Friday, 8 March 2024

International Women's Day 2024

  The Lyon Office's contribution to this year's International Women's Day is two fine paintings from the Register:

The arms of Florence Douglas or Hooper, 1933.

Quarterly: first and fourth Argent a man's heart Gules crowned with an antique crown Or, on a chief azure three mullets of the First (for Douglas); second and third Azure a bend betwixt six cross-crosslets fitchée Or (for Mar); in the fess point a crescent chequy all within a bordure compony invected Gules and Argent charged alternately with crescents and mullets counterchanged.

And


Arms of Stella Grant-Duff-Ainslie or Ruthven-Stuart 1928:
Quarterly first and fourth Gules a lotus flower slipped between three antique crowns Or (for Grant); second, Or a cross flory Sable, on a chief Vert and Aesculapian rod between two lotus flowers slipped Or (for Ainslie); third, Vert on a fess dancetté Ermine between a buck's head cabossed in chief and two escallops in base, a cross flory between two boars' heads erased Or armed and langued Gules (for Duff); all within a bordure invected Azure.




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...