Cheshire Heraldry Web Journal

All this recent talk about the City of Chester’s Sheriff reminds me that since the reorganisation of local government in Cheshire, ceremonial  items and functions which had previously been held by, and the responsibility of, the former municipal borough of Chester are presently held by The City of Chester Charter Trustees. It is they who, until a […]

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Following on from the post I made on the 24th April entitled “A Roadshow a Sheriff and a coconut” there has been a response from the incumbent Sheriff which doesn’t actually throw any light on the conundrum. Her Worship appears to have attempted to answer the question but simply states that the chains of office […]

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In July 1957 The Heraldry Society launched its new coat of arms upon the world in its journal, The Coat of Arms.  

In the same edition its Hon. Editor in Chief, J.P. Brooke-Little, gave his view on “What does such and such a coat of arms mean?”. Whilst the piece on the arms of The Heraldry Society clearly sets out an […]

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There is presently a discussion taking place between the moderators of wikipedia and the author of the page for Wesley College, Melbourne, which is of interest to me from both a genealogical and a heraldic view point; sadly it is yet another example of the blind leading the blind.
My interest in this entry lies in […]

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Burke’s General Armory informs us, in the entry for Quin (Windham-Quin, Earl of Dunraven and Mountearl), that the Earl of Dunraven wishing to perpetuate the more ancient arms of his ancestors, the O’Qins of Munster, obtained from the present Ulster King of Arms the right to bear them [the arms of O’Quin] instead of those […]

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Heraldry addicts like me tend to spend far too much time trawling the world wide web in search of a fix ( in my defence, I am aware that there are far worse things to trawl for so it could be worse!) and I’m always pleased to see armorial bearings which, to my eyes at […]

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Viewers of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow (Sunday 18th April 2010 - all images courtesy of the BBC) will have seen the Sheriff of Chester Cllr Andrew Storrar proudly wearing his official robes and sporting what has undoubtedly become accepted as  the Sheriff’s Chain of Office. He described the armorial jewel as those of the Office […]

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Savage of Clifton
Arms: Quarterly of seventeen -
1 Argent, six lioncels rampant 3,2, and 1, Sable.
2 Gules, a chevron between three martlets Argent [Walkinton]
3 Argent, a pale fusilly Sable [Danyers]
4 Argent, a fesse dancettee Gules [Chedle]
5 Argent, a cross formee, the ends fleury Sable [Swinnerton]
6 Gules, a cross Ermine [Beke]
7 Or, on a fesse Azure, three […]

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Now here’s a novel approach - The [Kenyan] College of Arms, the body mandated under the College of Arms Act (Cap 98), Laws of Kenya, to approve and award Grant of Arms seeks to constitute a Panel of Artists for purposes of designing Coat of Arms and engrossing Grants of Arms for applicants thereof.
The tender […]

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I’m always pleased to see armorial inn signs but too often today these signs tend to have no relationship with their armorial names. Two examples close to my own home have now, sadly, lost all connection with their armorial names; The Granville Arms now sports an inn sign upon which is painted a view of […]

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