Friday, 1 January 2016

Interesting Heraldic Bookplates


J. Walpole D’Oyly

Crest armorial with motto in ribbon above blazon – Omne Solum Forti Patria - Every land is a homeland for the courageous man; and below also in a ribbon, Do no Ylle, Quoth D’Oylle

(- Sir Charles D’Oyly’s motto, Otago Witness , Issue 1964, 11 July 1889, Page 32; http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW18890711.2.103.6).

The blazon is a demi-dragon holding a fleur-de-lis between its hands.



Patrick W.V. Dudgeon

Plain Armorial with motto inside ribbon at base – With Heart and Hand.

As blazon, from a heart a hand holding a sword. In the shield a chevron divided, a mullet star divided, and lions face with water coming from its mouth, a heart with a sword running through it. There’s a name hand written in ink on the bookplate – J. A. Bennet (could be J.A. Bennett, Australia, 1853 – 1929 – Painter).

Patrick William Vilet Dudgeon, 1818 - Circa 1866
(http://www.myheritage.com/names/patrick_dudgeon)




John Duerdin

19th Century bookplate. Crest armorial with motto in ribbon at base: Le bon jour viendra - Good times will come.

The blazon is a pine tree.

Born in Great Marsden, Lancashire, England on 17 Aug 1740 to Jonathon Duerden. John married Elizabeth Whittaker and had 12 children. He passed away on 27 Mar 1805 in Colne, Lancashire, England. 
(http://www.ancestry.com.au/genealogy/records/john-duerden_177608986?geo_a=r&o_iid=41019&o_lid=41019&o_sch=Web+Property)





Henry Thomas Dunster

A Crest Armorial. As blazon – out of the top of a tower with two cross-windows, an arm cuffed holding a spear.

Henry Thomas Dunster (1833 - 1916), b. 1833 at Battle, Sussex, England; m. 1863 Mary McGrath ( - 1943) at Gundagai, NSW #1998_1863; d. 1916 at Adelong, NSW #5957_1916 aged 83.

(http://suzieq.net.au/HTMLFiles/HTMLFiles_40/P43171.html)






Richard Dyott

A Cloak and shield armorial. As blazon, a heraldic tiger, passant, chained and ringed. On the shield, two more tigers, a fess of vair pattern and a inescutcheon with a cinquefoil.

Richard Dyott (1808 – 13 February 1891) was an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1880. 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dyott_(died_1891))

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