Heraldry Society Lecture

 Professor Gillian Black of the School of Law at Edinburgh University gave the John Brooke-Little Lecture  by Zoom for the Heraldry Society. Her topic was Making a Difference? Heraldry, human rights, and matters of differencing. 

In the course of her talk, Professor Black referred to the practice of Arms of affection  sometimes called Arms of Patronage. An example is found in volume II of the Public Register:

These are the arms of Deas Thomson, later knighted, Accountant-General of the Navy. The third quarter is the arms of Sir Charles Middleton, later Lord Barham. The entry states:that the arms "have been granted to him the said John Deas Thomson by the special consent and approbation of his Lordship, and are assumed by him as a mark of respect and gratitude on his part for the affectionate regard shown to his mother, Katherine Deas, and distinguished patronage manifested to himself by that illustrious nobleman."

Parted per pale Or and Azure a lion rampant within a double tressure flowered and counterflowered all counterchanged of the same.