Lancaster Herald

LANCASTER HERALD

Originally Lancaster, whether as herald or as king, was retained by the earls and dukes of Lancaster. The title first appears in 1347 when Lancaster herald made a proclamation at the siege of Calais. Under Richard II Richard Bruges, first as herald, then as king, was retained by John of Gaunt, but on Henry IV's accession he was put on the Crown establishment and made king of the northern province. That arrangement was continued under Henry V and VI, but ceased by 1464 when Holme was made Norroy. Thereafter Lancaster reverted to the rank of herald. The title was still used under Edward IV. Whether or no Collyer and Ashwell were so named by that Sovereign Lancaster herald was sent to Burgundy in 1472 (C. L. Kingsford, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century, p. 381) and to Milan in 1476 (Cal. S.P., Milan, p. 226, no. 335). Since the time of Henry VII Lancaster has been one of the six heralds in ordinary.

Badge: The red rose of Lancaster royally crowned.

I. HERALD OF THE EARL OR DUKE OF LANCASTER

1. HERMAN

? Lancaster, c. 1354.

King of heralds 'morans cum duce Lancastrie' (Coll. of Arms MS. O.A. 1, 85, citing Issue Roll, Michaelmas, 28 Ed. III).

2. JOHN

Lancaster, c. 1358.

'Johan de Lancastre heraud' in Register of the Black Prince, 18 May 1358 (Calendar, pp. 251–2).

3. NICHOLAS

Lancaster, c. 1366.

'Nichol de Lancastre heraud' sent to Aquitaine by the Black Prince during chancellorship of Simon de Langham (February 1363–6) (Coll. of Arms MS. O.A. II, 541).

Lancaster also occurs Issue Rolls 1380 and 1381, but name not given.

4. ROGER DURROIT

? Lancaster, c. 1386 (?).

'Roger Durroit autrement dit Lancastre Roy de North d'Angleterre, Herault a Johan Duc de Lancastre' is said to have certified the pedigree of West of Sudbury in 1386, but that certificate is only known from Tudor and later copies of an alleged fifteenth-century confirmation.

(H. & H., p. 163.)

In this connection it should be noted that John Lake had the northern province in 1386. See Norroy (4).

5. RICHARD BRUGES (temp. Ric. II). See Norroy (6).

5 a. (JOHN)

Lancaster, c. 1405–10.

Occurs in Issue Rolls, Michaelmas, 6 Hen. IV and Warrant for Issue, 16 April, 11 Hen. IV. 'John' Lancaster herald named in Issue Rolls, 2 March 1405 and 16 April 1410, must be mistaken for Richard Bruges, see above (5).

In June 1415 Richard, Hereford herald and in January 1420 William Boys (no. 7 below) was marshal of the north.

6. JOHN ASHWELL (c. 1426). See Norroy (7).

7. WILLIAM BOYS (1436). See Norroy (8).

8. WILLIAM TYNDALE or TENDALE (1447). See Norroy (9).

II. HERALD

9. JAMES COLLYER (COLLIER)

Cadran, temp. Hen. VI.

Bluemantle, temp. Hen. VI.

Lancaster, temp. Ed. IV.

10. RICHARD ASHWELL (temp. Ed. IV). See Ireland (6).

11. NAME UNKNOWN (1486). £12 a year granted to an unnamed Lancaster herald by pat. 5 May 1486, and increased to £24 on 22 February 1489.

12. WILLIAM TYNDALE or TENDALE

Guisnes, temp. Hen. VII.

Rouge Dragon, temp. Hen. VII.

Lancaster, temp. Hen. VII.

Arms: Argent, a fess gules between 3 garbs sable; crescent on the fess. Unknown apart from Lant's Roll; probably imaginary.

13. THOMAS WALL (1509). See Norroy (17).

14. WILLIAM JENYNS alias GEDDING

Guisnes, app^d 1509 or 1510.

Lancaster, p.s. 7 May, pat. 22 May 1516.

As William 'Geynys pursevaunt', i.e. Guisnes, witnessed will of John Keer, 23 August 1510 (P.C.C. 21 Fetiplace); probably app^d 1509 on Wall's promotion; Lancaster 1516; new pat. 11 November, same year; d. c. October 1527. Owned College of Arms MS. L. 6 and also 'Jenyns' Ordinary' compiled c. 1380 and given to the College by H. F. Burke c. 1900. Ancestor of Jenyns of Ipsley (1619 Vis'n Warwickshire).

Arms granted 1517: Azure, a chevron or between 3 griffin heads erased argent, on a chief or a lion passant guardant between 2 roundels gules. Crest: A cat's head erased gules bezanty with a cross formy fitchy argent in its mouth.

15. WILLIAM FELLOW (1527). See Norroy (22).

16. THOMAS MILLER or MILNER

Calais, 10 Hen. VIII (sic).

Rouge Dragon, pat. 2, cr. 8 November 1530.

Lancaster, cr. 9, p.s. 11, pat. 15 July 1536, deprived c. July 1538.

Protégé of the Duchess of Buckingham; said to have been Calais, but if he was cannot have been app^d before November 1529; Rouge Dragon 1530 and later Lancaster and Marshal to Garter Barker. As Rouge Dragon, said in Heralds' Partition Book to be 'the first that ever had wages', whence, coupled with the fact that that is the Partition Book's first mention of Rouge Dragon, Martin Leake inferred that until then Rouge Dragon was only a pursuivant extraordinary.

October 1536 sent north with proclamation to Aske and other rebels (his own report in Archaeologia, xvi (1812), 331 sqq.); 1537 sent to King of Scots; later accused of misconduct at time of Pilgrimage of Grace and degraded; 22 July 1538, tried at York, found guilty of treason and executed c. 2 August. He pleaded that in conducting the case against him Hawley and Treheron were moved by malice, bearing a grudge for his actions as Garter's Marshal, but the judge reported that he could not prove this and that the prosecution was conducted honestly (see also L. & P. Hen. VIII, xi–xiii passim; Wriothesley's Chronicle, Camden Soc., N.S. xi, 84).

17. FULK AP HOWEL

Guisnes, cr. 1 November 1532.

Rouge Dragon, cr. 10 July 1536, signet 4 March, pat. 6 July 1538.

Lancaster, cr. 9 July 1538, p.s. 18 January, pat. 28 April 1539, imprisoned 29 May 1551.

Successively Guisnes, Rouge Dragon and Lancaster. 1537–41 sent on several missions to Scotland. In disgrace from about 1543; not named in Heralds' Charter 1549; made his peace soon after; 9 June 1550, commissioned by pat. to visit Wales and the Marches (not known to have done so); February 1551 obtained exemplification of his pat. as Lancaster, but soon in disgrace again. 26 May 1551, Edward VI noted in his Journal 'certain of the heralds, Lancaster and Portcullis, were committed to ward for counterfeiting Clarenceux's seal to get money by giving of arms'. The crime was declared treason and Lancaster was degraded and executed.

18. NICHOLAS TUBMAN

Hampnes, p.s. 21 September 1545.

Rouge Croix, p.s. 14, pat. and cr. 19 January 1550.

Lancaster, cr. 15, pat. 22 November 1553.

B. c. 1516, educ. Eton and King's College, Cambridge; probably s. of Nicholas Tubman, porter and barber Eton College, by his wife the College laundress; Hampnes by p.s. 21 September 1545, no pat. but called Hampnes in pat. of Rouge Croix 1550 although Hampnes not named in Heralds' Charter 4 June 1549; later Rouge Croix and Lancaster; 1553 sent to summon Duke of Northumberland and his band to disperse; 1554 granted Crown lease of Boveney and West Mill fisheries and house next Boveney Church; attended Duke of Norfolk against rebels in Kent; d. 8 January 1559, at Gravesend on way back from funeral of Sir John Baker of Sissinghurst; bur^d Gravesend.

B.M. Harl. 1393, fo. 41b, contains some pedigrees copied by W. Dethick but said to have been compiled by him.

19. JOHN COCKE

Portcullis, cr. 15 November 1553, pat. 3 January 1554, salary from Lady Day 1553.

Lancaster, cr. 13 January, pat. 7 March 1559.

Sometime servant to John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and his s. Robert, Earl of Leicester. Portcullis 1553; attended Earl of Pembroke on French expedition 1557; 1584 accompanied Earl of Leicester to Low Countries; d. Amsterdam, 17 March 1586.

In 1572 at the funeral of Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, he wore a tabard of the earl's arms (Dallaway, Inquiries, p. 252).

Owned several manuscripts now in the College including Coll. of Arms MS. I, 2 (published 1904 as Banners, Standards and Badges).

Arms: Argent, a chevron engrailed between 3 bird's (?cock's) heads erased sable. Crest: A bear's head argent crowned or (derived from the Dudley badge).

20. NICHOLAS PADDY

Rouge Dragon, pat. 30 September, cr. 31 October 1574.

Lancaster, signet 3, pat. 7 June 1588.

Younger brother of Sir William Paddy, physician to James I and Charles I (see D.N.B.); fifteen years servant to Gilbert Dethick; Rouge Dragon 1574 and Lancaster 1588; 1597 though senior herald and recommended by Dethick for promotion to Norroy was passed over and Segar app^d; d. 1602, will dat. 13 March, pr. 19 April, Commissary Court, London.

Certified but did not concoct Mauleverer pedigree, which Round dubbed as astounding example of sheer, fantastic fiction (Family Origins, p. 170; Peerage and Family History, p. 308; cf. Misc. Gen. & Her., ii, 73; H. & G., ii, 304).

Arms granted 1590: Sable, a scocheon ermine between 4 lions rampant in cross argent. Crest: On a chapeau gules turned up ermine a lion passant argent.

21. FRANCIS THYNNE

Blanch Lyon, cr. 22 April 1602.

Lancaster, cr. 22 April, pat. 24 October 1602.

B. Kent (? Erith) c. 1542, s. of William Thynne, of Erith, Kent, Master of the Household to Henry VIII and Editor of Chaucer 1542; first cousin of Sir John Thynne of Longleat; educ. Tonbridge School; admitted Lincoln's Inn 1561; 1602 Blanch Lyon and, immediately after, Lancaster; d. c. November 1608.

One of the original Society of Antiquaries; author of many heraldic, genealogical, historical and antiquarian MSS. now in College, British Museum, Bodleian, etc. Fuller called him 'a gentleman painful & well deserving not only of his own office but all the English nation' (Worthies (1811), 1, 508). W. Dethick recommended him for eventual promotion to Norroy. Said to have been of great help to Camden in his heraldic work (Dallaway, Inquiries, pp. 224–5).

(See also D.N.B.; etc.)

On the family's supposed descent from Boteville see J. H. Round in Genealogist, N.S. xi, 193–5, etc.

Arms: Barry of 10 or & sable.

22. NICHOLAS CHARLES

Blanch Lyon, c. 1603.

Lancaster, pat. 19 November 1608, cr. 21 April 1609.

S. of George Charles, of London, butcher; said to have been Blanch Lyon but that lacks confirmation and Ralph Brooke, York, said he was made Lancaster without having served as pursuivant. Married dau. of Garter Segar, and d. 19 November 1613.

One of the most industrious and skilful heralds of his day; great copier of medieval rolls (C.E.M.R.A., p. 140); on his death Camden paid no less than £90 for his manuscripts. 1611 accompanied Norroy on Vis'n of Derbyshire and 1613 visited Huntingdonshire for Camden.

(D.N.B.; Preface to Camden Soc. edit. of the Vis'n of Hunts; etc.)

Arms: Ermine, on a chief gules 5 lozenges in fess or.

23. WILLIAM PENSON

Chester, pat. 8 July 1603.

Lancaster, cr. 10 December 1613, E.M. wt. 14 February 1614, pat. 24 September 1617.

S. of Wm. Penson, Chancellor of Hereford (bur^d Cradley, co. Hereford), by Alice Whittingham (MS. Harl. 1408, 83); never pursuivant; on death of James Thomas, the senior pursuivant Thomas Knight was nom. Chester and Penson was to be Rouge Croix, but Knight was prevented by the plague from obtaining a patent and Penson surreptitiously got a pat. as Chester (instead of Rouge Croix); Knight protested and after inquiry the Commissioners of E.M. suspended Penson and gave the place to Knight; Penson resisted and the dispute was only settled on the death of Nicholas Charles when Penson was made Lancaster and Knight confirmed as Chester; d. 20 April 1637; bur^d in St Benet's, Paul's Wharf.

A trouble-maker and unpopular; imprisoned several times for debt; kept wife and family in the College in spite of E.M's prohibition, and took possession of the public kitchen for his own use.

B.M. MS. Harl. 1408 contains miscellaneous heraldic notes in his handwriting; Harl. 1107 contains his notes on dispute with Knight. Harl. 1092 also connected with him.

Arms: Gules, a chevron engrailed argent between 3 estoiles or (Harl. 1408, 83; 1613 version of Lant's Roll).

(Noble gives him: Gyronny of 8 pieces sable & gules, on a fess between 3 eagles argent 3 cinquefoils azure seeded or; this was granted by Wriothesley & Benolt to Richard Pynson of Middlesex.)

24. THOMAS THOMPSON

Rouge Dragon, wt. for tabard 23, pat. 29 June, cr. 8 July 1624.

Lancaster, pat. 10 May 1637.

Of Streatham, Surrey; second but eldest surviving s. of Samuel Thompson, Windsor; Rouge Dragon 1624; thence Lancaster; 1634 deputy for R. St George and Borough Vis'ns of Lincolnshire and Derbyshire; with Owen, York, compiled a pedigree of Vaughan, Earl of Carbery (H.C.E.C., no. 162, pl. xlvi); d. on or about 12 September 1641.

Arms: As his father.

25. WILLIAM RYLEY (1641). See Clarenceux (18 D).

25 A. GEORGE BARKHAM

Lancaster, intruded c. 1658, pat. 25 February 1659, deprived 1660.

Lancaster at Oliver Cromwell's lying in state, etc. (Prestwich, Respublica, p. 189), but probably had post earlier, perhaps on Ryley's removal to Norroy 1646. Ejected at Restoration when Ryley reverted to Lancaster. Married Ryley's dau. Dorothy.

Probably the George, b. c. 1617, s. of John Barkham, rector of Bocking, Essex, and alleged author of Guillim's Display of Heraldry (1623 Vis'n of Dorset).

Arms: Argent, 3 pales gules.

26. ROBERT CHALONER

Bluemantle, signet July, sworn 10 August 1660.

Lancaster, E.M. wt. 24 July, R. wt. 14 November 1667.

B. c. 1613, fourth s. of Robert Chaloner of Lloran, co. Denbigh, and greatnephew of Thomas Chaloner of Chester, whilom deputy of Norroy. Served in Royalist forces; app^d Bluemantle at Restoration and Lancaster 1667. Lived mostly at Roundway, Wiltshire, but d. London 14 November 1675; bur^d St Benet's, Paul's Wharf.

1670 visited Flintshire as deputy for Clarenceux. (Information from W. J. Hemp, F.S.A.; etc.)

Arms: Quarterly, (1 & 4) argent, on a chevron sable 3 kneeling angels or; (2 & 3) sable, a chevron between 3 cherubs or. (Chaloner ancient & modern.) Crest: A demi-seawolf or.

27. FRANCIS SANDFORD

Rouge Dragon, docquet 25 May, pat. 6, cr. 16 June 1661.

Lancaster, cr. 16 November 1675, res^d 1689.

The family, staunchly Royalist, suffered severely in the Civil War.

B. 1630 at Carnow Castle, co. Wicklow, third s. of Francis Sandford of Sandford, co. Salop, by Elizabeth dau. of Chalcott Chambre of Williamscot, Oxfordshire, and of Carnow Castle; 1641 owing to Irish rebellion came to Sandford; said to be B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin (W. B. S. Taylor, History Univ. Dublin, p. 483, but not in J. H. Todd's Catalogue of Graduates in...Dublin); 1661 Rouge Dragon and 1675 Lancaster; 1666 commissioned with Wenceslaus Hollar to make survey of City of London after the Great Fire; actively concerned as architect and supervisor in rebuilding College and 1672 charged by chapter to reside there for greater security; 1689 rather than proclaim King William resigned to Gregory King for £220; settled in Great Russell St, Bloomsbury; d. 17 January 1694, in the Fleet (? Newgate) for debt; bur^d in St Bride's upper churchyard.

Probably accompanied Dugdale on 1662 Vis'n of Shropshire, of which office copy contains some church notes by him and some of his earlier (1653, etc.) sketches; 1664 deputed by Bysshe to visit churches, etc., in London and Westminster; 1670 deputed by Dugdale to visit Flintshire.

Published A Genealogical History of the Kings of Portugal (1662); The Order ...at the Interment of the...Duke of Albemarle (1670) (engraved); A Genealogical History of the Kings of England... (1677), a most valuable work (2nd edit. enlarged by S. Stebbing, 1707); The History of the Coronation of .. James II (1687). In two latter works greatly assisted by G. King.

His pedigrees of Shropshire Families in B.M. Add. MS. 28616.

Probably represented as right-hand figure in Sir Peter Lely's chalk drawing of two heralds in Albertina Gallery, Vienna (H.C.E.C., no. 69, pl. xvii).

Arms: Quarterly per fess indented ermine & azure.

28. GREGORY KING

Rouge Dragon, E.M. wt. 25 April, cr. 24 May 1677.

Lancaster, docquet June, pat. 7 July 1689, R. wt. 3, cr. 17 January 1690.

B. Lichfield 15 December 1648, s. of Gregory King of that place. At age 14 clerk to Dugdale, then Norroy, accompanied him on Vis'ns from 1663; 1667 servant to Lord Hatton; 1672 worked as engraver, cartographer, etc., in London; 1677 Rouge Dragon and later Lancaster; 1681–3 visited eight counties for Clarenceux; 1687 negotiated purchase for the College of Earl of Anglesey's MSS. including Philipot collections (advanced £25, half the cost); deputy Garter on several occasions; Secretary to Comptroller of Army Account; uncle to Laurence Cromp; d. 29 August 1712; bur^d in St Benet's, Paul's Wharf (M.I.).

Distinguished as herald and genealogist, draughtsman and cartographer, statistician and town-planner. Laid out King (now Soho) Square; it and Greek St named after him. His autobiography published in Dallaway's Inquiries. He richly deserved and was unfortunate not to obtain promotion to Clarenceux or Garter.

His second wife was Frances, sister of the first Earl of Coventry's second wife Elizabeth Grimes or Graham: King maintained that the sisters were descended from the Grahams of Norton Conyers, whose arms were displayed at the earl's funeral in 1699 and on his monument. But the second earl charged King in the Court of Chivalry with having 'devised fictitious ancestors' for his stepmother and said that she was really one of the first earl's household servants, sister of Richard Grimes, a common waterman. See H. & G., vii, 97, etc. The result has not been found. The Partition Book notes that he was under suspension in 1703, 1707 and 1710 but no reason is stated.

(See D.N.B. for many further details, names of his publications and list of some of his unpublished MSS.)

Arms granted 1679: Gules, a lion passant guardant argent between 3 crowns or. Crest: From a torse argent & gules a dragon's head gules winged argent & crowned or.

29. ROWLAND FRYTH

Mowbray, E.M. wt. 4, R. wt. 7, cr. 17 May 1698.

Lancaster, pat. 14, cr. 19 November 1712.

Born c. 1651, s. of Edward Fryth of Thornes, parish of Shenstone, Staffordshire; d. 7 December 1712; bur^d at Shenstone. His wife, Elizabeth Wightwick, was aunt of Thomas Wightwick, York.

(Greg. King's Staffs. Pedigrees, Harl. Soc. 63, 98; etc.)

Arms granted 1677: Sable, on an embattled chevron or between 3 poleaxes argent 3 roundels sable. Crest: A demi-griffin sable holding in both claws a poleaxe erect argent.

30. JOHN HESKETT or HESKETH

Portcullis, E.M. wt. 18 September, pat. 25 November, R. wt. 5, cr. 11 December 1700.

Lancaster, pat. 4, R. wt. 9, cr. 18 June 1713, res^d 18 May 1727.

An attorney in Exeter but in 1727 of Dover (Kent), Lancashire and co. Cork. Portcullis 1700 and Lancaster; res^d 18 May 1727, in favour of Stephen Martin Leake afterwards Garter. His portrait in the College.

Arms: (1) As used by his grandfather: (Argent), on a bend (sable) 3 garbs (or). Crest: A garb (or).

(2) Granted 21 July 1727, after his resignation: Ermine, on a bend sable 3 garbs or with a rose gules in sinister chief. Crest: A garb or charged with a rose gules, the stalk & leaves vert entwined about the garb.

The red roses recall his place of Lancaster.

31. STEPHEN MARTIN LEAKE (1727). See Garter (18).

32. CHARLES GREENE

Arundel, cr. 9 October 1727.

Lancaster, app^d 8, cr. 18 December 1729 (? cr. 28 January 1730).

Of Ecclesfield Hall, near Sheffield, Yorkshire; younger s. of William Greene by Alice Smithson, a relative of the Duke of Northumberland. B. January 1702; d. 14 January 1743; bur^d in Ecclesfield Church (M.I.). Worked for some time for Law, the projector of the Mississippi scheme in France. After Laws' downfall was made Arundel and then Lancaster. According to S. Martin Leake he was a Jacobite, 'a generous, good-natured man & a good officer...but all was drownded in liquor. He could drink any thing, at any time, any where and with any body.'

(1665 Vis'n of Yorkshire, etc.)

Arms granted 1612: Azure, 3 demi-lions erased or ermined sable. Crest: From a mural crown gules a demi-lion or ermined sable.

33. THOMAS BROWNE (1744). See Garter (20).

34. ISAAC HEARD (1761). See Garter (22).

35. THOMAS LOCK (1774). See Clarenceux (28).

36. CHARLES TOWNLEY

Bluemantle, pat. 31 December, salary from 11 November 1774.

Lancaster, pat. 24 December, salary from 8 November 1781, res^d 11 July 1793.

Of Long Whatton, Leicestershire; b. Great Tower St, London, 31 October 1749, eldest surviving s. of Sir Charles Townley, Garter; Bluemantle 1774; Lancaster 1781; res^d 11 July 1793 for £600 from Nayler, having for some years before lived entirely at Long Whatton; d. unmarried 25 November 1800.

Arms: As Sir Charles Townley, Garter.

37. EDMUND LODGE (1793). See Clarenceux (33).

38. GEORGE FREDERICK BELTZ, K.H., F.S.A.

Brunswick, 14 August 1814.

Portcullis, pat. 22 May, salary from 11 April 1817.

Lancaster, E.M. wt. May, pat. 4 June, salary from 8 May 1822.

B. 1774, s. of George Nicholas Beltz, sometime coal-merchant of St George's, Bloomsbury; F.S.A. 1807; Companion 1826 and Knight 1836 of the Guelphic Order. His mother, Elizabeth Guttridge, half-sister to the mother of G. W. Collen, Portcullis.

Clerk to Garter Heard 1791–1816; Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod 13 July, and Brunswick herald 14 August 1814; afterwards Portcullis and Lancaster; d. Basle, Switzerland, 23 October 1841.

A first-class scholar; author of Memorials of the Order of the Garter (1841), A Review of the Chandos Peerage Case (1834), and many papers in Archaeologia, The Retrospective Review, etc. Helped Collen, his cousin and clerk, in editing Debrett's Peerage.

(Gent. Mag., N.S. xvii, 107; D.N.B.; etc.)

Arms granted 1804: Quarterly, (1 & 4) gules, on a chief per pale erminois & ermine a double eagle sable (Beltz); (2 & 3) or, on a bend wavy azure plain cotised gules 3 doves argent (Guttridge). Crest: On a torse argent & gules a mount vert & thereon in front of a fern-plant an ermine proper. Motto: Amara Lento Temperet Risu.

39. ALBERT WILLIAM WOODS (1841). See Garter (27).

40. GEORGE EDWARD ADAMS, afterwards COKAYNE (1869). See Clarenceux (39).

41. EDWARD BELLASIS

Bluemantle, E.M. wt. 29 November, Gazette 13, pat. 23 December 1873.

Lancaster, pat. 13 July, salary from 22 March 1882.

B. 1852, second s. of Serjeant Edward Bellasis; previously Bluemantle; d. 17 March 1922; his last years spent in a mental home.

Published Laws of Arms chiefly in connection with changes of name (1879), Westmorland Church notes (1888–9), articles on genealogical, ecclesiological and musical subjects.

(Genealogist, N.S. xxxviii, 255; Crisp, Visitation of England, 11, 57–8; Who's Who; etc.)

Arms: Quarterly with a crescent over all; (1 & 4) argent, a chevron between 3 fleurs de lis azure, in centre chief a tent proper lined gules (Bellasis); (2 & 3) argent, a fess embattled & counterembattled plain cotised between 3 annulets gules (Viall). Crest: On a wreath of the colours a mount vert & thereon a lion couchant guardant azure in front of a tent as in the arms. Motto: Bel Est Bel Assez; Loris Non Ureris.

(A. C. Fox-Davies, Armorial Families (1902), etc.)

42. ARCHIBALD GEORGE BLOMEFIELD RUSSELL (1922). See Clarenceux (45).

43. JOHN RIDDELL BROMHEAD WALKER, M.V.O., M.C.

Rouge Croix, pat. 15, Gazette 24 October 1947.

Lancaster, pat. 14 April, salary from 5 April 1954.

B. 21 June 1913, third s. of Colonel Percy Gerald Walker, I.A.; educ. Dover and R.M.C., Sandhurst; Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) 14th Sikhs; M.C. 1944; Rouge Croix 1947; Lancaster 1954; M.V.O. 1953; Deputy Inspector of Regimental Colours 20 May 1957; Registrar 1960.

Arms (granted 1815): Or ermined sable, on a pile embattled azure a mural crown between 2 caltraps in pale or. Crest: On a mural crown encircled by a wreath of laurel an ostrich resting the dexter claw on a grenade fired, all proper. Motto: Nil Desperandum.