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The Armorial
Bearings of the Chester Heralds

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Chester is said to have been instituted by
Edward III as herald of
the Prince of Wales. The title was in abeyance for a time under Henry
VIII, but since 1525 Chester has been one of the heralds in ordinary.
In 1911, when the future Edward VIII was created Prince of Wales,
Chester was one of his retinue.
Badge: A Garb Or [from the arms of the Earl of
Chester]
royally
crowned.
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John c.
1393 No arms
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William
Bruges 1398 - 1413
Arms: Nine pieces of Ermine and
Ermines
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James
Billett (temp Henry VI)
Arms: Argent, on a chief Gules three roses of the
first.
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William
Tyndale c. 1443
Arms: Argent, a fess Gules between three garbs
Sable.
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John (Tyndale?) c.
1447 - No Arms
William Whiting (temp
Henry VI?) - No
Arms
John Water/Walker c.
1455 -
1471 - No Arms
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Richard
Stanton (temp. Henry VI / Edw IV)
Arms: Sable, an orle of eight martlets
Argent.
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Roger Stamford 9temp.Edw IV)
Arms: Gules, a saltire Vair between four leopards' faces
Or.
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Roger
Bromley (temp. Ric III)
Arms: Ermine, three escutcheons
Sable.
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Thomas
Whiting 1473 - 1495
Arms: Per saltire Azure and Ermine, in the fess point a leopard's face
Or and in chief three
plates.
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William
Jenyns (temp. Hen VII?)
Arms: Azure, a chevron between three griffins' heads erased and a chief
Or.
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Randall
Jackson 1533 - 1545
Arms: Vert, a fess Or between three magpies
proper.
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William
Flower 1546 - 1562
Arms: Sable ermined Argent, a pierced cinquefoil
Ermine.
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Robert
Cooke 1562 - 1567
Arms: Gules, a cinquefoil Ermine in an orle of crosses crosslet fitchy
Argent.
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John
Hart 1567 - 1574
Arms: Gules, a bend between three fleur-de-lis Argent a crescent for
difference.
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Edmund
Knight 1574 - 1590
Arms: Vert, a bend of five lozenges
Or.
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James
Thomas 1590 - 1603
Per pale Azure and Gules, three lions rampant
Argent.
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William
Penson 1603
Arms: Gules, a chevron
engrailed Argent between three estoiles
Or.
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Thomas
Knight 1604 - 1618
Arms: Vert, a bend of five lozenges Or a crescent for
difference.
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Henry
Chitting 1618 - 1638
Arms: Quarterly Argent and Azure, on a bend Gules three quatrefoils
Argent.
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Edward
Walker 1638 - 1643
Arms: Quarterly -
1 & 4 Argent, on a cross Gules five leopards' faces Or.
2 & 3 Argent, a chevron anchored between three crescents
Sable.
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William
Dugdale 1644 - 1660
Arms: Argent, a cross moline Gules with a torteau in the dexter
canton.
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Francis
Ryley temp. Protectorate: No Arms.
Thomas Lee 1660 -
1667: No Arms.
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Thomas
May 1667 - 1689
Arms: Gules, a fess between eight billets Or a crescent for
difference.
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Charles
Mawson 1690 - 1720
Arms: Per fess Ermine and Ermines, a pale counterchanged and over all a
lion salient
Or.
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Edward
Stibbs 1720 - 1740
Arms: Per pale Gules and Azure, on a chevron embattled between three
estoiles Or three fusils
Sable.
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Francis
Huchenson 1740 - 1752
Arms: ................ a lion rampant ............... between eight
crosses
crosslet.
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John
Martin Leake 1752 - 1791
Arms: Quarterly -
1 & 4 Or, on a saltire engrailed Azure eight annulets Argent and in
a canton Gules a castle of three towers Argent.
2 & 3 Paly of six Or and Azure, on a chief Gules three merlins Or
with a crescent for
difference.
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George
Martin Leake 1791 - 1834
Arms: Quarterly -
1 & 4 Or, on a saltire engrailedAzure eight annulets Argent and in
a canton Gules a castle of three towers Argent.
2 & 3 Paly of six Or and Azure, on a chief Gules three merlins Or
with a mullet for
difference.
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Walter
Blount 1834 - 1859
Arms: Barry nebuly Or and Sable a crescent for
difference.
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Edward
Denby 1659 - 1864
Arms: Quarterly Argent and Azure, on a bend invected and cotised Sable
between two mullets Or ermined Sable three cinquefoils Or.
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Henry
Lane 1864 - 1913
Arms: Per fess Or and Azure, a chevron Gules between three mullets
counterchanged a canton of England a fleur-de-lis for
difference.
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Thomas
Joseph-Watkin 1913 - 1915
Arms: Argent, on a saltire indented Sable ermined Argent between four
spear-heads also Sable a spear-head Argent, all within a bordure
engrailed
Sable
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Arthur
Cochrane 1915 - 1926
Arms: Per pale Or and Gules, two crosses
trefly dimidiated
& issuing from the dexter and sinister flanks
counterchanged.
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Sir
John Heaton-Armstrong 1926 - 1955
Arms: Quarterly -
1 & 4 Gules, three dexter arms embowed in armour Argent the hands
closed proper
2 & 3 Vert, a lion rampant
Argent.
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James
Frere 1956 - 1960
Arms: Or, two leopards' faces between two flaunches
Gules
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Walter
Verco 1960 - 1971
Arms: Per Pale Argent and Azure, eleven mollets of six points
counterchanged
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Hubert
Chesshyre 1978 - 1995
Gules, two lions' gambs erased in chevron between three lures
Or
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Timothy
Duke 1995 to date
Arms: Per fess Sable and Or between two cotises their outer edges in
the form of the upper rim of a ducal coronet all counterchanged.
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