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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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