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THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER<br />
OF THE HERALDRY SOCIETY REGISTERED AT STATIONERS HALL<br />
ISSN 0437 2980<br />
THE HERALDRY<br />
GAZETTE<br />
NEW SERIES 105<br />
S<strong>ep</strong>tember 2007<br />
Mary, Lady Soames LG DBE<br />
Guest of Honour at the <strong>Heraldry</strong> <strong>Society</strong> Autumn Dinner - Wednesday 14 November 2007<br />
Illustrated is the design for the Garter Banner now hanging in St George’s Chapel, Windsor. <strong>The</strong> mallets in<br />
the arms of Soames are in fact Or. By kind permission of Garter King of Arms.<br />
To contact the Membership Secretary, Ingrid Phillips, write to: PO Box 772, Guildford GU3 3ZX<br />
phone: 01483 237373 email: memsec@theheraldrysociety.com<br />
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MARY, LADY SOAMES LG DBE<br />
by David White<br />
<strong>The</strong> Guest of Honour at the <strong>Society</strong>’s Dinner at<br />
Apothecaries Hall in November is to be Lady Soames,<br />
LG, DBE.<br />
Mary Soames, now 85, has had a remarkable life,<br />
much of it spent at the centre of the British political<br />
world. <strong>The</strong> daughter of Sir Winston Churchill, and the<br />
wife of Christopher Soames, cabinet minister,<br />
Ambassador to Paris, and final British Governor of<br />
Rhodesia, she has also carved out a career for herself<br />
as a writer and arts administrator. When, in 2005, the<br />
Queen appointed her as only the third non-Royal Lady<br />
of the Garter it was widely welcomed as an inspired<br />
choice.<br />
Her parents, Winston Churchill and Clementine<br />
Hozier, married in 1908 and she was the youngest of<br />
their five children. Mary Soames is the final survivor.<br />
Her father bought Chartwell, his house in Kent,<br />
shortly after Mary was born in 1922 and it was there<br />
that her childhood was spent; visitors to the now<br />
National Trust property can see the Wendy house built<br />
in the garden for her. <strong>The</strong> age gap between her and<br />
her nearest sibling, Sarah, was such that she has<br />
reflected that her upbringing was more like that of an<br />
only child, ‘I lived chiefly among grown-ups, with<br />
whom I was on the whole more at ease than with<br />
children of my own age’. Attending two Kentish day<br />
schools she was at home at Chartwell to meet some of<br />
the many visitors who called upon Winston Churchill,<br />
not just politicians but others, including Walter Sickert<br />
and Lawrence of Arabia. In early childhood she was<br />
unaware of the fame and importance of her father,<br />
who would allow her to ‘help’ him with his bricklaying.<br />
But as a teenager she was treated by him as fully adult<br />
and asked her opinion of current affairs.<br />
After her father had become Prime Minister in<br />
1940, she was, to her considerable annoyance, sent by<br />
her parents to live at Chequers to avoid the Blitz. Not<br />
yet of military age, she worked as a billeting officer for<br />
the WVS in Aylesbury. At 18 she joined up, spending<br />
the next five years in the Auxiliary Territorial Service,<br />
first as a private, then as a sergeant, and ultimately as<br />
a junior officer. She could not escape being the Prime<br />
Minister’s daughter. ‘It was much easier’ she has said<br />
‘when I was in the ranks. Once you were an officer it<br />
was much more of a struggle to be acc<strong>ep</strong>ted. I<br />
remember my terror whenever I was sent to a new<br />
Mary, Lady Soames wearing her robes as a Lady<br />
Companion of the Order of the Garter, in procession to<br />
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle for the annual<br />
service of the Order of the Garter on 19 June 20<strong>06</strong>.<br />
Photograph by Philip Allfrey in Wikipedia Commons<br />
unit’. Her work was in anti-aircraft batteries. For a<br />
period she was posted to a battery in Hyde Park, where<br />
her father would sometimes ‘drop in’ when she was on<br />
duty. She witnessed the flying bomb fall on the<br />
Guards Chapel.<br />
Later she was on the coast at Hastings, shooting at<br />
flying bombs as they came across the Channel, before<br />
she moved on to make up part of the defences of<br />
liberated Brussels. But her war service also entailed<br />
serving as an ADC to her father during his visits to<br />
Quebec and Potsdam. Stalin she remembers as ‘small,<br />
dapper and rather twinkly’.<br />
In 1947 she married Christopher Soames, who had<br />
spent the war in the Coldstream Guards, but who soon<br />
now left the army and began running the farm at<br />
Chartwell. In 1950 he was elected MP for Bedford<br />
and Mary Soames threw herself into the work of an<br />
MP’s wife in the constituency. But she felt her mother<br />
had been too much the political wife, and for her own<br />
children she would always make the school holidays<br />
sacrosanct.<br />
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Christopher Soames has been described as ‘a figure<br />
very much larger than life. His conversation could<br />
usually be heard in the next room’. He served as<br />
Parliamentary Private Secretary to his father-in-law in<br />
the last two year of his second premiership, and rose<br />
on through the ministerial ranks to become Secretary<br />
of State for War in 1958, and subsequently Minister of<br />
Agriculture from 1960 to 1964. Throughout all this<br />
Mary was at his side. <strong>The</strong> loss of his Bedford seat at<br />
the 1966 General Election seemed a blow. In 1968<br />
he was still looking for another seat in Parliament<br />
when the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, made his<br />
quite unexpected offer to send him to Paris as the<br />
British Ambassador. His special task was to pr<strong>ep</strong>are<br />
the ground for British entry to the Common Market.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Paris embassy is a fine and very grand 18th<br />
century house, at one time the home of Pauline<br />
Borghese, Napoleon’s sister. It was here that Mary<br />
Soames spent four happy and highly fulfilling years<br />
supporting her husband, entertaining at her table,<br />
among others, Presidents De Gaulle and Pompidou,<br />
and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Large Soames<br />
family parties were held at Christmas, to which Mary’s<br />
now widowed mother came over from England.<br />
After Paris, Christopher and Mary Soames were in<br />
Brussels where he served as Vice President of the<br />
European Commission from 1973 to 1977. Here she<br />
did not feel as involved in her husband’s work as she<br />
had living ‘in the shop’ in Paris. She began<br />
researching the life of her mother, Clementine<br />
Churchill, which was published to great acclaim and<br />
success in 1979.<br />
<strong>The</strong> election of a Conservative Government in 1979<br />
saw Christopher Soames return to the cabinet as<br />
Leader of the House of Lords. <strong>The</strong> hardest task of his<br />
career came later that year when he was appointed as<br />
Governor of Southern Rhodesia to oversee elections<br />
and the granting of ind<strong>ep</strong>endence to the long<br />
troublesome colony. In this he was successful and<br />
much praised as was his wife who was with him in<br />
Rhodesia, or Zimbabwe as it soon became. For her<br />
services there she was appointed DBE in 1980. <strong>The</strong><br />
subsequent history of Zimbabwe and the behaviour of<br />
President Mugabe has greatly distressed her.<br />
Christopher Soames died in 1987. In widowhood<br />
Mary Soames found a new role at the National<br />
<strong>The</strong>atre, chairing its governing body for six years. She<br />
has continued to write, publishing a history of the 5th<br />
Duke of Marlborough and his Duchess, an account of<br />
her father as a painter, and an edition of her parents’<br />
letters to each other.<br />
Those who have seen the Garter procession at<br />
Windsor in recent years will know that Lady Soames<br />
cuts a very elegant and impressive figure. We are<br />
greatly looking forward to having her as the <strong>Society</strong>’s<br />
Guest of Honour.<br />
GREATER MANCHESTER<br />
HERALDRY SOCIETY<br />
ANNUAL HERALDRY STUDY<br />
DAY<br />
Supported by <strong>The</strong> <strong>Heraldry</strong> <strong>Society</strong> and by the<br />
Cheshire & Lancashire <strong>Heraldry</strong> Societies<br />
at<br />
HELMSLEY HALL, SALFORD<br />
(opposite the UNIVERSITY)<br />
FRIDAY OCTOBER 12th 2007<br />
10.30am until 4.00pm<br />
This Year’s Speakers are<br />
Malcolm Howe<br />
<strong>Heraldry</strong> of Sharples with appendix to his<br />
previous talks to us<br />
Hugh Murray<br />
Arms of the Archbishops of York<br />
St<strong>ep</strong>hen Slater<br />
Insignia of the Royal Household<br />
Jim Winstanley<br />
Heraldic Art and Design<br />
Tickets £15.00<br />
inclusive of welcome coffee & lunch<br />
Obtainable from the Treasurer<br />
Barry Wilde<br />
Thornfield<br />
60 Thorn Road<br />
Swinton<br />
SALFORD M27 5QT<br />
Full Programme and Directions will be<br />
sent with Ticket<br />
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CUHAGS GRANT of ARMS<br />
by John Tunesi of Liongam<br />
Saturday, the 9th June<br />
transpired to be a glorious<br />
summer’s evening on which<br />
to hold the Golden<br />
Anniversary and Accession<br />
Banquet of the Cambridge<br />
University Heraldic and<br />
Genealogical <strong>Society</strong><br />
(CUHAGS) in the Great Hall<br />
at Clare College.<br />
During the course of the<br />
evening and celebratory of<br />
the fact that the <strong>Society</strong> was<br />
about to reach its 50th<br />
anniversary on the 10th<br />
June, Peter Gwynn-Jones,<br />
Garter Principal King of Arms<br />
along with David White,<br />
Somerset Herald of Arms (the<br />
agent in the case and past<br />
President of the <strong>Society</strong>)<br />
presented the Letters Patent<br />
of the <strong>Society</strong>'s new grant of<br />
armorial bearings to this<br />
year’s President, Monica<br />
Morrill. Although, for many<br />
years, the <strong>Society</strong> (like a great<br />
many other societies within<br />
the university) had made use<br />
of the University's arms it<br />
was thought some time ago<br />
that the <strong>Society</strong> should consider petitioning for its own arms. At first, it was thought a grant of a badge might<br />
suffice as the <strong>Society</strong> was technically 'd<strong>ep</strong>endant' upon the university. Enquiries were made in this respect and<br />
it was decided that the <strong>Society</strong> was ind<strong>ep</strong>endent of the university so could therefore petition for a grant of<br />
armorial bearings in its own right. <strong>The</strong> time was now ripe. For the golden jubilee of the <strong>Society</strong> was looming. So<br />
during the course of the last year, a committee was formed to consider the design of the proposed arms. At<br />
length, a pleasing design was chosen and approved by Garter and subsequently granted.<br />
Although I have not seen the blazon as I did not have a chance on the night to view the finished grant at<br />
first hand owing to the press of people attending, I believe the arms and crest may be blazoned (on the hoof<br />
so to speak) as follows:<br />
Arms: Or a cross conjoined to a bordure pean between four lion's faces gules langued azure.<br />
Crest: A demi lion guardant or langued azure holding in its dexter paw a crane's leg erased a la quise gules<br />
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feathered gold and resting its sinister paw upon a<br />
book its spine uppermost proper bound gules and<br />
garnished or.<br />
Motto: 'Caeruleus candidus vincet' (loosely<br />
translated, I believe to be: 'Let the light blues<br />
conquer’).<br />
Garter King of Arms reading from the letters patent,<br />
and in the background this year’s President, Monica<br />
Morrill, to whom the grant of arms was presented.<br />
<strong>The</strong> use of the book, cross, lion's faces and the<br />
demi lion reflect the university's arms in some respect;<br />
whilst the use of the fur pean acts as a remembrance<br />
to the fact that this particular fur has been used as the<br />
<strong>Society</strong>'s 'colour' for many a long year. <strong>The</strong> use of<br />
both or and sable also alludes to the home of the<br />
society for its meetings: Clare College. <strong>The</strong> crane's leg<br />
in the crest refers to the genealogical aspect of the<br />
<strong>Society</strong>: from the French 'pied de grue', the origin of<br />
the word pedigree. <strong>The</strong> light blue as mentioned in the<br />
motto is the traditional 'colour' of the university as<br />
opposed to the dark blue of the other place (ie:<br />
Oxford).<br />
BIRMINGHAM<br />
CONFERENCE<br />
by Melvyn Jeremiah<br />
Enthusiastic expert heraldists from the Midlands<br />
and further afield gathered in the magnificent setting<br />
of the Birmingham City Council chamber on Monday<br />
and Tuesday 6th- 7th August for the second<br />
conference arranged by Adrian de Redman HonFHS,<br />
Birmingham City Armorist. <strong>The</strong> topic was<br />
contemporary grants of arms, in practice grants over<br />
the last forty years or so. A number of speakers<br />
explained the process and significance of grants either<br />
to themselves or with which they had been associated<br />
in some way. <strong>The</strong> President of the Conference, Robert<br />
Noel Lancaster Herald, enthralled his audience with<br />
examples of modern grants by the College of Arms. In<br />
subsequent discussion it was emphasised to him that<br />
the listing of grantees in the regular College<br />
newsletter was not much good in the absence of both<br />
blazon and illustration of the arms that had been<br />
granted to them. This led on to a plea for the College<br />
to make available in some way its records of grants,<br />
particularly those since the last general armories were<br />
published. <strong>The</strong>se grants were matters of public record<br />
and it was not good enough to have them squirreled<br />
away in the College’s Records with no public<br />
availability. Mr Lancaster promised to take that<br />
message back to the College.<br />
On the Monday evening a Conference Dinner was<br />
held in the St Paul’s Club, with the D<strong>ep</strong>uty Lord Mayor<br />
and Mayoress as Guests of Honour. All present<br />
enjoyed a most convivial evening. In his after dinner<br />
remarks the D<strong>ep</strong>uty Lord Mayor, Councillor John<br />
Sharpe, r<strong>ep</strong>eated the warm welcome he had extended<br />
to the Conference in opening the proceedings earlier<br />
in the day. In closing the Conference on Tuesday he<br />
emphasised that the City would welcome a further<br />
such gathering in the future. <strong>The</strong> hospitality extended<br />
by the City was excellent and the assistance given by<br />
the Corporation’s staff was much appreciated. <strong>The</strong><br />
participants were united in hoping that there would<br />
indeed be another opportunity to meet in such<br />
rewarding circumstances.<br />
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A UNIQUE GIFT<br />
by Baz Manning<br />
In 20<strong>06</strong> I was asked by a Greek client to paint the<br />
arms of his lifelong friend as a Christmas present for<br />
him. <strong>The</strong> friend was the younger son of the second<br />
Viscount Hailsham, the well known Conservative<br />
politician Quintin Hogg. <strong>The</strong> arms had been granted in<br />
1846 (College of Arms Grants 48, 165) and the<br />
supporters added in 1928 when Quintin's father was<br />
made Baron on becoming, as the post was then<br />
known, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. <strong>The</strong>y are<br />
Arms: Argent three boars' heads erased between two<br />
<strong>The</strong> arms of the first Lord Hailsham r<strong>ep</strong>roduced with<br />
the kind permission of the Honourable <strong>Society</strong> of<br />
Lincoln’s Inn<br />
flaunches azure each charged with a crescent argent.<br />
Crest: Out of an eastern crown argent an oak tree<br />
fructed proper pendent therefrom an escutcheon azure<br />
charged with a dexter arm embowed in armour the<br />
hand grasping an arrow in bend sinister point<br />
downwards also proper. Supporters: On either side a<br />
ram argent armed and unguled or gorged with a<br />
baron's coronet the dexter supporting the Lord High<br />
Chancellor's mace the sinister the Lord High<br />
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Chancellor's purse proper. <strong>The</strong> purse is used in the<br />
House of Lords and was embroidered by the Royal<br />
School of Needlework with the full Royal Arms in<br />
appliqué with a border of cherubs. As born by the ram<br />
it becomes one of the smallest coats of arms on a coat<br />
of arms in the world of heraldry. I have heard of the<br />
full Royal Arms being granted centuries ago on a<br />
canton which must surely be the smallest example<br />
ever. (Do any readers know the story behind that one?)<br />
<strong>The</strong> last Lord Chancellor, Baron Irvine of Lairg, has<br />
recently been granted arms in Scotland which include<br />
the same purse being carried by a trainbearer of the<br />
House of Lords. As this is Lord Irvine's crest it has to<br />
be smaller than the Hailshams' version, an even more<br />
demanding challenge to the chosen artists.<br />
<strong>The</strong> erasing of a boar's head is a small point but an<br />
important one. Whereas some authors such as Elvin in<br />
the 1880s made no distinction, Fox-Davies just a few<br />
years later stated clearly that an English boar's head<br />
is erased horizontally (at the throat, you could say)<br />
while a Scottish animal was erased vertically (at the<br />
neck). This also applied to couped and is still valid<br />
today. In recent years our English heralds have decided<br />
to refer to the Scottish method as erased behind the<br />
ears, an effective distinction at last. <strong>The</strong> Hoggs' heads<br />
have always been erased in the Scottish fashion<br />
despite being granted in England, with no mention of
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this being made in the blazon. <strong>The</strong> reasons seem lost<br />
in obscurity.<br />
I already knew the Hogg arms well as I had painted<br />
versions of them for Lincoln's Inn, where all three<br />
Viscounts, including the current one, and his sister<br />
Dame Mary, have been Benchers. Because of this it<br />
was agreed that the gift should be painted as if it were<br />
a panel from the walls of Lincoln's Inn's Great Hall.<br />
<strong>The</strong> client told me he remembered his friend talking as<br />
a boy about his maternal grandfather, Richard<br />
Martin's arms. I could find no published record of<br />
these so the client decided to approach the College of<br />
Arms to make sure one way or the other. He was told<br />
that Ulster Pedigrees 2. 238 in the College records<br />
listed the arms in question and that they had been<br />
confirmed in 1907. As Richard's daughter was an only<br />
child the herald told my client that the current<br />
generation of Hoggs were entitled to quarter their<br />
mother's arms. This was a fact quite unknown to them<br />
and was k<strong>ep</strong>t secret until the arms were presented. <strong>The</strong><br />
Martin arms are azure a cross Calvary argent the<br />
dexter arm terminating in a sun in splendour the<br />
sinister in a decrescent both or. Remarkably both Hogg<br />
tinctures were r<strong>ep</strong>eated as well as one of the charges,<br />
NEW ARCHBISHOP of MALTA<br />
by Rev Geoffrey Attard<br />
After the thirty year <strong>ep</strong>iscopate of Gozitan born Archbishop<br />
Mgr. Jos<strong>ep</strong>h Mercieca, the archdiocese of Malta has passed into<br />
the hands of Dominican friar Mgr. Pawlu Cremona OP. Mgr.<br />
Cremona was ordained at Saint John’s Co-Cathedral, once the<br />
conventual church of the Knights of Malta on the island, on the<br />
26th of January 2007.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new coat of arms for the newly ordained archbishop<br />
comprises a shield party per pale for his family arms and a chief<br />
r<strong>ep</strong>resenting the Dominican Order, a black cape on a white habit.<br />
To the dexter the arms featuring three flowers with four petals<br />
each r<strong>ep</strong>resents the Archbishop’s paternal surname ‘Cremona’<br />
while the sinister bearing the image of a dolphin is a reflection of<br />
his mother’s surname ‘Cauchi’.<br />
<strong>The</strong> rank of archbishop is denoted by the Pallium bearing<br />
black crosses (granted to new archbishops every year on the feast<br />
of St Peter and St Paul on the 29th June) and the green Galero<br />
(ecclesiastical hat with ten tassels r<strong>ep</strong>resenting the grade of<br />
archbishop).<br />
<strong>The</strong> Maltese motto of Archbishop Cremona is ‘Hejju t-triq<br />
ghall-Mulej’ which in English is translated as ‘Pr<strong>ep</strong>are the way for<br />
the Lord’.<br />
making for a visually perfect quartering of the arms. I<br />
chose to lighten the blue I used for the shield and crest<br />
in an attempt to give them emphasis over the blue of<br />
the mantling. This is less effective in the photo than it<br />
was on the painting and was never meant to be as<br />
dramatic a difference as bleu celeste. <strong>The</strong> shield is the<br />
only d<strong>ep</strong>arture from a Lincoln's Inn panel, which all<br />
have variations of heaters. <strong>The</strong> quarters fitted nicely<br />
into this shape, whereas a true heater squashed the<br />
lower quarters unacc<strong>ep</strong>tably. <strong>The</strong> mantling is the<br />
modern version, developed from that used for the Inn<br />
in the 1960s by their artist at the time, Frank Newsom<br />
Berry.<br />
James Hogg not only ended up with an unexpected<br />
painting of his arms for Christmas but equally<br />
unexpected proof that he and his family were entitled<br />
to quartered arms. In this generation James may be<br />
the only one to use them though, as his brother and<br />
sister have decided to remain with the unquartered<br />
arms they have used all their lives. This is an irony<br />
readers may appreciate as there are many modern<br />
armorists who would do anything to add quarters to<br />
their own shields.<br />
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an heraldic weekend<br />
CAMBRIDGE 2008<br />
<strong>The</strong> Council and the Congress Committee are<br />
pleased to confirm that the <strong>Society</strong>’s next heraldic<br />
weekend will take place at Fitzwilliam College,<br />
Cambridge over the weekend 5th-7th S<strong>ep</strong>tember<br />
2008.<br />
<strong>The</strong> topic of the weekend is to be ‘Knights and<br />
Knighthood’.<br />
<strong>The</strong> format of the weekend will be, as usual, with<br />
delegates arriving for registration in the late afternoon<br />
on the Friday and d<strong>ep</strong>arting after lunch on the Sunday<br />
afternoon. <strong>The</strong> Congress Committee are presently<br />
putting together a full and varied programme of<br />
lectures, together with an excursion that should be of<br />
interest to all delegates. <strong>The</strong>re will be a formal dinner<br />
on the Saturday evening to which members are<br />
encouraged as per usual to bring their Table Banners.<br />
As with previous weekends there will be an<br />
opportunity for delegates, who wish to be nonresidential,<br />
to attend on a daily basis.<br />
We shall be running throughout the weekend an<br />
exhibition of heraldic artwork and for next year we are<br />
requesting delegates attending to bring with them<br />
items of heraldic interest which they would be happy<br />
to exhibit.<br />
Please find within this mailing the initial booking<br />
form for the event. <strong>The</strong> Congress Committee looks<br />
forward to receiving your bookings, remembering that<br />
there is a discount of £10 per delegate if the form and<br />
£25.00 d<strong>ep</strong>osit is received before 31st December<br />
2007.<br />
On receipt of the booking form, delegates will be<br />
sent a form requesting them to supply dietary,<br />
mobility, car parking and other administrative<br />
requirements that will allow all delegates to have an<br />
enjoyable weekend. Please note that although there<br />
are more than adequate parking spaces on<br />
Fitzwilliam’s campus, we will need to know how many<br />
delegates intend driving to Cambridge in order to give<br />
warning to the college.<br />
We hope to see many old and new friends at<br />
Cambridge next S<strong>ep</strong>tember.<br />
John & Jane Tunesi of Liongam<br />
Congress Committee<br />
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HERALDRY OF NEW LIFE PEERS<br />
by Peter Ll Gwynn-Jones CVO, Garter Principal King of Arms<br />
Baron Drayson (Paul Rudd Drayson) cr 2004 (Baron Drayson, of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington<br />
and Chelsea)<br />
Arms: Sable a Mullet of eight points gyronny Or and Argent between four strands of DNA<br />
issuing in saltire Argent and four strands of DNA issuing in cross Or<br />
Crest A Wolf statant Sable supporting with the dexter for<strong>ep</strong>aw a Driving Wheel Or<br />
Supporters: On either side a Jaguar Sable holding in the interior for<strong>ep</strong>aw a Rapier Argent<br />
hilt pommel and guard Or<br />
Badge A Jaguar rampant Sable holding in the dexter for<strong>ep</strong>aw a Rapier Argent hilt pommel<br />
and guard Or<br />
Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland (Derek Foster) cr 2005, PC1993, DL (Co<br />
Durham 2001), (Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, of Bishop Auckland in the County of Durham)<br />
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<strong>The</strong> grantee's interests in fencing and motor racing are featured as is his<br />
career in the pharmaceutical industry which is reflected in the strands of<br />
DNA.<br />
Arms: Azure two Pallets interlaced with two Barrulets Or all between four Mitres Argent<br />
Crest: An Auk Azure beaked and supporting with the dexter foot a Crozier Or<br />
Supporters: On either side an Otter statant erect Azure supporting with the exterior for<strong>ep</strong>aw<br />
and blowing a Trumpet Or<br />
Badge: An Otter's face Azure surmounting four Trumpets in cross bells outward Argent and<br />
four Trumpets in saltire bells outward Or<br />
<strong>The</strong> association of Durham with a gold cross on an Azure field is featured in a varied form<br />
in the Arms. <strong>The</strong> cross formation is placed between four mitres as a<br />
punning allusion on Bishop Auckland. Punning on Bishop Auckland is<br />
also extended into the Crest.<br />
In addition to being an industrious animal, the otter is associated with<br />
rivers and Bishop Auckland is sited on the River Wear. It is d<strong>ep</strong>icted in<br />
association with trumpets as the grantee has a particular interest in<br />
brass bands.<br />
Baron Patel of Bradford (Kamlesh Kumar Patel) cr 20<strong>06</strong>, OBE (Baron Patel of Bradford, of Bradford in the<br />
County of West Yorkshire)<br />
Arms: Quarterly Gules and Azure a Rose Argent barbed seeded and issuing from each<br />
barb a Protea slipped Or<br />
Crest: Out of a Lotus Or a Peacock's Head Azure beaked Or<br />
Supporters: On the dexter an El<strong>ep</strong>hant Azure the trappings Gules fringed and tasselled Or<br />
and on the sinister an El<strong>ep</strong>hant Gules the trappings Azure fringed and tasselled and both<br />
armed Or<br />
Badge: A Rose Argent barbed seeded and issuing from each<br />
barb a Protea slipped Or<br />
<strong>The</strong> Yorkshire rose is combined in these Armorial Bearings with<br />
the protea of South Africa with Indian allusions in Crest and<br />
Supporters.<br />
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Baron Goulld of Broookwood (Philip Gould) cr 2004 (Baron Gould of Brookwood, of Brookwood in the County of<br />
Surrey)<br />
Arms: Azure on a Bend nowy lozengy per bend Argent and Or a Bendlet Azure<br />
Crest: A Badger sejant erect Azure head and chest Argent eyes striped Azure gorged<br />
with a plain Collar studded Or and grasping in the dexter for<strong>ep</strong>aw a Quill palewise<br />
Argent spined Or<br />
Supporters: On either side a Badger Azure the head and chest Argent eyes striped Azure<br />
gorged with a plain Collar studded Or and holding in the mouth a Rose Gules barbed<br />
seeded slipped and leaved Or<br />
Badge: A Roundel set with ten Acorns leaved Or and charged with a Badger's Face<br />
Argent eyes striped Azure<br />
<strong>The</strong> Arms reflect the grantee's wish for simplicity as well as<br />
suggesting a graph or opinion poll. <strong>The</strong> roses refer to the grantee's<br />
part in the choice of the red rose as the emblem of the Labour party.<br />
<strong>The</strong> badgers and acorns are an obvious pun on Brookwood.<br />
Baron Marland (Jonathan Peter Marland) cr 20<strong>06</strong> ( Baron Marland, of Odstock in the County of Wiltshire)<br />
Arms: Azure on each of three Bars wavy Or two Martlets respectant Sable<br />
Crest: A Lion sejant erect Or gorged with a plain Collar attached thereto a Line terminating<br />
in a ring Sable and holding between the forefeet a Bobbin also Sable the Yarn Or<br />
Supporters: On either side a Labrador Sable gorged with a plain Collar Or and holding in<br />
the interior for<strong>ep</strong>aw three Bulrushes Sable slipped and leaved Or<br />
Badge: Two Martlets respectant that on the dexter quarterly Sable and Or and that on the<br />
sinister quarterly Or and Sable<br />
<strong>The</strong> Arms are a variation on those hitherto borne by the family without proper authority.<br />
Black labradors have been increasingly popular in heraldry; and in this instance they are<br />
shown holding bullrushes as the grantee is Chairman of a marshland environmental<br />
project.<br />
<strong>The</strong> bobbin in the Crest refers to the grantee's wife Penelope.<br />
<strong>The</strong> classical Penelope was associated with weaving a<br />
winding sheet during the absence of her husband Odysseus.<br />
Baron James of Blackheath (David Noel James) cr 20<strong>06</strong>, CBE (Baron James of Blackheath, of Wildbrooks in<br />
the County of West Sussex)<br />
Arms: Quarterly Or and Argent on a Cross Gules between four Trumpets in saltire<br />
bells outwards Gules banded Or a Cross quarterly Argent and Or<br />
Crest: Statant upon a Violin Bridge Gules a Cricket Or<br />
Supporters: On either side a Greyhound Gules gorged with a plain Collar attached<br />
thereto a Chain reflexed over the back Or holding in the mouth a Rose Argent<br />
barbed seeded slipped and leaved Or<br />
Badge: Three Escallops in pall flukes inwards and abutting Gules each crowned with<br />
an Ancient Crown Or<br />
Music, cricket and greyhounds are of particular interest to<br />
the grantee. Music is r<strong>ep</strong>resented by the violin bridge and<br />
trumpets with cricket by the cricket insect. <strong>The</strong>re is a<br />
variation on St George's cross and the escallops in the<br />
Badge are the emblem of St James and hence a pun on the<br />
grantee's title.<br />
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search for an indexer<br />
We were much obligated to the late Captain Barrie<br />
Kent for undertaking the task of indexing the subject<br />
matter of “<strong>The</strong> <strong>Heraldry</strong> Gazette”. We are now looking<br />
for someone to take up the job. If you think you have<br />
the right skill (and temperament!) for this important<br />
task please drop a note to the Hon.Secretary at the<br />
<strong>Heraldry</strong> <strong>Society</strong> address or send him an e-mail at<br />
honsec_heraldry@excite.co.uk. It will help if you have<br />
a complete set of the “Gazette” from the beginning of<br />
2004 to date.<br />
institute events<br />
<strong>The</strong> Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies is<br />
arranging two events which will be of interest to<br />
members. <strong>The</strong> first is on 27th October at the Institute<br />
in Canterbury, when a Study Day will be held on the<br />
subject of <strong>Heraldry</strong> for Family Historians. It will start<br />
with a general introduction to heraldry and go on to<br />
cover marshalling and cadency, and how to identify an<br />
armigerous family. <strong>The</strong> second is a conference in<br />
collaboration with Canterbury Christ Church<br />
University College at the College over the weekend of<br />
7th - 9th December, entitled “Cathedrals,<br />
Communities and Conflict, 1000-1350”. This will<br />
include matters of chivalry and heraldry in the period.<br />
Further details can be obtained from Dr Charles Insley,<br />
D<strong>ep</strong>t of History and American Studies, Canterbury<br />
Christ Church University, North Holmes Road,<br />
Canterbury CT1 1QU or by e-mail<br />
charles.insley@canterbury.ac.uk or tel<strong>ep</strong>hone 01227-<br />
454700.<br />
photographic<br />
competition<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2007 Photographic Competition was announced<br />
in the March issue of the “Gazette" and an entry form<br />
was included with the June issue. Please remember<br />
that the closing date is 30th October. <strong>The</strong> judging<br />
panel hopes that there will be a good number of<br />
interesting and amusing entries, so please do your<br />
best!<br />
HIGH SHERIFF<br />
of LANCASHIRE<br />
by Alan Fennely<br />
On Friday 25 May 2007, the High Sheriff of<br />
Lancashire, Mrs Ruth Winterbottom, presented her<br />
shield to Mr Gordon Johnson DL, the Constable of<br />
Lancaster Castle, prior to hanging it in the Shire Hall,<br />
alongside the shields of previous High Sheriffs.<br />
Mrs Winterbottom’s shield of arms with its border<br />
checky reflects her distinguished career spanning 30<br />
years with the Lancashire Constabulary. It is placed in<br />
pretence over the arms of her husband Mr Max<br />
Winterbottom, who is a former Chief Executive of<br />
Lancashire County Council and D<strong>ep</strong>uty Lieutenant of<br />
Lancashire.<br />
This year’s event was attended by the Hon Mr<br />
Justice Patten, Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine<br />
of Lancaster, and Mr Thomas Woodcock, LVO DL,<br />
Norroy and Ulster King of Arms.<br />
Items for inclusion in the Gazette: post to the Editor, <strong>The</strong> <strong>Heraldry</strong> Gazette, at the address given on<br />
page 15 or by e-mail to heraldry.gazette@mac.com
e afraid . . .<br />
Members of the cast of ‘Orvin’, (featured in the last issue of the Gazette). Are they<br />
presenting a show of force to point out to the editor that St Mary’s School is in MELROSE<br />
and not MONTROSE? <strong>The</strong> editor is suitably shamefaced and apologetic.<br />
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october<br />
1 Lancashire Irish <strong>Heraldry</strong> John Mackie<br />
3 Norfolk Local Heroes - Public Sculpture in Norfolk & Suffolk Richard Cocke<br />
6 Middlesex <strong>The</strong> Walthamstow Armorial and Related <strong>Heraldry</strong> Clive Alexander<br />
12 Manchester Annual <strong>Heraldry</strong> Study Day<br />
17 <strong>Heraldry</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>The</strong> Constance Egan Lecture<br />
<strong>Heraldry</strong> and Animals<br />
Arline Fisher<br />
17 Isle of Wight Heraldic Windows at Northcourt, Shorwell<br />
WORKSHOP<br />
17 Somerset Annual Dinner<br />
20 Bath <strong>The</strong> <strong>Heraldry</strong> of Honour (augmentations) Roland Symons<br />
20 Cheshire Les Pierson’s ‘<strong>Heraldry</strong> and the English Coinage’ John E Titterton<br />
20 Chiltern <strong>The</strong> <strong>Heraldry</strong> of St Etheldreda’s, Ely Place Dr Malcolm Golin<br />
31 Yorkshire<br />
november<br />
West Yorkshire Archive Service<br />
3 Middlesex Tiaras, Hats and Pikes St<strong>ep</strong>hen Kibbey<br />
5 Lanacashire Arms of Tudor Queens Alan Fennely<br />
7 Norfolk <strong>The</strong> Order of Saint Lazarus Rev Canon Jeremy Haselock<br />
7 Yorkshire Committee Meeting<br />
11 Somerset Armorial Table Carpets Keith Lovell<br />
14 <strong>Heraldry</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>The</strong> Autumn Dinner at Apothecaries Hall<br />
Guest of Honour Mary, Lady Soames LG<br />
17 Bath Aspects of <strong>Heraldry</strong> in Glamorgan Anthony Jones<br />
17 Norfolk St Edmund’s Lunch<br />
21 <strong>Heraldry</strong> <strong>Society</strong> <strong>The</strong> Mediaeval Origins of Cadency Dr Paul Fox<br />
24 Cheshire More Civic <strong>Heraldry</strong> Mike Thompson<br />
28 Yorkshire<br />
december<br />
Sporting <strong>Heraldry</strong> David Krause<br />
3 Lancashire Seasonal Fun Evening John & All<br />
8 Bath Christmas Party - Seasonal <strong>Heraldry</strong> Michael Messer<br />
10 <strong>Heraldry</strong> <strong>Society</strong> Annual General Meeting followed by Heraldic Quiz<br />
12 Yorkshire Members’ Evening<br />
14<br />
almanac of events<br />
the 2007-08 lecture programme<br />
Council has now approved the 2007-08 lecture programme, and a copy of the Programme Card is included with<br />
this issue of the “Gazette”. It promises to be a varied and interesting programme, with something for everyone.<br />
We are relying on the builders being out of the Antiquaries premises in time for us to return there for the<br />
October lecture. For the one in S<strong>ep</strong>tember we shall again be visiting the Hall of the Swedenborg <strong>Society</strong> in<br />
Bloomsbury Way (entrance in Barter Street). A notice about this has gone to all those who attended the last<br />
two lectures in the previous season and we hope that there will be a good attendance. <strong>The</strong> relationship between<br />
arms and flags can be mysterious at times and we look forward to having it made clearer for us. After a general<br />
introduction to heraldry, the course will cover marshalling and cadency, and how to identify an armigerous<br />
family.<br />
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membership news<br />
We welcome the following new members:<br />
Nicholas Adams Cambridge<br />
Richard Fellows Bishopsbourne<br />
Rev. Peter Gerbrandy-Baird Scotland<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Society</strong> has heard with regret of the death of<br />
the following:<br />
F C Beresford<br />
M F McCarthy<br />
Lt. Col. J F Willcocks<br />
2007 annual general<br />
<strong>The</strong> 2007 Annual General Meeting will be held at the<br />
<strong>Society</strong> of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly,<br />
London W1 at 6.30 pm on Monday 10th December.<br />
Please note your diary now.A formal notice is enclosed<br />
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member of the <strong>Society</strong> may nominate another member<br />
for election to the Council provided the nomination is<br />
made not less than six weeks before the AGM (which<br />
this year means before 29th October) and<br />
accompanied by written consent to nomination signed<br />
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National<br />
RRooyyaall HHeerraallddrryy SSoocciieettyy ooff CCaannaaddaa<br />
www.heraldry.ca<br />
Contact:: John Wilkes,<br />
RHSC,<br />
P.O. Box 8128<br />
Terminal T, Ottawa, ON K1G<br />
3H9, Canada<br />
secretary@heraldry.ca<br />
FFllaagg IInnssttiittuuttee<br />
www.flaginstitute.org<br />
Contact: Michael A Faul,<br />
44 Middleton Road, Acomb,<br />
York YO24 3AS Phone 01904<br />
33 9985 info@flaginstitute.org<br />
HHeerraallddrryy AAuussttrraalliiaa<br />
Regular meetings in Sydney and<br />
Canberra. Occasional meetings in<br />
Melbourne. Contact: St<strong>ep</strong>hen Michael<br />
Szabo, Hon. Secretary,<br />
PO Box 107 LAWSON<br />
NSW 2783 Australia<br />
heraldry_aust@optusnet.com.au<br />
HHeerraallddrryy SSoocciieettyy ooff SSccoottllaanndd<br />
www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk<br />
Meetings held at various<br />
locations. Contact: Charles<br />
Napier, 40 Morningside Drive,<br />
Edinburgh, EH10 5LZ.<br />
SSoocciieettyy ooff GGeenneeaallooggiissttss<br />
www.sog.org.uk<br />
14 Charterhouse Buildings,<br />
Goswell Road, London EC1M<br />
7BA Phone 0207 553 3290<br />
SSoocciieettyy ooff HHeerraallddiicc AArrttss<br />
www.heraldic-arts.com<br />
Contact: John Ferguson, Phone<br />
01737 242 945<br />
WWhhiittee LLiioonn SSoocciieettyy<br />
www.whitelionsociety.org.uk<br />
<strong>Society</strong> of Friends of the<br />
College of Arms<br />
Contact: Roland Symons, 5<br />
Weatherley Avenue, Odd Down,<br />
BATH BA2 2PF<br />
Local<br />
contacts<br />
CCiittyy ooff BBaatthh<br />
Meetings are held at Manvers<br />
Street Baptist Church Halls,<br />
Bath. 2.30 pm. Secretary:<br />
St<strong>ep</strong>hen Slater, Flat 8, Portway<br />
House, <strong>The</strong> Portway, Warminster, Wilts<br />
BA121 8QQ. Phone 01985 847228<br />
BBiirrmmiinngghhaamm aanndd MMiiddllaanndd<br />
Contact: Adrian de Redman,<br />
Phone 0121-608 5496. <strong>The</strong><br />
Group meets 4th Tuesday<br />
(exc<strong>ep</strong>t Aug & Dec) in the<br />
Kingsley-Norris Room, Birmingham &<br />
Midland Institute, 7.15 pm.<br />
CCaammbbrriiddggee UUnniivveerrssiittyy<br />
www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cuhags/<br />
Contact: Derek Palgrave,<br />
Crossfield House, Stanton,<br />
IP31 2DY<br />
DerekPalgrave@btinternet.com<br />
CChheesshhiirree <strong>The</strong> group meets at Townley<br />
Street Sunday School,<br />
Macclesfield at<br />
2.30 pm. Contact: Mr Harold<br />
Storey 2 Orchard Close, Cheadle Hulme<br />
SK8 7ET Phone 0161 4853786<br />
CChhiilltteerrnnss <strong>The</strong> group meets at various<br />
locations. Contact: John Allen,<br />
Phone 0118 947 8712<br />
GGrreeaatteerr MMaanncchheesstteerr<br />
Contact: Alan Fennely, 16 Paderborn<br />
Court, Bolton, BL1 4TX<br />
Phone 01204 532915<br />
IIssllee ooff WWiigghhtt<br />
Meetings are held at <strong>The</strong> Riverside<br />
Centre, Newport, IOW.<br />
Contact: Jean Peters, San Fernando, Burnt<br />
House Lane, Alverstone, Sandown, Isle of<br />
Wight PO36 0HB. Phone 01983 403<strong>06</strong>0<br />
peters.sanfernando@tesco.net<br />
LLaannccaasshhiirree<br />
http://members.aol.com/lancsheraldry<br />
<strong>The</strong> group meets on the first<br />
Monday of each month at St<br />
St<strong>ep</strong>hen’s Parish Centre,<br />
Broadgate, Preston at 7.30<br />
pm. Contact: Chris Ward, 87<br />
Palmer Road, Blackburn BB1 8BS Phone<br />
01254 53866<br />
chrisward1@btinternet.com<br />
MMeerrsseeyyssiiddee<br />
Philip Jackson, 38 Heygarth Road,<br />
Eastham, Cheshire, CH62 8AE.<br />
Phone 0151 327 3491<br />
MMiiddddlleesseexx<br />
www.middlesex-heraldry.org.uk<br />
Meetings held at the Guide Hut,<br />
Bury Street, Ruislip. Contact:<br />
Mrs Margaret Young, 34<br />
Farthings Close, Eastcote, Pinner,<br />
Middx, HA5 2QR, Phone 0208<br />
868 8750.<br />
NNoorrffoollkk<br />
www.norfolkheraldry.co.uk<br />
Meetings are held at United<br />
Reformed Church, Princes<br />
Street, Norwich, 7.45 pm on<br />
the first Wednesday of the<br />
month.<br />
Contact: Philippa Sims, 26c Shotesham<br />
Road, Poringland, Norfolk NR14 7LG.<br />
SSoommeerrsseett Contact: Alex Findlater: <strong>The</strong><br />
Grammar House, <strong>The</strong> Hill,<br />
Langport, Somerset TA10<br />
9UP; 01458 250868; email<br />
alex@findlater.org.uk.<br />
SSttaaffffoorrddsshhiirree<br />
Contact: Graham Phillips, 1<br />
Foxleigh Meadows, Handsacre<br />
Staffs WS15 4TG<br />
Phone 01543 492794<br />
graham@phillips81<strong>06</strong>.fsworld.co.uk<br />
SSuuffffoollkk<br />
Contact: Donald Hunt, 81a<br />
Southgate St, Bury St<br />
Edmunds, IP33 2BJ<br />
Phone 01284 763462<br />
YYoorrkksshhiirree<br />
www28.brinkster.com/yksheraldrysoc<br />
Meetings are held at<br />
Headingley Parish Centre, St<br />
Michael’s Road, Headingley,<br />
Leeds at 7.15pm. Contact:<br />
David Krause, 6 Corrance Road, Wyke,<br />
Bradford BD12 9LH Phone 01274<br />
679272.<br />
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