ep-06 Issue - The Heraldry Society

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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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