A couple of weekends ago I was in Salisbury with the family and I re-visited the Parish Church of St Thomas and St Edmund. My first visit was a bit of a failure because my digital camera died on me. However, this time armed with my new camera and in the company of my father-in-law I had more success.
As a interim step I have uploaded some of the pictures to photobucket. The link below will take you to the gallery via the main website.
My colleague at the Heraldry Society of Scotland, Paul Campbell, has compiled and emblazoned an Armorial of the Arms for Campbell. I am delighted to be able to display it at my main site. It can be viewed at:
The bookplate of the 7th Lord Farnham is currently on sale at eBay by prexiepost.
Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham married Anna Stapleton, daughter of Thomas Stapleton, 16th Baron le Despencer, on 3 December 1828. The couple had no children. Both Farnham and his wife were killed in the Abergele train disaster of 1868.
Arms:
Argent a saltire Sable a chief paly of six of the first and second (for Maxwell of Calderwood)
Impaling
Quarterly 1st Argent a lion rampant Sable (for Stapleton) 2nd Azure three dexter hand gauntlets with their backs forward Or (for Fane) 3rd Gules on a Saltire Argent a rose of the filed barbed and seeded proper (for Neville) 4th Quarterly Argent and Gules in the 2nd and 3rd quarters a fret Or over all a bend Sable (for Spencer)
Crest: A buck’s head erased proper [The bookplate displays the coronet of a Baron]
Motto: Je Suis Pret
Supporters: Two bucks proper
My Maxwell armorial can be viewed at www.heraldry-online.org.uk/maxwell.html.
On Saturday 24th September I was up in the City to attend a Regimental lunch at HMS President (RNR) in St Katherine’s Dock. I arrived early enough to stroll round my old haunts in the City from when I worked in the Lloyd’s Insurance market. A few random heraldic photographs:
The Union Discount Company of London
Doorway of St Andrew's Undershaft
Arms of the Clothworkers' Company
Leadenhall Market, Arms of the City of London
My main effort was in the Church of All Hallows by the Tower. That will be a major project in its own right – time permitting.
As a keen student of genealogy I have been watching the BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? Last night it was the turn of the actress Emilia Fox. The latter part of the programme covered her great great grandfather Samson Fox. He was the guiding force behind Harrogate’s Royal Hall. The show briefly displayed a view of his Arms in the ceiling of the Hall:
Fox-Davies’ Armorial Families gives the blazon as:
Arms: Argent a representation of a corrugated boiler-flue fesseways proper between two foxes courant Gules each holding in their mouth a trefoil slipped Vert.
Crest: A representation of a corrugated boiler-flue as in the Arms and thereupon a fox Gules resting the dexter pay upon a trefoil slipped Vert.
Motto: Forti Nihil Difficile. (To the brave, nothing is difficult.)
The Harleian Society’s Grantees of Arms has the following:
I have volumes 1 & 2 of J Horace Round’s Peerage & Pedigree for sale on eBay. Feel free to have a look:
Peerage and Pedigree – Studies in Peerage Law and Family History
Today a bookplate of the 6th Duke of Portland was sold on eBay by lesIndavid.
The Arms are listed in my Bentinck armorial.
Arms: 1st & 4th Azure a cross moline Argent (for Bentinck) 2nd & 3rd Sable three stags’ heads cabossed Argent attired Or (for Cavendish).
Crests: 1st Out of a ducal coronet gold two arms counter embowed vested Gules on the hands gloves Or each holding an ostrich feather Argent (for Bentinck) 2nd A snake nowed proper (for Cavendish)
Supporters: Two lions double queued the dexter Or the sinister Sable.
Motto: Craignez Honte (Dread shame)
James Dempster, over at the HSS, spotted this hatchment on sale at ebay by timw3007.
The Arms seem to be those of Vessey:
Arms: Ermine on a cross Sable five martlets Or
Crest: An arm embowed and couped at the shoulder erect from the elbow habited Gules cuffed ermine holding in the hand proper four leaves Vert.
The hatchment was made by Winsor & Newton of London and is just 14 inches by 14 inches which is somewhat smaller that the usual. I could not find it listed in the Hatchments of Britain. These last two factors might indicate it was a “sample”.
It appears that the TV astrologer, Russell Grant, is a Grantee of Arms from the College of Arms, London. Russell has his own web page on the topic here.
I plan to add his Arms to my Grant Armorial in due course. From his website I have had a go at emblazoning his Arms as below:
To be absolutely sure I will need to have the actual blazon from the Letters Patent. I’ve dropped Russell’s “team” a line and await a reply. Failing that, I will have to try other avenues.
My initial stab at the blazon is:
Azure two seaxes in saltire pommelled and hilted Or between four estoiles two in fess of the last and two in pale Argent.
I am sure some of my fellow heraldry enthusiasts can correct me.
A new webpage has been added for St Mary’s Church, Buriton, Hampshire.
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