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| Richard
B.B. Miller,
Baron of
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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 5th March 2009.
Registration No. 0177. (Lordship & Barony Register)
Arms:
Gules on a chevron
argent between three
double-headed eagles
displayed Or three
wolves' heads erased
Vert
Crest:
A tree trunk rising from
a mound scattered with
petals and putting forth
a leaved branch,
suspended therefrom by a
line Or a cornucopia
Gules replenished
proper.
Motto:
Spei Bonae Atque Animi
(Of Good Hope and
Courage)
Grant: College
of Arms Grant to Richard
Bruce Bernadotte MILLER
of Cape Town, South
Africa. Garter,
Clarenceux and Norroy
and Ulster Kings of
Arms. 23/12/2005. Folio
171/205.
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On
the shield, the wolves'
heads represent the
Anglo-Scottish family of
Miller. The
double-headed eagles
represent the armiger's
descent in the maternal
line from the
continental families of
d'Alvarez de Asturias,
Borcherds and Wiber. The
tree trunk in the crest
indicates descent from
the Borcherds family.
The cornucopia in the
crest alludes to the
grantee's marriage to
Mary Magdalene
Bernadotte Miller,
Baroness of Jedburgh
Forest; in art the
Magdalene is often
represented pouring
ointment from a horn. It
is imagined that some of
the petals that lie on
the ground have fallen
from the horn of plenty,
whereof the three
colours (white pink and
blue) are significant to
the three children of
the family; Lance
Bernadotte Miller
(No.0144 Vol.1); Jonathan Bernadotte Miller (No.0347 Vol.2)
and Mary Ann Miller.
The baron's ancestors
were originally from the
Midlothian area near
Edinburgh and later
settled in the Scottish
Borders, near Jedburgh.
The baron's
great-grandfather was
James Wilkie Morris of
Kelso. James' daughter,
Eleanore Waugh Morris
(then aged 18) married
the baron's grandfather,
William Bernadotte
Miller (aged 42) in
Margate, Kent. William
took his new bride to
the Cape of Good Hope,
South Africa, where the
Millers had settled in
1824. The baron's father
was George Bruce
Bernadotte Miller, JP, a
WWI survivor of the
Battle of Dellville
Wood. His mother was
Sonia Diana d'Alvarez de
Asturias Borcherds
Wiber.
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