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Nicholas Spencer Fitzroy Cram-Sinclair, Baron of Brough,
Lord of the Manor of Crimdon, BA (Hons), PGDip,Cert.CE, FSA Scot

Registered: The International Register of Arms, 25th February 2006. Registration No. 00026. (Lordship & Barony Register)

Arms: Quarterly,
1st, Argent, a cross engrailed Sable.
2nd and 3rd, Argent, a mullet Azure between 3 inescutcheons Gules.
4th, Argent, on a cross engrailed Sable, a human heart Gules, in dexter chief, a crescent Gules
Overall at the fess point, an inescutcheon Gules, charged with 3 fleurs-de-lis Argent.

The shield ensigned below the helmet with a chapeau Gules, double Ermine, behind which is draped a feudo-baronial mantle doubled of silk Argent, fur-edged of miniver and collar Ermine.

Crest: On a human heart Gules, winged Or, a sparrowhawk proper.

The Arms of
                                                Nicholas S.F.
                                                Cram-Sinclair of
                                                Assery-Brough, Baron of
                                                Brough

Supporters: (granted to the armiger solely for the term of his life) Dexter: A griffin Gules, wings elevated, armed, beaked and winged Or Sinister: A raven Sable proper.

Standard: 4 yards in length with rounded unspoilt ends having the Arms of Sinclair (viz:- Argent, a cross engrailed Sable) in the hoist and of 4 tracts, bendy-wavy Argent and Gules, with the aforesaid badge depicted and displayed 3 times, along with the cri-de-guerre, ’HRAFNS-MERKI(L)’ in letters Sable upon 2 transverse bands Or.

Badge: A raven displayed and volant Sable.

Mottoes: Above Crest: 'Fortiter Et Sincere'(Boldly and sincerely)
Below Shield: 'Med Logum Skal Land Byggja'(By law shall the land be built up)

Recorded: Lyon Office Birthbrief of Hew/Hugh Sinclair, 4th Laird-Baron of Brough, c.1671-1714, held within Joseph Stacey, Ross Herald(1663-86)'s archival papers.

Registration: Bureau of Heraldry, Dept. of Arts and Culture of South Africa, regd. 21st June 2001 (H4/3/4/682), Govt. Notice 446, Govt. Gazette 23318, dated 18th April 2002 (arms), Govt. Notice 1113,Govt.Gazette 25275,dated 8th August 2003(badge and standard) - Certificate nos.3437 (arms, supporters and compartment), 3438 (badge) and 3439 (standard), dated 30th July 2004.

Further Private Registrations: United States Heraldic Registry: regd. 15th February 2006, no. 20060215K (arms): 'Heraldische Gemeinschaft Westfalen: regd. May 2006, no. DEV 200006 (arms,supporters and compartment).

Registro Internacionale de Armas Gentiticias (RIAG), No.792, dated 14th October 2015.

Registro Araldico Italiano (RAI), no.573, dated 13th December 2019.

The armorial rendering (but not standard and badge, which were done by Achievements Ltd.) was originally depicted, both in colour and bookplate form by Max Marnau.

The arms are a revised version of those of the Shetlander feudo-baronial Sinclair family of Brough (1563/87-1714), of which the armiger (as Baron of Brough) is the titular representer; while the supporters with the lower motto and badge/standard (in the Norne dialect) allude to the family's Norse Viking heritage as cadet descendants of the dynastic 'Prince'-Jarls (EARLS) of Orkney (c.894-1470/1), commemorating the latter's part in the historic Irish battle of Clontarf (Good Friday 1014). 
 
The armiger's maternal line, the Jamaican-based mercantile/planter cadet branch of the Laing family of 
Pa(b/p)dale and Strynzi (a/e), Orkney are represented by the crest's sparrowhawk. 

The Standard of
                                              Nicholas S.F.
                                              Cram-Sinclair of
                                              Assery-Brough, Baron of
                                              Brough

The inescutcheon represents the armiger's late adoptive stepfather John Charles Johnson Cram (whose maternal line of Dixon-Johnson provide the upper motto and through whom the armiger now holds the nominal Lordship of the Manor of Crimdon in Co.Durham), lineal descendant of the N.E. anglicised branch of the German feudo-baronial Von Cramm family of Oelber and Volkesheim in Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel.

 

 

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