Wednesday 2 March 2016

Bullock, Bernie, Campbell, Carr.....




Edward Bullock


Motto: Nil Conscire sibi - Conscious of no wrong

A plain armorial with the motto in a ribbon at the base. As blazon, a beehive with a single bee. In the shield white in one half, and a party per chevron with two bull heads in the other.

Edward C. Bullock (1822–1861) was an American politician and Confederate officer in the American Civil War. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bullock)




William Burnie


Motto: Arcus Artes Astra - the bow, arts, and stars

Festoon armorial with a demi-lion as blazon. In the shield, a bow and arrow, a hand holding an ancor, three legs, with knees embowed. On the second half, two javlin, cossed with a mullet star and a crescent.

William Burnie m. circa 1880. Born in Kirkmabreck to Hugh Carsriggan Burnie and Jane Douglas. William married Agnes Templeton and had 13 children. He passed away on 1925.
(http://www.ancestry.com.au/genealogy/records/william-burnie_46039823)

Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania. When founded in 1827, Burnie was named Emu Bay but it was renamed for William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnie,_Tasmania)

OR

William Burnie (1760 - 1836) , in Cuil, Kirkcudbright, Scotland
(http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burnie-28)





W.H. Campbell


Motto: Ne Obliviscaris – Forget Not
A stylised Plain Armorial with a characterful boar’s head as blazon, and in the shield two ancient sailing boats, and two grony of eight.
Campbell, William Henry, 1814-1888, M.D. (http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/vufind/Record/82139/Details)






Collegium sive Aula D.Catharinae in Universitae Cantabrigiensi


Early Jacobian armorial - wheel depicted on their shield is a breaking wheel, a torture/execution device of the middle ages

Mention of bookplate : Title: A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, Together with the Sense of Antiquity Upon this Argument
Author: Collier, Jeremy. Date: 1698. Description: Full leather, blind stamped and tooled, goffered edges in gold. Laid paper with watermark. Long 'S' type, Italic, Roman, and Gothic type. Text primarily English with some French and Latin. Marginal notes, catchwords, and signatures. Publisher's advertisement. Errata at end of table of contents. Decorated bookplate "Collegium sive aula D. Catharinae in Universitate Cantabrigiensi."
Call #: PN2047 C6 1698 (Rare Book)
(http://www.csuchico.edu/lbib/spc/iepages/rarebookhighlights.html)






Ex Bibliotheca Collegii Santissimae et Individuae Trinitatis in Academia Cantabrigien si


Motto: Virtus Vera Nobilitas - Virtue is true nobility

Bookplate signed E.W, S.C in small letters.

A Jacobian armorial. Within the shield three roses surrounding a patterned chevron. Motto in ribbon at base. A passant (walking) lion between two closed books.

Probably given as prize.





William Carr


Motto set into ribbon at the base: Nil Desperandum - do not despair; never despair.!

A plain armorial with three mullet stars in a chevron, with a demi-stag as blazon.

William Carr (1664–1720)
OR William Carr II, FRS (died 16 May 1742) was an English mayor and Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carr)


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