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6 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 E-mail the editor at heraldry.gazette@mac.com 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 despite being granted in England, with no mention of
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