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

Cholmeley, Sir Fred Bt.

Arms
Quarterly: 1st and 4th Gules, two esquire’s helmets in chief Proper, a mullet Or for difference, and a garb in base Or, for Cholmeley; 2nd Lozengy Argent and Azure, a bend Gules, fretty Or, for Cheney 3rd Argent, three capons Sable, for Capenhurst
Crest
A Garb Or, charged with a mullet Gules for difference
Motto
Cassis tutissima virtus [Virtue is the safest helm]
Authority

College of Arms

Notes

Artist: Sir Fred Cholmeley.
This is the Coat of Arms as found in the College of Arms. The family has tended to use it without the quarterings and often using for the crest, a demi-griffin segreant Sable, beaked, winged and membered Or, holding between the claws an esquire’s helmet Or.

Cliff, Alistair

Arms
Per fess Sable and Argent a Pale counterchanged the Sable semy of Mullets Or
Crest
(upon a Helm with a Wreath of the Colours): A Wolf's Head erased Gules gorged with a Collar compony Sable and Argent each Sable piece charged with a Mullet Or attached thereto a Chain reflexed behind and held in the mouth the last link broken also Or
Authority

The College Arms, 1 March 2011. Agent: Clive Cheesman, Rouge Dragon, now Richmond.

Notes

For a badge: Two Talbots countercourant in pale that in chief Or that in base Sable each gorged with a plain Collar attached thereto a Line terminating in a Ring reflexed over the back and environing the other counterchanged.

Cliff, Christopher

Arms
Argent a chevron between in chief two ravens and in base a serpent wavy palewise all within a bordure Vert.
Authority

Canadian Heraldic Authority; Grant of Arms, with differences to Emily Karen Cliff and Christopher Douglas Cliff July 15, 2019 Vol. VII, p. 195.

Collins, Ron

Arms
Azure three Talbots passant Argent each resting the dexter forepaw on a Bezant
Crest
Upon a Helm with a Wreath Argent and Azure Within a Wreath of Oak Leaves fesswise Or a Stag at gaze Gules attired Or Mantled Azure lined Argent
Motto
Noli Libenter Sufferre Insipientes
Authority

Issued by the College of Arms (William Hunt – Windsor Herald) on 24th March 2012.

Connell, Howard

Arms
Per chevron grady of five Argent and Gules, in Chief Saint Cuthbert's Cross proper between two Quills Or feathered Gules and in base a Lymphad with Oars in action Gold and sail, flag and pennons Or.
Crest
Upon a wreath of the liveries within an ancient Crown Gold a Loaghtan Ram sejant erect affronty Gules with a collar of Cardynham Ring Chain, armed and unguled and grasping in the dexter forehoof a Quill Gold.
Motto
My Word is Law
Authority

The College of Arms, 2021 (Sir Thomas Woodcock Garter and Robert Noel Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms)

Notes

See The Heraldry Gazette, New Series 163, March 2022, p.5.
Badge (2011) Within and abutting a continuous Oval of Cardynham Ring Chain Gold a Sea-Pegasus with leonine paws winged maned and tufted and holding in the dexter foreclaws a Quill Or.
Artist: Neil Bromley.

Cooker, Tom

Arms
Azure a quintain Or supported by a horse forcene Argent charged on the shoulder with a saltire Gules
Crest
A cuckoo close proper
Motto
An Capall Bán Abú (The White Horse For Ever)
Authority

The Chief Herald of Ireland, 10 December 2005.

Cooper, Michael V OBE

Arms
Or on a Chevron Azure between three Swords points upwards Gules as many Wrens Gold on a Chief also Azure a Balance Gold.
Crest
Upon a Helm with a Wreath Or and Azure Issuing from a circlet composed of oak leaves erect Vert a demi female figure affronty proper habited veiled and ducally crowned Or holding in the dexter hand a Seax Azure and in the sinister a Corn Cockle flower slipped and leaved proper. Mantled Azure doubled Or.
Motto
Opera Cooperit Defectiones (Labour Overwhelms Deficiencies)
Authority

College of Arms. Warrant 30 June 1992, Letters Patent 1 Febraury 1993.

Notes

Badge: On a tun fesswise proper a Wren Gold.

Standard: Arms of Cooper in the hoist, barry of four argent and azure, with the badge aforementioned in the first and third compartments and the crest aforementioned in the second compartment.

Artists: Robert John Parsons  and Linda West.

Copping, Russ Wayne

Arms
Per bend sinister Sable and Argent a scarp raguly per bend sinister between five cross-crosslets fitchy two and three all counterchanged
Crest
Within an ancient crown Or a demi male griffin Sable armed beaked and rayed Argent holding in the dexter claw a two edged sword erect and in the sinister claw a flash of lightning bendwise Or
Motto
Nil Nisi Bonum (Nothing Unless It Be Good)
Authority

The College of Arms, 1 May 1995.

Cracroft-Brennan, Patrick

Arms
Per chevron Gules and Sable in chief two lions combattant Or and in base a rose Argent barbed and seeded proper all within a bordure engrailled Argent
Crest
A demi lion rampant Or holding a rose Argent barbed and seeded proper
Motto
Servabo Te
Authority

Matriculated in the Court of the Lord Lyon (vol.74, p.8) 5 February 1991

Craig, Dr David Crichton

Arms
Per fess Ermine and Argent on a fess Sable between in chief two millrinds and in base a garb Gules three crescents of the Second
Crest
A tower Sable window and port Gules within a chaplet of hazel leaves Vert
Motto
Vivitur Ingenio
Authority

The Court of the Lord Lyon, 10th August 1982. Register, volume 66, folio 24.

 

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