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Margaret Hamilton of Rockhall, Baroness of Lag

Registered: The International Register of Arms, 13th November 2009. Registration No. 0166. (Lordship & Barony Register)

Arms: Per fess enhanced Gules and Azure, a barrulet enhanced Argent, in base a pair of tailor's shears points upwards expanded Argent and in chief two cinquefoils Ermine.

Crest: A monkey proper habited in a sleeveless jacket Azure and a fez Gules and playing a flute Argent.

Motto: Family Secure

Granted: 26th October 2009, 53rd Page; 88th Volume of The Public Register of All Armorial Bearings in Scotland

Armorial Bearings
                                                of Margaret Hamilton of
                                                Rockhall, Baroness of
                                                Lag

The arms depict much of what is important in the armiger’s life. The silver tailor’s shears in memory of her father, a tailor, and alluding to the maternal family name of Silver; the two cinquefoils for the family name of Hamilton, one each for her son and daughter; the helm to mark her Scottish feudal barony.

The crest is an allusion to the tale of the Grierson of Lag who kept a monkey with a silver whistle and every time the monkey blew on the whistle the servants were expected to attend on the monkey, when Grierson died it was reported that the servants cut the monkey’s throat and thus Rockhall is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of the monkey.

The motto ‘Family Secure’ answers the Grierson motto of ‘Hoc Securior’ (All Secure). The armiger is the first to receive baronial recognition from the Lord Lyon since the abolition of feudalism in Scotland.

 

 

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