Grant of Arms
Grant of Arms

Members' Roll of Arms

Many of the members of the Heraldry Society are armigerous, ie. they have a coat of arms. This gives us an opportunity to introduce you to the wide range of designs and styles that are used for modern, and ancient, heraldry. The arms are organised by the member’s surname.

Current Members

Munday, Jonathan

Arms
Azure an opinicus rampant Or armed Gules
Crest
Out of a crest coronet issuant from clouds proper a sun in splendour Or eclipsed by a moon in her compliment Sable visaged Argent
Motto
Non Angelus Sed Anglus (No Angel But At least I'm English)
Authority

The College of Arms through John Brooke-Little, Norroy on 1st October 1990.

Notes

Artist: Carlos Navarro.

Murray, John

Arms
Per saltire Azure and Or semy of roundels counterchanged a swan wings displayed and inverted Argent gorged with a coronet Or and gorged below with a cord pendant therefrom a key ward to the dexter Azure
Crest
A gryphon segreant Or holding between the foreclaws a key ward downwards and to the dexter Azure and resting the dexter hindclaw on a cornucopia proper
Motto
Fortune Favours The Bold
Authority

The College of Arms, 9 July 1997.

Notes

For a badge: Within an annulet compony Azure and Or a cornucopia proper. Artist: Robert Parsons.

Naesmyth of Posso, Major (Retd) Richard William

Arms
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Gules, a dexter hand couped proper, holding a sword palewise Argent, between two broken hammers, Or (for Naesmyth), 2nd and 3rd, Azure, on a fess Argent between three mullets in chief and a sanglier passant in base of the second, a boar's head couped Gules (for Baird).
Crest
Above the shield is placed a chapeau Azure, furred Ermine, thereon a Helm befitting his degree, with a Mantling Gules doubled Argent and upon a Wreath of the Liveries a hand holding a hammer, as in the Arms and in an escrol over the same this Motto:
Motto
NON ARTE SED MARTE
Authority

The Lord Lyon, Edinburgh, 7th July 1958; being Confirmation of the Arms recorded in Volume 1 of the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland.

Nepomuceno dos Santos, Nelmar

Arms
Azure a pile between three escutcheons Or each charged with a lion rampant Purpure; in honour point an escutcheon Azure charged with Nelmar Nepomuceno's stylized monogram Or.
Crest
On a dexter profiled iron helm with ferrule, on a torse Or and Azure, an owl displayed Or.
Motto
Sapientia potentia est (Wisdom is power)
Authority

Assumed in Brazil.

Notes

Arms assumed and used since university graduation in 2009 as an arts teacher.

Newman-Norton, William Henry Hugo

Arms
Azure a chevron between two bells in chief and a crescent in base Or
Crest
In a crest coronet or a demi-lion double queued azure holding in the dexter paw a bell Or
Motto
'Agios, 'Agios, 'Agios (Holy, Holy, Holy)
Authority

The College of Arms, 1 August 1991.

Norman, Jeremy N F

Arms
Argent Ermined and on a Bend engrailed Vert between two Moorcocks close Sable legged wattled and combed Gules an Ostrich Feather Argent spined Or
Crest
Statant upon a Woodstock Or a Moorcock wings elevated and addorsed Sable legged wattled and combed Gules charged on the breast with a Morion Or holding in the dexter claw an Ostrich Feather erect Argent spined Or
Motto
Lente Sed Opportune (Slowly But Opportunely)
Authority

The College of Arms, 10 March 2009.

Nourse, Robert Scott

Arms
Gules, a fess between two chevrons Argent; a crescent Gules for difference
Crest
An arm embowed proper holding a snake Vert, entwined round the arm
Motto
Virtute non Astutia (By Virtue, not by Cunning)
Authority

On 27 May 1629 in the fifth regnal year of Charles I, a Patent of Arms and Crest was granted to John Nourse of Chilling Place in Oxfordshire, son of John Nourse of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, by William Segar, Garter Principal King of Arms.

Notes

A letter, dated 9 May 1984, from Elizabeth Dowman, Assistant to the York Herald of Arms, written to the member’s cousin Reba Nourse Coombs, verifies the grant of arms, as well as the right of the family to use it. The member’s branch of the family descends from the second son of John Nourse of Milton Keynes, Bucks; its arms are differenced with a crescent.
Artwork by Robert Scott Nourse.

O’Crowley, Michael

Arms
Azure enorled of fleurs-de-lis Argent a boar passant Or tusked, langued, unguled and crined of the second charged on the side with a cross crosslet Gules
Crest
A cubit arm vambraced the hand holding in bend sinister a spear the point upward all Proper
Motto
Lamh chruadhlaoich abu (Victory to the hand of the hard warrior); In deo spero
Authority

Chief Herald of Ireland, Volume Aa, Folio 19, November 24, 2009

Notes

Artist: Katy Lumsden, Chief Herald Painter to the Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland
Badge; In front of a cross crosslet Or a boar’s head erased Azure langued gules tusked Argent

O’Mórdha, Dr Peadar

Arms
Per chevron Or and Azure between two pairs of Couple closes seven Ermine spots counterchanged
Crest
An armoured dexter Hand holding aloft a sword proper ring-pommel Or transfixing three gory men’s heads also proper
Motto
Beart de réir mo Bhriathar
Authority

Chief Herald of Ireland

Padberg Evenboer, Klaas

Arms
Evenboer: Lozengy Or and Sable; impaling the arms of Padberg: Or, two bars Vair.
Crest
An eagle’s wings; dexter lozengy Or and Sable, and sinister Or two bars Vair.
Motto
Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re (Gently in manner, resolutely in action)
Authority

Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie (CBG), The Hague, Netherlands, 23th April 1986, Reg.Nr. 535.

Notes

Artist: Lothar Müller-Westphal

 

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