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

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

Paganuzzi, Gian Carlo

Arms
Ermine a Chevron Gules between three Crosses bottony Azure each surmounted by a Leopard's Face Or
Crest
Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Gules Issuing from the Capital of a fluted Ionic Column Or a demi Dragon Gules holding in the dexter claws a Scroll Argent. Mantling: Gules lined Argent.
Motto
Veritas Atque Bonitas Vincent (Truth And Goodness Will Conquer)
Authority
The College of Arms, 19th July 2013. The agent was Mr T Duke (Chester Herald).
Notes

For a badge: A Cross bottony Azure surmounted by a Leopard's Face Or.
The artist who painted the letters patent was Mr Robert John Parsons MBE.
The text was scrivened by the Clerk of the Records, Mr Keith Alexander Evans MVO.

Palgrave, Derek

Arms
Azure a cross embattled conjoined with a bordure also embattled Argent in the Azure four lions rampant Argent
Crest
A bittern booming Azure beaked, legged and having looped about its neck a polyanion chain of phosphate tetrahedra reflexed over the back Or
Motto
Contendere Semper
Authority
The College of Arms, 15 March 1982.

Phillips, David

Arms
Gyronny wavy of sixteen Argent and Sable an estoil of eight points Gules
Crest
A horse's head Sable the muzzle and tips of the ears Argent in the mouth a billet tenné charged with a fess vair
Motto
All Truths Wait In All Things
Authority
The College of Arms 3 November 1993.

Plowman, Stephen

Arms
Argent three anchors Sable each entwined by a serpent Gules on a chief enarched nebuly Azure three martlets rising Or
Crest
Within a circlet of crosses each cross having seven triangular arms each arm terminating in two points Argent a demi-savage wreathed about the waist and head with laurel leaves holding in his dexter hand a sword erect proper quillons hilt and pommel Or and in his sinister hand a shepherd's crook proper
Motto
Custodite et Ducite (Guard and Guide)
Authority
The College of Arms, 24 May 1993.

Porcelli, Luca

Arms
Or on a fess gules three porcupines Proper.
Motto
Hic manebimus optime (Here we will remain most excellently) (Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita, Bk.5, 55)
Authority
Certificación de armas a favor de Luca Porcelli, Cronista de Armas de Castilla y León, no.61, 2021.
Notes

The ancestry and arms have been traced back nearly three centuries.

Porter, Kenneth

Arms
Per pall Ermine Or and Gules in chief a computer ferrite core memory store matrix also Gules and in base two bells counterchanged
Crest
A demi-maiden in profile proper vested Ermine crined Or holding in the dexter hand bendwise across the right shoulder a staff terminating in a fleur-de-lis Gules pendent from the upper end a triangular pennon Or and resting the sinister hand on a bell Gules
Motto
Animus Supremus Est
Authority
The College of Arms, 1 January 1986.
Notes

Artist: Romilly Squire.

 

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