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

Wallace-Gross, Matthew

Arms
Azure, a dexter hand appume couped at the wrist Proper, on a bordure Or an orle Gules.
Crest
A demi-lion issuant guardant Or, armed and langued Gules, holding in the dexter forepaw a trefoil slipped Azure.
Motto
Persist and Persevere
Authority
Arms assumed in the United States of America, 2001. Later, registered under Certificate No. 3265, issued by the Bureau of Heraldry of South Africa, and signed by the State Herald, 21 February 2002.
Notes

Artist: Quentin Peacock

White, David Vines HonFHS

Arms
Argent, goutty de sang three cocks' heads erased sable combed and wattled gules a bordure engrailed sable.
Crest
A cock's head erased sable combed and wattled gules gorged by three annulets engrailed argent.
Notes

Garter Principal King of Arms from 2021.

Arms of Anthony Wittenbruch

Willenbruch, Anthony George

Arms
Sable, on each of three bars wavy argent a bar wavy Bleu Celeste all over an estoile or, on a chief gules a bend sinister couped fesswise in base and terminating in chief in a horse's head to the sinister surmounted by a bend couped fesswise in base and terminating in chief in a horse's head to the dexter argent.
Crest
A horse's head erased sable bridled and maned or charged on the neck with a pheon argent.
Motto
AB PALUDE AD ASTRA (From the fen to the stars)
Authority
Granted: 25th April 2007 (College of Arms); Agent: William Hunt (Windsor Herald)
Arms of Steven Wilson

Wilson, Steven William

Arms
Sable two Lochaber Axes in saltire blades upwards and outwards argent between in chief a Clydesdale Horseshoe reversed or issuant in base waves of the Sea proper thereon a Lorne Galley sails furled pennons flying or and in fess two Labrador's Heads erased respectant, the dexter fox red and the sinister yellow proper
Crest
Out of a Coronet sable a Polar Bear's Head argent and a Suffolk Punch's Head or addorsed the former holding in the mouth a Maple Leaf slipped Gules and the latter with flights Gules and Sable and holding in the mouth a Sprig of Oak vert
Motto
Integrity and Resilience
Authority
17th September 2020 (College of Arms), Agent: William G Hunt TD FCA
Notes

Artist: Robert J Parsons MBE

Wolstenholme, Andrew

Arms
Per fess Sable and Argent a Pale counterchanged on the Sable three pairs of Swords in saltire Argent hilts and pommels Or.
Crest
Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Sable A demi Wolf Argent crowned with an Ancient Crown supporting with the paws a Police Tipstaff palewise Sable.
Motto
Strength in Adversity
Authority
Granted: 22nd September 2019 (College of Arms Grants 182/166). Agent: York Herald, Peter O’Donoghue.

Woodcock, Sir Thomas KCVO OStJ DL FSA FHS

Arms
Or on a bend cotised gules three cross crosslets fitchy of the field
Crest
Out of a circlet or charged with three roses gules barbed and seeded proper a dexter arm embowed in armour also proper garnished gold, the hand grasping a scimitar likewise proper hilt and pommel gold.
Motto
Leges Juraque Serva (Observe the laws and ordinances)
Authority
College of Arms 20 April 1961
Notes

Garter Principal King of Arms 2010-2021

Woolf, Dr David Andrew

Arms
Murrey a Snow Wolf's Head erased proper on a Chief Argent a Boar's Head couped at the neck between two Fleurs de Lys Azure
Crest
Helm with a Wreath Argent and Azure Upon a Closed Book Murrey Garnished Or leaved proper a Snow Wolf secant erect proper holding in the sinister forepaw a Rose Argent barbed seeded slipped and leaved proper
Motto
Fides et Ratio
Authority
College of Arms Reference: Grants 179/81. Agent: Lancaster Herald in Ordinary (Robert Noel). Granted: 2nd October 2015.

Wright, Charles Ferguson Melville

Arms
Sable on a chevron Argent three spears' heads Gules in chief two unicorns' heads erased Argent armed and maned Or in base on a pile of the last issuant from the chevron a unicorn's head erased of the first
Crest
A unicorn's head argent erased and charged upon the neck with three spears' heads chevronwise Gules armed and crined Or
Motto
Ad Rem (To the Point)
Authority
Arms granted by Sir George Nayler, Garter, and Edmund Lodge, Norroy, to Samuel Wright of Gunthorpe, Notts and to the other descendants of his grandfather, Ichabod Wright of Nottingham.
Notes

The crest was granted in 1845 to Francis Wright of Osmaston, Derbys, and his brother Marcus, British Consul at Wiborg in the Grand Duchy of Finland. The original grant was, for a crest, "Out of a crescent Or a unicorn's head Argent erased Gules armed and maned of the first"

Zundel, Gareth

Arms
Gules in base a rocky mountain Argent issuant therefrom flames of fire proper in chief two ridged mullets each of six points Or
Crest
A demi-chamois proper gorged with a wreath Argent and Azure and resting the sinister foreleg on a firesteel proper
Motto
Ad Verum Scandere Montes (To Climb The Mountains To The Truth); motto associated with badge: Scandere Ad Astra (To Climb To The Stars)
Authority
Arms documented in the Staatsarchiv for the Canton of Zürich, including Conrad Meyer's Wappenbuch of 1674. Arms and crest granted by The College of Arms, London, 20 June 1983.
Notes

For a badge: A roundel Or enflamed on the outer edge proper thereon a roundel Gules charged throughout with a ridged mullet of six points Or.
Artist: Tom Meek

 

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