Monday, 1 July 2019

Crest of the Day: 7th Earl of Aberdeen

John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair KT KP GCMG GCVO PC (1847 – 1934), known as The Earl of Aberdeen from 1870 to 1916, as well as serving twice as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, appropriately for today's celebration of Canada Day  he was the seventh Governor General of Canada.



Crest: two arms holding a bow and arrow straight upward in a shooting posture and at full draught all Proper.





One Hundred Years ago today

  From the Public Register 100 years ago today, the arms of Sir Henry Craik Bt. P.C. KCB, MP for the Scottish Universities and son of the M...