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Registration:
Chronicler of Arms of
Castilla and León, H.E.
Don Alfonso de
Ceballos-Escalera y
Gila, Marquis de La
Floresta No. 48/2018,
6th Dec. 2018.
The
armiger was born in 1952
in the Governor’s
residence in Bombay,
India. His family have
been expatriates in
India since 1804. The
family descends from
Peter Whannell (armiger
– Lyon Register Vol.1
2496), who’s grandson
Major General Peter
Whannell became the
Auditor General of the
Madras Army of the
Honourable East India
Company.
After
India obtained her
independence, all
foreign nationals were
encouraged to leave and
the armiger’s family
immigrated to Canada,
where his formative
years were spent.
At
age 18, the armiger
joined the Royal Air
Force and he was the
first (and to this date
the only) British
serviceman to have
initially attested in
Germany. He has served
in both Northern Ireland
and on the Falkland
Island during the South
Atlantic Conflict.
The
arms have no particular
rationale. The brief was
that they could be
easily blazoned and
emblazoned.
Rendition
by Ljubodrag Grujic
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