Spink & Son are offering for sale the 1923 framed Grant of Arms to Richard Henry Powis (b.1876 d.1943) of Sudbury in the county of Middlesex formerly a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. The sale is due 12th July 2018 with a guide price of £300-£500.
Richard married Alice Mercy Collins in 1908 and had a daughter, Mercy Alice, in 1912. Mercy married Edward Benson in 1933. Alice died in 1930 and Richard then married Dorothy Nellie Gladys Newton in 1934.
Arms: Per chevron Gules and Or in chief three cross crosslets fitchy of the second and in base a lion rampant of the first.
Crest: In front of a lion’s gam erased proper grasping a crosslet fitchy bendwise Or two roses Gules barbed and seeded also proper.
Motto: Parta Tueri
Badge: A lion’s gam erased proper enfiled by a mascle Or.
Dated: 18th December 1923
Garter: Sir Henry Farnham Burke KCVO CB
Clarenceaux: William Alexander Lindsay KC