an article
about the heraldic ceiling of Kempsford Parish Church
and a proposal for its conservation. I am pleased to
pass on the information from Rev. David Ackerman
that a Heritage Lottery grant of £24,600 has been
awarded and the work will go ahead.
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FIRE AT THE COLLEGE OF ARMS
Just before 11 a.m. on Thursday, the 5th of February, a
fire had indeed broken out in parts of the third and
fourth floor of the West Wing at the College of Arms.
Eight fire engines and forty fire-fighters attended the
scene and the occupants of the building – thirty five
in number - were evacuated.
We will work hard to put the building right over the
forthcoming weeks, but we will remain open for
business. I am glad that our emergency plan worked
well, and I am really grateful to the Fire Brigade for the
exceptional care they took, knowing what national
treasures we care for here."
Apparently attempts were made to fight the fire with
extinguishers on its initial discovery, but to no avail.
Various members of staff, together with the firefighters, risked life and limb to remove artworks and
books from the West Wing to minimise any loss.
At the time of writing, the cause of the fire is
unknown.
Council has asked the Chairman to write to Garter
expressing the sympathy of the Society and
congratulating the heralds and staff of the College on
The blaze was brought under control some three-and- the efficient and effective way that they dealt with the
a-half hours later.
crisis.
Initial fears that the fire may have broken through the
roof were not realised thankfully. However, several
rooms were severely effected, not least that of Mr
Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, York Herald, whose office
was extensively damaged. A mezzanine roof level also
suffered.
While there appears to be no loss of ‘institutional’
records, some personal papers and collections may
have been lost.
Mercifully there were no reports of physical injury to
staff or those fighting the fire.
Peter Gwynn-Jones, Garter King of Arms, said, “This
event is a great sadness to all of us who work here.
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The College of Arms in better times
Photos by Adrian Barham (top left), Melvyn Jeremiah (top
right), Arpingstone (bottom right)
Original text by Alan Buckingham, White Lion Society.
Published by the Heraldry Society, Charity Reg No 24156, Reg Office, 110 Ashley Gardens, Thirleby Road, Westminster,
London SW1P 1HJ. Printed by Masterprint Ltd, London, SE18 5NQ