Auctioneers Golding Young & Mawer are offering for sale the 1965 Grant of Arms and the 1978 Grant of a Badge to Drusilla Marion Elizabeth Armitage (31st Mar 1929 – 16th Nov 2019) of Westfield Road in the Parish of St Anne in the City of Leicester. The auction is on the 10th June at Bourne, Lincolnshire.
Arms: Gules on a chevron Or between three cross crosslets Argent as many horseshoes Sable.
Dated: 1st June 1965
Garter: Sir Anthony Richard Wagner
Clarenceux: Sir John Dunamace Heaton-Armstrong
Badge: A cross crosslet Or interlaced with a horseshoe Sable.
Dated: 16th June 1978
Garter: Sir Anthony Richard Wagner
Clarenceux: John Riddell Bromhead Walker
Drusilla Armitage was a member of the Heraldry Society and the White Lion Society. The notes attached to her entry at the White Lion Society have the following rationale for her Arms:
“The design is a mixture of Miss Armitage’s father’s arms (Gules, a lion’s head erased between three cross crosslets argent) and those of her mother, who came from the old Leicestershire family of Pochin (Or, a chevron gules between three horseshoes sable).”
