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The
Armiger is the
former Chief
Minister of
Australia’s
Northern
Territory and
Federal
President of
the Liberal
Party of
Australia. He
is an alumnus
of the
Australian
National
University,
Melbourne Law
School,
Adelaide and
Sturt
Universities;
also former
Visiting
Fellow at The
Lauterpacht
Centre of
International
Law Cambridge
University.
He is
a Fellow of
the Australian
Institute of
Management and
Australian
Institute of
Company
Directors. He
is also a Life
Member and
Fellow of the
Australian
College of
Education
Conferred
Honorary Life
Member of
LAWASIA 1996
he also
received a
Commission as
Queens Counsel
in 1997 as
Attorney
General and
First Law
Officer in the
NT.
He is
a recipient of
the Panglima
Gemilang
Dariah
Kinabalu Yang
Amat Mulia
(Knight
Commander Most
Honourable
Order of
Kinabalu Sabah
Malaysia) and
the Bintang
Jasa Pratama
(Order of
Service,
Republic of
Indonesia).
In
2006 he was
made a
Companion of
the Order of
Australia
in
the Queen’s
Birthday
Honours.
Awarded for
eminent
achievement
and merit of
the highest
degree in
service to
Australia or
humanity at
large it is
the most
senior
civilian award
conferred in
Australia.
He is
a Knight of
Magistral
Grace of The
Sovereign
Military
Hospitaller
Order of St.
John of
Jerusalem, of
Rhodes and of
Malta.
He is
also a
Commissioned
Officer in the
Royal
Australian
Navy;
recipient
of the Reserve
Force Medal,
the Australian
Defence Medal
and Centenary
Medal. He is
the former
National
Chairman of
the Defence
Reserve
Support
Council of
Australia.
He
was accorded
the title The
Honourable
for Life by HM
Queen
Elizabeth II
of Australia
1999 on
retirement as
Chief
Minister.
His
grant of Arms
recognizes his
late father
Councillor Les
Stone
JP the
first Mayor of
the City of
Wodonga
elected 1973.
His mother
Councillor Pam
Stone
OAM
JP was
the first
woman Mayor
elected 1985.
Shane
Stone traces
his ancestry
to John and
Harriet STONE
from Plymouth,
England
disembarked
Morton Bay
Queensland in
1866. His
maternal line
he traces to
Ellen
WAINWRIGHT
alias Esther
ECCLES a First
Fleet convict
who arrived
Botany Bay in
1788.
The crest
which
sits atop of
the helmet
comprises a
Northern
Australian sea
eagle
(described in
the Patent as
a white
breasted sea
eagle) in
flight with a
barramundi in
its talons.
Three colors
have been used
for the mantling;
the official
colours of
Australia’s
Northern
Territory –
black, white
and ochre
(although
their tincture
is described
differently
under the laws
of heraldry).
In this case
the shield
background is
comprised of
the single tincture
white. The charge
is the red
lion of Devon
(Lion rampant
body roughly
vertical,
forepaws
raised to
strike) as the
Stone family
arrived in
Australia (Moreton
Bay, Queensland) from the South Hams, Devon in
1866. The lion
is grasping a
sprig of
Australian
wattle (Australia’s national flower symbolizing ‘coming
to
Australia’).
The
lion has
convict
shackles as
both a pun and
to acknowledge
the maternal
line of the
Stone Family
which dates
from Esther
Eccles alias
Ellen
Wainwright
First Fleet
Convict who
arrived in
Botany Bay on
the Prince of
Wales 1788
(Armigers 13th
Great
Grandmother).
The shield
is surrounded
by the Collar
of the Order
of Australia
(three Stone
Family members
have been
admitted to
the Order –
mother Pam
Stone OAM,
Shane Stone
AC and
wife Josephine
Stone
AM).
The
selected
family motto
is Strength
Honour Service
adopted in
English. The
motto selected
best
encapsulated
the individual
traits and
demonstrated
service to the
wider
community by
Stone family
members.
The
Northern
Australian
green tree
frog was
selected as
the family
badge. This
frog is
prolific
across the
Northern
tropical
regions of
Australia. The
border of the
Grant of Arms
comprises
orchids found
in Northern
Australia
interspersed
with small
green tree
frogs and
features the
Coats of Arms
of the Queen,
Earl Marshal
and College of
Arms and Kings
of Arms.
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