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The
armiger is a
Knight of the
International
Knightly Order
Valiant of Saint
George and Knight
of Saint Thomas of
Canterbury. He has
received The
Freedom of the
City of London
(2014) and has
been awarded the
Queen Elizabeth II
Diamond and
Platinum Jubilee
Medals. He held a
Queens' Commission
in the Royal Air
Force Reserve and
also spent a
career as a Design
and Quality
Engineer. His
interests are:
aviation, military
history and family
history, and has
served as a
Trustee/Director
of 'South West
Airfields Heritage
Trust', an
organisation
helping to
preserve the
history of four
WW2 Airfields in
South West
England.
The arms are based
upon those of
existing Tame
armorial bearings
viz: Tame, of
Fairfold Co.
Gloucester:
Argent, a dragon
Vert and a lion
rampant Azure,
crowned Or,
combatant. And
Tame, Co. Oxford:
Or, a dragon Vert,
and a lion rampant
Azure crowned of
the first,
combatant.
Retaining
the dragon
and lion coat of
other Tame
families gives a
tentative link to
the ancient arms.
The dragon's
wings, in this
iteration, may be
taken to signify
flight alluding to
the RAF commission
and, perhaps, the
crowned lion could
allude to a king
of the skies.
Instead of the
plain field of the
original arms, the
field has been
divided per pale
Or and Vert
(yellow and green)
with the charges
of the dragon and
lion
counterchanged,
now between a
sword representing
the City of London
and the armiger's
Freedom
thereof.
To further
difference from
the original, a
chief has been
added which allows
the introduction
of other
references. In
heraldry, a chief
nebuly is said to
represent clouds.
Bleu Celeste is a
rarely occurring
tincture, used by
the RAF. Here the
chief nebuly
coloured bleu
celeste is an
obvious reference
to the RAF. Upon
the chief is
placed an escallop
reversed,
representing the
armiger's
membership as a Knight
of Saint Thomas of
Canterbury,
between two King
Protea flowers
which represent
the armiger's
family connections
with South Africa.
The crest of a
ship references
the fact that the
armiger's maternal
3rd Great
Grandmother, Emily
Elizabeth Weymouth
Marsh, was born on
the ship HMSS
Weymouth while on
its way to the
Cape in 1820.
The motto "Nomine
Mitis Spiritu
Ferox" may be
translated to mean
'Gentle in Name,
Fierce in Spirit'
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