300 Years ago in the Register

 There is an entry in the Register for 1722 for James Garham of Airth, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates and Judge of the High Court of Admiralty. Graham purchased Airth Castle, near Falkirk, in 1717 thereby gaining the territorial desgnation of "of Airth." He had studied Law in Louvain and eventually been appointed Judge Admiral of Scotland by the Duke of Lennox, the hereditary Lord High Admiral. 

 The blazon is: Quarterly first and fourth Or on a chief Sable three escallops of the First, second and third Argent a fess Imbattled betwixt three roses Gules 

Crest: a dexter hand issuing holding a sword in pale Proper. 

Motto: Non immemor (a Latin rendering of the Graham motto "Ne oublie")

Photo credit: National Trust for Scotland, Gladstones Land

He petitioned for arms in the same year as his rebuilding of the castle he had bought. He matriculated arms with a very small difference (the fess embattled)  from those of his chief, the Duke of Montrose.