The lion Argent on a Purpure field alludes, in a reversed way, to the traditional arms associated with the surname Silva. The lion was the armiger's favourite animal and football club mascot. The lion also alludes to the fearless attitude for which the late armiger is remembered by his grandchildren.

By contrast, the rose alludes to the countryside life that the armiger loved, and the almost forgotten family story that he used to tell his daughter about his own grandfather working as a gardener in the household of His Most Faithful Majesty King Charles I of Portugal and the Algarve.

The clarion in the crest symbolizes the armiger's love for music, especially opera.

Fernando Augusto da Silva was born on January 14th, 1920, in Lisbon and married Maria de Lourdes de Matos Salvado Silva; together they had one daughter, Isabel Maria Salvado Silva Pinto Correia.