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THE HERALDRY
GAZETTE
NEW SERIES 105
September 2007
Mary, Lady Soames LG DBE
Guest of Honour at the Heraldry Society Autumn Dinner - Wednesday 14 November 2007
Illustrated is the design for the Garter Banner now hanging in St George’s Chapel, Windsor. The mallets in
the arms of Soames are in fact Or. By kind permission of Garter King of Arms.
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MARY, LADY SOAMES LG DBE
by David White
The Guest of Honour at the Society’s Dinner at
Apothecaries Hall in November is to be Lady Soames,
LG, DBE.
Mary Soames, now 85, has had a remarkable life,
much of it spent at the centre of the British political
world. The daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, and the
wife of Christopher Soames, cabinet minister,
Ambassador to Paris, and final British Governor of
Rhodesia, she has also carved out a career for herself
as a writer and arts administrator. When, in 2005, the
Queen appointed her as only the third non-Royal Lady
of the Garter it was widely welcomed as an inspired
choice.
Her parents, Winston Churchill and Clementine
Hozier, married in 1908 and she was the youngest of
their five children. Mary Soames is the final survivor.
Her father bought Chartwell, his house in Kent,
shortly after Mary was born in 1922 and it was there
that her childhood was spent; visitors to the now
National Trust property can see the Wendy house built
in the garden for her. The age gap between her and
her nearest sibling, Sarah, was such that she has
reflected that her upbringing was more like that of an
only child, ‘I lived chiefly among grown-ups, with
whom I was on the whole more at ease than with
children of my own age’. Attending two Kentish day
schools she was at home at Chartwell to meet some of
the many visitors who called upon Winston Churchill,
not just politicians but others, including Walter Sickert
and Lawrence of Arabia. In early childhood she was
unaware of the fame and importance of her father,
who would allow her to ‘help’ him with his bricklaying.
But as a teenager she was treated by him as fully adult
and asked her opinion of current affairs.
After her father had become Prime Minister in
1940, she was, to her considerable annoyance, sent by
her parents to live at Chequers to avoid the Blitz. Not
yet of military age, she worked as a billeting officer for
the WVS in Aylesbury. At 18 she joined up, spending
the next five years in the Auxiliary Territorial Service,
first as a private, then as a sergeant, and ultimately as
a junior officer. She could not escape being the Prime
Minister’s daughter. ‘It was much easier’ she has said
‘when I was in the ranks. Once you were an officer it
was much more of a struggle to be accepted. I
remember my terror whenever I was sent to a new
Mary, Lady Soames wearing her robes as a Lady
Companion of the Order of the Garter, in procession to
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle for the annual
service of the Order of the Garter on 19 June 2006.
Photograph by Philip Allfrey in Wikipedia Commons
unit’. Her work was in anti-aircraft batteries. For a
period she was posted to a battery in Hyde Park, where
her father would sometimes ‘drop in’ when she was on
duty. She witnessed the flying bomb fall on the
Guards Chapel.
Later she was on the coast at Hastings, shooting at
flying bombs as they came across the Channel, before
she moved on to make up part of the defences of
liberated Brussels. But her war service also entailed
serving as an ADC to her father during his visits to
Quebec and Potsdam. Stalin she remembers as ‘small,
dapper and rather twinkly’.
In 1947 she married Christopher Soames, who had
spent the war in the Coldstream Guards, but who soon
now left the army and began running the farm at
Chartwell. In 1950 he was elected MP for Bedford
and Mary Soames threw herself into the work of an
MP’s wife in the constituency. But she felt her mother
had been too much the political wife, and for her own
children she would always make the school holidays
sacrosanct.
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Christopher Soames has been described as ‘a figure
very much larger than life. His conversation could
usually be heard in the next room’. He served as
Parliamentary Private Secretary to his father-in-law in
the last two year of his second premiership, and rose
on through the ministerial ranks to become Secretary
of State for War in 1958, and subsequently Minister of
Agriculture from 1960 to 1964. Throughout all this
Mary was at his side. The loss of his Bedford seat at
the 1966 General Election seemed a blow. In 1968
he was still looking for another seat in Parliament
when the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, made his
quite unexpected offer to send him to Paris as the
British Ambassador. His special task was to prepare
the ground for British entry to the Common Market.
The Paris embassy is a fine and very grand 18th
century house, at one time the home of Pauline
Borghese, Napoleon’s sister. It was here that Mary
Soames spent four happy and highly fulfilling years
supporting her husband, entertaining at her table,
among others, Presidents De Gaulle and Pompidou,
and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Large Soames
family parties were held at Christmas, to which Mary’s
now widowed mother came over from England.
After Paris, Christopher and Mary Soames were in
Brussels where he served as Vice President of the
European Commission from 1973 to 1977. Here she
did not feel as involved in her husband’s work as she
had living ‘in the shop’ in Paris. She began
researching the life of her mother, Clementine
Churchill, which was published to great acclaim and
success in 1979.
The election of a Conservative Government in 1979
saw Christopher Soames return to the cabinet as
Leader of the House of Lords. The hardest task of his
career came later that year when he was appointed as
Governor of Southern Rhodesia to oversee elections
and the granting of independence to the long
troublesome colony. In this he was successful and
much praised as was his wife who was with him in
Rhodesia, or Zimbabwe as it soon became. For her
services there she was appointed DBE in 1980. The
subsequent history of Zimbabwe and the behaviour of
President Mugabe has greatly distressed her.
Christopher Soames died in 1987. In widowhood
Mary Soames found a new role at the National
Theatre, chairing its governing body for six years. She
has continued to write, publishing a history of the 5th
Duke of Marlborough and his Duchess, an account of
her father as a painter, and an edition of her parents’
letters to each other.
Those who have seen the Garter procession at
Windsor in recent years will know that Lady Soames
cuts a very elegant and impressive figure. We are
greatly looking forward to having her as the Society’s
Guest of Honour.
GREATER MANCHESTER
HERALDRY SOCIETY
ANNUAL HERALDRY STUDY
DAY
Supported by The Heraldry Society and by the
Cheshire & Lancashire Heraldry Societies
at
HELMSLEY HALL, SALFORD
(opposite the UNIVERSITY)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 12th 2007
10.30am until 4.00pm
This Year’s Speakers are
Malcolm Howe
Heraldry of Sharples with appendix to his
previous talks to us
Hugh Murray
Arms of the Archbishops of York
Stephen Slater
Insignia of the Royal Household
Jim Winstanley
Heraldic Art and Design
Tickets £15.00
inclusive of welcome coffee & lunch
Obtainable from the Treasurer
Barry Wilde
Thornfield
60 Thorn Road
Swinton
SALFORD M27 5QT
Full Programme and Directions will be
sent with Ticket
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CUHAGS GRANT of ARMS
by John Tunesi of Liongam
Saturday, the 9th June
transpired to be a glorious
summer’s evening on which
to hold the Golden
Anniversary and Accession
Banquet of the Cambridge
University Heraldic and
Genealogical Society
(CUHAGS) in the Great Hall
at Clare College.
During the course of the
evening and celebratory of
the fact that the Society was
about to reach its 50th
anniversary on the 10th
June, Peter Gwynn-Jones,
Garter Principal King of Arms
along with David White,
Somerset Herald of Arms (the
agent in the case and past
President of the Society)
presented the Letters Patent
of the Society's new grant of
armorial bearings to this
year’s President, Monica
Morrill. Although, for many
years, the Society (like a great
many other societies within
the university) had made use
of the University's arms it
was thought some time ago
that the Society should consider petitioning for its own arms. At first, it was thought a grant of a badge might
suffice as the Society was technically 'dependant' upon the university. Enquiries were made in this respect and
it was decided that the Society was independent of the university so could therefore petition for a grant of
armorial bearings in its own right. The time was now ripe. For the golden jubilee of the Society was looming. So
during the course of the last year, a committee was formed to consider the design of the proposed arms. At
length, a pleasing design was chosen and approved by Garter and subsequently granted.
Although I have not seen the blazon as I did not have a chance on the night to view the finished grant at
first hand owing to the press of people attending, I believe the arms and crest may be blazoned (on the hoof
so to speak) as follows:
Arms: Or a cross conjoined to a bordure pean between four lion's faces gules langued azure.
Crest: A demi lion guardant or langued azure holding in its dexter paw a crane's leg erased a la quise gules
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feathered gold and resting its sinister paw upon a
book its spine uppermost proper bound gules and
garnished or.
Motto: 'Caeruleus candidus vincet' (loosely
translated, I believe to be: 'Let the light blues
conquer’).
Garter King of Arms reading from the letters patent,
and in the background this year’s President, Monica
Morrill, to whom the grant of arms was presented.
The use of the book, cross, lion's faces and the
demi lion reflect the university's arms in some respect;
whilst the use of the fur pean acts as a remembrance
to the fact that this particular fur has been used as the
Society's 'colour' for many a long year. The use of
both or and sable also alludes to the home of the
society for its meetings: Clare College. The crane's leg
in the crest refers to the genealogical aspect of the
Society: from the French 'pied de grue', the origin of
the word pedigree. The light blue as mentioned in the
motto is the traditional 'colour' of the university as
opposed to the dark blue of the other place (ie:
Oxford).
BIRMINGHAM
CONFERENCE
by Melvyn Jeremiah
Enthusiastic expert heraldists from the Midlands
and further afield gathered in the magnificent setting
of the Birmingham City Council chamber on Monday
and Tuesday 6th- 7th August for the second
conference arranged by Adrian de Redman HonFHS,
Birmingham City Armorist. The topic was
contemporary grants of arms, in practice grants over
the last forty years or so. A number of speakers
explained the process and significance of grants either
to themselves or with which they had been associated
in some way. The President of the Conference, Robert
Noel Lancaster Herald, enthralled his audience with
examples of modern grants by the College of Arms. In
subsequent discussion it was emphasised to him that
the listing of grantees in the regular College
newsletter was not much good in the absence of both
blazon and illustration of the arms that had been
granted to them. This led on to a plea for the College
to make available in some way its records of grants,
particularly those since the last general armories were
published. These grants were matters of public record
and it was not good enough to have them squirreled
away in the College’s Records with no public
availability. Mr Lancaster promised to take that
message back to the College.
On the Monday evening a Conference Dinner was
held in the St Paul’s Club, with the Deputy Lord Mayor
and Mayoress as Guests of Honour. All present
enjoyed a most convivial evening. In his after dinner
remarks the Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor John
Sharpe, repeated the warm welcome he had extended
to the Conference in opening the proceedings earlier
in the day. In closing the Conference on Tuesday he
emphasised that the City would welcome a further
such gathering in the future. The hospitality extended
by the City was excellent and the assistance given by
the Corporation’s staff was much appreciated. The
participants were united in hoping that there would
indeed be another opportunity to meet in such
rewarding circumstances.
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A UNIQUE GIFT
by Baz Manning
In 2006 I was asked by a Greek client to paint the
arms of his lifelong friend as a Christmas present for
him. The friend was the younger son of the second
Viscount Hailsham, the well known Conservative
politician Quintin Hogg. The arms had been granted in
1846 (College of Arms Grants 48, 165) and the
supporters added in 1928 when Quintin's father was
made Baron on becoming, as the post was then
known, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. They are
Arms: Argent three boars' heads erased between two
The arms of the first Lord Hailsham reproduced with
the kind permission of the Honourable Society of
Lincoln’s Inn
flaunches azure each charged with a crescent argent.
Crest: Out of an eastern crown argent an oak tree
fructed proper pendent therefrom an escutcheon azure
charged with a dexter arm embowed in armour the
hand grasping an arrow in bend sinister point
downwards also proper. Supporters: On either side a
ram argent armed and unguled or gorged with a
baron's coronet the dexter supporting the Lord High
Chancellor's mace the sinister the Lord High
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Chancellor's purse proper. The purse is used in the
House of Lords and was embroidered by the Royal
School of Needlework with the full Royal Arms in
appliqué with a border of cherubs. As born by the ram
it becomes one of the smallest coats of arms on a coat
of arms in the world of heraldry. I have heard of the
full Royal Arms being granted centuries ago on a
canton which must surely be the smallest example
ever. (Do any readers know the story behind that one?)
The last Lord Chancellor, Baron Irvine of Lairg, has
recently been granted arms in Scotland which include
the same purse being carried by a trainbearer of the
House of Lords. As this is Lord Irvine's crest it has to
be smaller than the Hailshams' version, an even more
demanding challenge to the chosen artists.
The erasing of a boar's head is a small point but an
important one. Whereas some authors such as Elvin in
the 1880s made no distinction, Fox-Davies just a few
years later stated clearly that an English boar's head
is erased horizontally (at the throat, you could say)
while a Scottish animal was erased vertically (at the
neck). This also applied to couped and is still valid
today. In recent years our English heralds have decided
to refer to the Scottish method as erased behind the
ears, an effective distinction at last. The Hoggs' heads
have always been erased in the Scottish fashion
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this being made in the blazon. The reasons seem lost
in obscurity.
I already knew the Hogg arms well as I had painted
versions of them for Lincoln's Inn, where all three
Viscounts, including the current one, and his sister
Dame Mary, have been Benchers. Because of this it
was agreed that the gift should be painted as if it were
a panel from the walls of Lincoln's Inn's Great Hall.
The client told me he remembered his friend talking as
a boy about his maternal grandfather, Richard
Martin's arms. I could find no published record of
these so the client decided to approach the College of
Arms to make sure one way or the other. He was told
that Ulster Pedigrees 2. 238 in the College records
listed the arms in question and that they had been
confirmed in 1907. As Richard's daughter was an only
child the herald told my client that the current
generation of Hoggs were entitled to quarter their
mother's arms. This was a fact quite unknown to them
and was kept secret until the arms were presented. The
Martin arms are azure a cross Calvary argent the
dexter arm terminating in a sun in splendour the
sinister in a decrescent both or. Remarkably both Hogg
tinctures were repeated as well as one of the charges,
NEW ARCHBISHOP of MALTA
by Rev Geoffrey Attard
After the thirty year episcopate of Gozitan born Archbishop
Mgr. Joseph Mercieca, the archdiocese of Malta has passed into
the hands of Dominican friar Mgr. Pawlu Cremona OP. Mgr.
Cremona was ordained at Saint John’s Co-Cathedral, once the
conventual church of the Knights of Malta on the island, on the
26th of January 2007.
The new coat of arms for the newly ordained archbishop
comprises a shield party per pale for his family arms and a chief
representing the Dominican Order, a black cape on a white habit.
To the dexter the arms featuring three flowers with four petals
each represents the Archbishop’s paternal surname ‘Cremona’
while the sinister bearing the image of a dolphin is a reflection of
his mother’s surname ‘Cauchi’.
The rank of archbishop is denoted by the Pallium bearing
black crosses (granted to new archbishops every year on the feast
of St Peter and St Paul on the 29th June) and the green Galero
(ecclesiastical hat with ten tassels representing the grade of
archbishop).
The Maltese motto of Archbishop Cremona is ‘Hejju t-triq
ghall-Mulej’ which in English is translated as ‘Prepare the way for
the Lord’.
making for a visually perfect quartering of the arms. I
chose to lighten the blue I used for the shield and crest
in an attempt to give them emphasis over the blue of
the mantling. This is less effective in the photo than it
was on the painting and was never meant to be as
dramatic a difference as bleu celeste. The shield is the
only departure from a Lincoln's Inn panel, which all
have variations of heaters. The quarters fitted nicely
into this shape, whereas a true heater squashed the
lower quarters unacceptably. The mantling is the
modern version, developed from that used for the Inn
in the 1960s by their artist at the time, Frank Newsom
Berry.
James Hogg not only ended up with an unexpected
painting of his arms for Christmas but equally
unexpected proof that he and his family were entitled
to quartered arms. In this generation James may be
the only one to use them though, as his brother and
sister have decided to remain with the unquartered
arms they have used all their lives. This is an irony
readers may appreciate as there are many modern
armorists who would do anything to add quarters to
their own shields.
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an heraldic weekend
CAMBRIDGE 2008
The Council and the Congress Committee are
pleased to confirm that the Society’s next heraldic
weekend will take place at Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge over the weekend 5th-7th September
2008.
The topic of the weekend is to be ‘Knights and
Knighthood’.
The format of the weekend will be, as usual, with
delegates arriving for registration in the late afternoon
on the Friday and departing after lunch on the Sunday
afternoon. The Congress Committee are presently
putting together a full and varied programme of
lectures, together with an excursion that should be of
interest to all delegates. There will be a formal dinner
on the Saturday evening to which members are
encouraged as per usual to bring their Table Banners.
As with previous weekends there will be an
opportunity for delegates, who wish to be nonresidential,
to attend on a daily basis.
We shall be running throughout the weekend an
exhibition of heraldic artwork and for next year we are
requesting delegates attending to bring with them
items of heraldic interest which they would be happy
to exhibit.
Please find within this mailing the initial booking
form for the event. The Congress Committee looks
forward to receiving your bookings, remembering that
there is a discount of £10 per delegate if the form and
£25.00 deposit is received before 31st December
2007.
On receipt of the booking form, delegates will be
sent a form requesting them to supply dietary,
mobility, car parking and other administrative
requirements that will allow all delegates to have an
enjoyable weekend. Please note that although there
are more than adequate parking spaces on
Fitzwilliam’s campus, we will need to know how many
delegates intend driving to Cambridge in order to give
warning to the college.
We hope to see many old and new friends at
Cambridge next September.
John & Jane Tunesi of Liongam
Congress Committee
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HERALDRY OF NEW LIFE PEERS
by Peter Ll Gwynn-Jones CVO, Garter Principal King of Arms
Baron Drayson (Paul Rudd Drayson) cr 2004 (Baron Drayson, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea)
Arms: Sable a Mullet of eight points gyronny Or and Argent between four strands of DNA
issuing in saltire Argent and four strands of DNA issuing in cross Or
Crest A Wolf statant Sable supporting with the dexter forepaw a Driving Wheel Or
Supporters: On either side a Jaguar Sable holding in the interior forepaw a Rapier Argent
hilt pommel and guard Or
Badge A Jaguar rampant Sable holding in the dexter forepaw a Rapier Argent hilt pommel
and guard Or
Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland (Derek Foster) cr 2005, PC1993, DL (Co
Durham 2001), (Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, of Bishop Auckland in the County of Durham)
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The grantee's interests in fencing and motor racing are featured as is his
career in the pharmaceutical industry which is reflected in the strands of
DNA.
Arms: Azure two Pallets interlaced with two Barrulets Or all between four Mitres Argent
Crest: An Auk Azure beaked and supporting with the dexter foot a Crozier Or
Supporters: On either side an Otter statant erect Azure supporting with the exterior forepaw
and blowing a Trumpet Or
Badge: An Otter's face Azure surmounting four Trumpets in cross bells outward Argent and
four Trumpets in saltire bells outward Or
The association of Durham with a gold cross on an Azure field is featured in a varied form
in the Arms. The cross formation is placed between four mitres as a
punning allusion on Bishop Auckland. Punning on Bishop Auckland is
also extended into the Crest.
In addition to being an industrious animal, the otter is associated with
rivers and Bishop Auckland is sited on the River Wear. It is depicted in
association with trumpets as the grantee has a particular interest in
brass bands.
Baron Patel of Bradford (Kamlesh Kumar Patel) cr 2006, OBE (Baron Patel of Bradford, of Bradford in the
County of West Yorkshire)
Arms: Quarterly Gules and Azure a Rose Argent barbed seeded and issuing from each
barb a Protea slipped Or
Crest: Out of a Lotus Or a Peacock's Head Azure beaked Or
Supporters: On the dexter an Elephant Azure the trappings Gules fringed and tasselled Or
and on the sinister an Elephant Gules the trappings Azure fringed and tasselled and both
armed Or
Badge: A Rose Argent barbed seeded and issuing from each
barb a Protea slipped Or
The Yorkshire rose is combined in these Armorial Bearings with
the protea of South Africa with Indian allusions in Crest and
Supporters.
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Baron Goulld of Broookwood (Philip Gould) cr 2004 (Baron Gould of Brookwood, of Brookwood in the County of
Surrey)
Arms: Azure on a Bend nowy lozengy per bend Argent and Or a Bendlet Azure
Crest: A Badger sejant erect Azure head and chest Argent eyes striped Azure gorged
with a plain Collar studded Or and grasping in the dexter forepaw a Quill palewise
Argent spined Or
Supporters: On either side a Badger Azure the head and chest Argent eyes striped Azure
gorged with a plain Collar studded Or and holding in the mouth a Rose Gules barbed
seeded slipped and leaved Or
Badge: A Roundel set with ten Acorns leaved Or and charged with a Badger's Face
Argent eyes striped Azure
The Arms reflect the grantee's wish for simplicity as well as
suggesting a graph or opinion poll. The roses refer to the grantee's
part in the choice of the red rose as the emblem of the Labour party.
The badgers and acorns are an obvious pun on Brookwood.
Baron Marland (Jonathan Peter Marland) cr 2006 ( Baron Marland, of Odstock in the County of Wiltshire)
Arms: Azure on each of three Bars wavy Or two Martlets respectant Sable
Crest: A Lion sejant erect Or gorged with a plain Collar attached thereto a Line terminating
in a ring Sable and holding between the forefeet a Bobbin also Sable the Yarn Or
Supporters: On either side a Labrador Sable gorged with a plain Collar Or and holding in
the interior forepaw three Bulrushes Sable slipped and leaved Or
Badge: Two Martlets respectant that on the dexter quarterly Sable and Or and that on the
sinister quarterly Or and Sable
The Arms are a variation on those hitherto borne by the family without proper authority.
Black labradors have been increasingly popular in heraldry; and in this instance they are
shown holding bullrushes as the grantee is Chairman of a marshland environmental
project.
The bobbin in the Crest refers to the grantee's wife Penelope.
The classical Penelope was associated with weaving a
winding sheet during the absence of her husband Odysseus.
Baron James of Blackheath (David Noel James) cr 2006, CBE (Baron James of Blackheath, of Wildbrooks in
the County of West Sussex)
Arms: Quarterly Or and Argent on a Cross Gules between four Trumpets in saltire
bells outwards Gules banded Or a Cross quarterly Argent and Or
Crest: Statant upon a Violin Bridge Gules a Cricket Or
Supporters: On either side a Greyhound Gules gorged with a plain Collar attached
thereto a Chain reflexed over the back Or holding in the mouth a Rose Argent
barbed seeded slipped and leaved Or
Badge: Three Escallops in pall flukes inwards and abutting Gules each crowned with
an Ancient Crown Or
Music, cricket and greyhounds are of particular interest to
the grantee. Music is represented by the violin bridge and
trumpets with cricket by the cricket insect. There is a
variation on St George's cross and the escallops in the
Badge are the emblem of St James and hence a pun on the
grantee's title.
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search for an indexer
We were much obligated to the late Captain Barrie
Kent for undertaking the task of indexing the subject
matter of “The Heraldry Gazette”. We are now looking
for someone to take up the job. If you think you have
the right skill (and temperament!) for this important
task please drop a note to the Hon.Secretary at the
Heraldry Society address or send him an e-mail at
honsec_heraldry@excite.co.uk. It will help if you have
a complete set of the “Gazette” from the beginning of
2004 to date.
institute events
The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies is
arranging two events which will be of interest to
members. The first is on 27th October at the Institute
in Canterbury, when a Study Day will be held on the
subject of Heraldry for Family Historians. It will start
with a general introduction to heraldry and go on to
cover marshalling and cadency, and how to identify an
armigerous family. The second is a conference in
collaboration with Canterbury Christ Church
University College at the College over the weekend of
7th - 9th December, entitled “Cathedrals,
Communities and Conflict, 1000-1350”. This will
include matters of chivalry and heraldry in the period.
Further details can be obtained from Dr Charles Insley,
Dept of History and American Studies, Canterbury
Christ Church University, North Holmes Road,
Canterbury CT1 1QU or by e-mail
charles.insley@canterbury.ac.uk or telephone 01227-
454700.
photographic
competition
The 2007 Photographic Competition was announced
in the March issue of the “Gazette" and an entry form
was included with the June issue. Please remember
that the closing date is 30th October. The judging
panel hopes that there will be a good number of
interesting and amusing entries, so please do your
best!
HIGH SHERIFF
of LANCASHIRE
by Alan Fennely
On Friday 25 May 2007, the High Sheriff of
Lancashire, Mrs Ruth Winterbottom, presented her
shield to Mr Gordon Johnson DL, the Constable of
Lancaster Castle, prior to hanging it in the Shire Hall,
alongside the shields of previous High Sheriffs.
Mrs Winterbottom’s shield of arms with its border
checky reflects her distinguished career spanning 30
years with the Lancashire Constabulary. It is placed in
pretence over the arms of her husband Mr Max
Winterbottom, who is a former Chief Executive of
Lancashire County Council and Deputy Lieutenant of
Lancashire.
This year’s event was attended by the Hon Mr
Justice Patten, Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine
of Lancaster, and Mr Thomas Woodcock, LVO DL,
Norroy and Ulster King of Arms.
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e afraid . . .
Members of the cast of ‘Orvin’, (featured in the last issue of the Gazette). Are they
presenting a show of force to point out to the editor that St Mary’s School is in MELROSE
and not MONTROSE? The editor is suitably shamefaced and apologetic.
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october
1 Lancashire Irish Heraldry John Mackie
3 Norfolk Local Heroes - Public Sculpture in Norfolk & Suffolk Richard Cocke
6 Middlesex The Walthamstow Armorial and Related Heraldry Clive Alexander
12 Manchester Annual Heraldry Study Day
17 Heraldry Society The Constance Egan Lecture
Heraldry and Animals
Arline Fisher
17 Isle of Wight Heraldic Windows at Northcourt, Shorwell
WORKSHOP
17 Somerset Annual Dinner
20 Bath The Heraldry of Honour (augmentations) Roland Symons
20 Cheshire Les Pierson’s ‘Heraldry and the English Coinage’ John E Titterton
20 Chiltern The Heraldry of St Etheldreda’s, Ely Place Dr Malcolm Golin
31 Yorkshire
november
West Yorkshire Archive Service
3 Middlesex Tiaras, Hats and Pikes Stephen Kibbey
5 Lanacashire Arms of Tudor Queens Alan Fennely
7 Norfolk The Order of Saint Lazarus Rev Canon Jeremy Haselock
7 Yorkshire Committee Meeting
11 Somerset Armorial Table Carpets Keith Lovell
14 Heraldry Society The Autumn Dinner at Apothecaries Hall
Guest of Honour Mary, Lady Soames LG
17 Bath Aspects of Heraldry in Glamorgan Anthony Jones
17 Norfolk St Edmund’s Lunch
21 Heraldry Society The Mediaeval Origins of Cadency Dr Paul Fox
24 Cheshire More Civic Heraldry Mike Thompson
28 Yorkshire
december
Sporting Heraldry David Krause
3 Lancashire Seasonal Fun Evening John & All
8 Bath Christmas Party - Seasonal Heraldry Michael Messer
10 Heraldry Society Annual General Meeting followed by Heraldic Quiz
12 Yorkshire Members’ Evening
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almanac of events
the 2007-08 lecture programme
Council has now approved the 2007-08 lecture programme, and a copy of the Programme Card is included with
this issue of the “Gazette”. It promises to be a varied and interesting programme, with something for everyone.
We are relying on the builders being out of the Antiquaries premises in time for us to return there for the
October lecture. For the one in September we shall again be visiting the Hall of the Swedenborg Society in
Bloomsbury Way (entrance in Barter Street). A notice about this has gone to all those who attended the last
two lectures in the previous season and we hope that there will be a good attendance. The relationship between
arms and flags can be mysterious at times and we look forward to having it made clearer for us. After a general
introduction to heraldry, the course will cover marshalling and cadency, and how to identify an armigerous
family.
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membership news
We welcome the following new members:
Nicholas Adams Cambridge
Richard Fellows Bishopsbourne
Rev. Peter Gerbrandy-Baird Scotland
The Society has heard with regret of the death of
the following:
F C Beresford
M F McCarthy
Lt. Col. J F Willcocks
2007 annual general
The 2007 Annual General Meeting will be held at the
Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly,
London W1 at 6.30 pm on Monday 10th December.
Please note your diary now.A formal notice is enclosed
with this issue.
Members are reminded that the Articles provide that a
member of the Society may nominate another member
for election to the Council provided the nomination is
made not less than six weeks before the AGM (which
this year means before 29th October) and
accompanied by written consent to nomination signed
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PERCY VANT HERALD WITH A DIFFERENCE by Peter Field
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National
RRooyyaall HHeerraallddrryy SSoocciieettyy ooff CCaannaaddaa
www.heraldry.ca
Contact:: John Wilkes,
RHSC,
P.O. Box 8128
Terminal T, Ottawa, ON K1G
3H9, Canada
secretary@heraldry.ca
FFllaagg IInnssttiittuuttee
www.flaginstitute.org
Contact: Michael A Faul,
44 Middleton Road, Acomb,
York YO24 3AS Phone 01904
33 9985 info@flaginstitute.org
HHeerraallddrryy AAuussttrraalliiaa
Regular meetings in Sydney and
Canberra. Occasional meetings in
Melbourne. Contact: Stephen Michael
Szabo, Hon. Secretary,
PO Box 107 LAWSON
NSW 2783 Australia
heraldry_aust@optusnet.com.au
HHeerraallddrryy SSoocciieettyy ooff SSccoottllaanndd
www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk
Meetings held at various
locations. Contact: Charles
Napier, 40 Morningside Drive,
Edinburgh, EH10 5LZ.
SSoocciieettyy ooff GGeenneeaallooggiissttss
www.sog.org.uk
14 Charterhouse Buildings,
Goswell Road, London EC1M
7BA Phone 0207 553 3290
SSoocciieettyy ooff HHeerraallddiicc AArrttss
www.heraldic-arts.com
Contact: John Ferguson, Phone
01737 242 945
WWhhiittee LLiioonn SSoocciieettyy
www.whitelionsociety.org.uk
Society of Friends of the
College of Arms
Contact: Roland Symons, 5
Weatherley Avenue, Odd Down,
BATH BA2 2PF
Local
contacts
CCiittyy ooff BBaatthh
Meetings are held at Manvers
Street Baptist Church Halls,
Bath. 2.30 pm. Secretary:
Stephen Slater, Flat 8, Portway
House, The Portway, Warminster, Wilts
BA121 8QQ. Phone 01985 847228
BBiirrmmiinngghhaamm aanndd MMiiddllaanndd
Contact: Adrian de Redman,
Phone 0121-608 5496. The
Group meets 4th Tuesday
(except Aug & Dec) in the
Kingsley-Norris Room, Birmingham &
Midland Institute, 7.15 pm.
CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy
www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cuhags/
Contact: Derek Palgrave,
Crossfield House, Stanton,
IP31 2DY
DerekPalgrave@btinternet.com
CChheesshhiirree The group meets at Townley
Street Sunday School,
Macclesfield at
2.30 pm. Contact: Mr Harold
Storey 2 Orchard Close, Cheadle Hulme
SK8 7ET Phone 0161 4853786
CChhiilltteerrnnss The group meets at various
locations. Contact: John Allen,
Phone 0118 947 8712
GGrreeaatteerr MMaanncchheesstteerr
Contact: Alan Fennely, 16 Paderborn
Court, Bolton, BL1 4TX
Phone 01204 532915
IIssllee ooff WWiigghhtt
Meetings are held at The Riverside
Centre, Newport, IOW.
Contact: Jean Peters, San Fernando, Burnt
House Lane, Alverstone, Sandown, Isle of
Wight PO36 0HB. Phone 01983 403060
peters.sanfernando@tesco.net
LLaannccaasshhiirree
http://members.aol.com/lancsheraldry
The group meets on the first
Monday of each month at St
Stephen’s Parish Centre,
Broadgate, Preston at 7.30
pm. Contact: Chris Ward, 87
Palmer Road, Blackburn BB1 8BS Phone
01254 53866
chrisward1@btinternet.com
MMeerrsseeyyssiiddee
Philip Jackson, 38 Heygarth Road,
Eastham, Cheshire, CH62 8AE.
Phone 0151 327 3491
MMiiddddlleesseexx
www.middlesex-heraldry.org.uk
Meetings held at the Guide Hut,
Bury Street, Ruislip. Contact:
Mrs Margaret Young, 34
Farthings Close, Eastcote, Pinner,
Middx, HA5 2QR, Phone 0208
868 8750.
NNoorrffoollkk
www.norfolkheraldry.co.uk
Meetings are held at United
Reformed Church, Princes
Street, Norwich, 7.45 pm on
the first Wednesday of the
month.
Contact: Philippa Sims, 26c Shotesham
Road, Poringland, Norfolk NR14 7LG.
SSoommeerrsseett Contact: Alex Findlater: The
Grammar House, The Hill,
Langport, Somerset TA10
9UP; 01458 250868; email
alex@findlater.org.uk.
SSttaaffffoorrddsshhiirree
Contact: Graham Phillips, 1
Foxleigh Meadows, Handsacre
Staffs WS15 4TG
Phone 01543 492794
graham@phillips8106.fsworld.co.uk
SSuuffffoollkk
Contact: Donald Hunt, 81a
Southgate St, Bury St
Edmunds, IP33 2BJ
Phone 01284 763462
YYoorrkksshhiirree
www28.brinkster.com/yksheraldrysoc
Meetings are held at
Headingley Parish Centre, St
Michael’s Road, Headingley,
Leeds at 7.15pm. Contact:
David Krause, 6 Corrance Road, Wyke,
Bradford BD12 9LH Phone 01274
679272.
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year in the September issue of the
Heraldry Gazette. Amendments will
appear as individual items in intervening
issues
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inclusion to the Editor.
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