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Private
Registrations:
The Royal College of
Arms of Georgia June,
2011 and The United
States Heraldic
Registry, 2009.
The red and sky blue
field allude to the
armiger's service in the
Territorial Army, Royal
Air Force Music Services
and The Central Band of
the Royal Australian Air
Force, The martlets,
Sussex his birthplace
and the cherub from
Trinity College of Music
London. The crwth, and
in the crest the Leek
and dragons wings, his
Welsh ancestry and the
red roses to Lancashire,
his father's birthplace.
Golden Wattle is
Australia's floral
emblem.
The two horns in the
badge are a symbol of
music and the cord a
baldrick linking the
horns, rather in the way
the Tudors linked their
initials with a
decorative knot. The
trefoil is a reference
to the Arms of the late
7th Marquess of Bristol
in whose family the
Manor of Holdingham was
held for around 300
years.
Married, with one son
Glen and 2 grandsons
Brandon and Mason the
Armiger is a Fellow of
Trinity, Victoria and
National Colleges of
Music, Associate of
London College of Music
and the Australian Guild
of Music and Speech. He
is a Companion of the
Company of Armigers
(Australian Chapter),
Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts, Hon.
Fellow of the Armorial
and Heraldry Society of
Australasia and Life
Member of the Royal
Society of St. George
(Melbourne Branch). A
Knight Commander of the
Order of the Eagle of
Georgia and the Seamless
Tunic of Our Lord Jesus
Christ, he is a
recipient of The
Australian Defence
Medal, The Nauru
Independence Medal and
The United Nations 2001
Year of the Volunteer
Medal.
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