2011/12 Programme

Wednesday, 19 September 2012+
The Mark Elvins Lecture: The Ecclesiastical Heraldry of Surrey
Rev J Michael Phillips

A Trustee of the Surrey Historic Churches Preservation Trust, Michael Phillips serves the church designed by Surrey Herald of Arms Extraordinary, Charles Alban Buckler in 1875. This lecture will examine the rich and diverse heraldry of the churches of Surrey.

Chairman: Dr Malcolm Golin, MB BS

Wednesday, 24 October 2012+
The John Brooke-Little Lecture: Heraldry and the Crusades
Dr Paul A. Fox, FRCP

The exact role of the Crusades in the story of heraldry has been debated for centuries. Recent scholarship on the key crusading families has shed new light on the origins of heraldry, with religious beliefs playing an important role.

Chairman: Dr Richard C.F. Baker, FHG.

Wednesday, 21 November 2012+
The Bensons – A Victorian Family & their Heraldry
Dr Malcolm Golin, MB BD Hon FHS

The Bensons were a fascinating Victorian literary family, whose number included an Archbishop of Canterbury, a Papal Chamberlain, notable

Authors and an Egyptologist. This lecture examines the story of their heraldry, genealogy, and family history.

Chairman: Rev J Michael Phillips

Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Annual General Meeting
followed by Judging the Society’s Photographic Competition - an illustrated guide on what the Photographic Competition Judges are looking for.

David White, Esq, MA, Somerset Herald & Clive Alexander, Esq, BEd

Wednesday, 16 January 2013+
The Scriveners’ Company Lecture: The Heraldry of the Speakers of the House of Commons - revisited
Robert Harrison, Esq, BA, Hon FHS

This lecture will look at the history of the Speakership from medieval to modern times, the lives of a selection of some of the Speakers of the House of Commons and examine the heraldry that they bore.

Chairman: John J. Tunesi of Liongam, MSc, FSA Scot – Upper Warden

Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Symbols of National Identity on the Great Seals and Coinage of the United Kingdom since the Middle Ages
Dr Adrian Ailes, DPhil, FSA, FHS

For centuries heraldic symbols have been used to foster a sense of national identity, common history, and shared consciousness. This lecture examines how they were used on government seals and coinage to celebrate the different sentiments, cultures and identities of the United Kingdom as they were gradually and sometimes painfully forged into a single nation-state.

Chairman: Dr Clive Cheesman, MA, PhD, FSA, Richmond Herald .

Thursday, 21 February 2013 *+
Anniversary Lunch at the Royal Air Force Club, 128 Piccadilly, London.
Guest of Honour: Mark Dennis, Esq., Ormond Pursuivant.

12.30 for 1.00 p.m. Flier to be sent in December’s mailing.

Wednesday, 20 March 2013
The Münchener Kalendars 1885-1935
Clive Alexander, Esq, BEd

Presenting the unique collection of Munich Calendars, illustrating the heraldic artwork of Otto Hüpp, heraldic artist, font designer, painter, engraver and ceramicist. The collection has been donated to the Society by the family of the late David Christie-Murray. Clive Alexander and Bernard High have prepared a digital edition of the Calendars, which will be available for purchase on disc at the meeting.

Chairman: Dr Andrew Gray

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
From recusancy to respectability: the rise of the House of Silvertop
Charting the rise of a Catholic mining family in North-East England and its impact on the Catholic churches of County Durham and Northumberland.

Chairman: Jenny Baker, MPhIl