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Joseph Grote

An Armorial Festoon. As blazon, two elephant trunks erect, either side of an oak tree. In the shield are more trees and a greek cross with a mullet star on it.

Joseph Grote (1748-1814) ( http://www.geni.com/people/Joseph-Grote/6000000027650437557)

Riversdale W. Grenfell

A Crest Armorial with the motto: Loyal Devoire - Loyal duty. As blazon, a chapeau with ermine patterning, with a passant griffin on top.

Francis Octavius Grenfell, VC (4 September 1880 – 24 May 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was born on 4 September 1880 to Sophia and Pascoe Du Pré Grenfell. He was one of fifteen children. He had a twin brother, Riversdale Grenfell, also in the 9th Lancers, who was killed in action in September 1914. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Octavius_Grenfell)

Randolph Greenway of Thavies Inn and of Chertley in Surry Gent

A Chippendale armorial with a griffin’s head as blazon, and three martletts above two bars.

UK Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices Indentures, 1710-1811; Randolph Greenway, residence: 4 Nov 1731 – Thavies Inn 

(http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=CLP_TAX&uidh=000&rank=1&new=1&msT=1&gsln=Greenway&gss=angs-g&MS_AdvCB=1&MSAV=2&gsfn_x=XO&gsln_x=XO&cp=0&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&noredir=true&so=2&geo_a=r&geo_s=uk&geo_t=uk&geo_v=2.0.0&o_iid=41012&o_lid=41012&o_sch=Web+Property)

George Bellas Greenough

A Plain Armorial with double blazon – the left a hunting horn with the sun in splendour shining through; and to the right a stag’s head per fess indented, holding in its mouth a fleur-de-lis. In the shield are motifs of the hunting horn, displayed griffin, and fleur-de-lis.

Geographer and geologist (1778-1885)

George Bellas Greenough FRS FGS (18 January 1778 – 2 April 1855) was an English geologist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bellas_Greenough)

Elliot Grasett

A Plain Armorial with motto: Meliora Sequi – I follow better things. As blazon, a bow and arrow sitting between thistle leaves. In the shield are thistles, mullet stars, vair patterning and a saltire cross.

Elliot Blair Grasett, b. October 12, 1888, Allensmore, Herefordshire, Died September 25, 1915 in Battle of Loos 

(http://www.geni.com/people/Elliot-Grasett/6000000003891362704); Lieutenant, 28th Punjabis, Indian Army (https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/about-jesus-college/history/first-world-war/the-roll-of-honour/grasett-elliot-blair/)

Francisci R. C. Grant

Grant (Lt. Col. F. R. C.)( typed on bookplate surround))

E libris Francisci R. C. Grant. A Pictorial bookplate with name around outside border.

The shield bears a chevron engrailed ermine between three eastern crowns. The motto above the shield reads Leges juraque serva - Observe the laws and ordinances. There are also roses surrounding the shield.

Another bookplate in the Clements Collection National Art Library

Armorial bookplate: “E libris Francisci R. C. Grant” [Franks 12518]

Grant, Francis Richard Charles (1834 - 1899)( https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/node/34446)

Bonouvrier Glover

An armorial surrounded by a mantle (cloak). As blazon, a eagle with wings displayed, and in the shield are three crescents, around an embattled fess.

Mention of: The baronetage of England 1839 – Bonouvrier Glover (1760s) (https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=7CEIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA320&lpg=PA320&dq=Bonouvrier+Glover&source=bl&ots=rF4QpG5akq&sig=4ZMsdy-dkoGZYljYdptrKFx31g0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3hubU8qfKAhUDi5QKHXTzBQUQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=Bonouvrier%20Glover&f=false)

Will of Bonouvrier Glover, Captain in His Majesty's Royal Navy of Queen Ann Street near Cavendish Square , Middlesex, 16 August 1780 (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D382363)

Norcliffe Gilpin

An Armorial with the motto: Dictis Factisque Simplex - Simple in words and deeds. As blazon, an armoured arm holding a laurel branch. In the shield on the left, a boar, to the right a passant lion as chief, with three martlett birds around an engrailed chevron with three cross-crosslets on it.

Norcliffe Gilpin. Regiment: 37th Foot. Date of Service: 1859. Born: 1840. (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13291231)

1851 Census Norcliffe Gilpin, b. 1840, residence Sussex. (http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?uidh=000&rank=1&new=1&msT=1&gsln=Gilpin&gss=angs-c&MS_AdvCB=1&MSAV=2&gsfn_x=XO&gsln_x=XO&cp=0&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&noredir=true&gl=CEN_1850&gst=&ghc=50&fh=550&fsk=BEFmZmYIgAAe7gAFIA8-61-&pgoff=11)

Norcliffe Gilpin (of Palewell) b 14/02/1840 Dublin, c St Ann's, Dublin, m.,Louise Maria Nassar, living 1903.

Norcliffe is on the 1881 census, living in London. (http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GILPIN/2001-04/0987661567)

Lieut-Col. Alexander K. Gillespie

A Pictorial bookplate with artist Nevile Wilkinson noted. The motto: Qui me tanget pœnitebit - Whoever touch me will repent. As blazon, a salient mountain-lion or cat. In the shield, are motifs of an ancient sailing ship, a cross-crosslet fitchee, woman’s faces, a heron feeding its young in its nest, a hand with a dagger, a lattice, wheat, a griffins head, and martlett stars.

Sir Nevile Wilkinson – engraver.

Wilkinson, Sir Nevile Rodwell (1869–1940), army officer, artist, and herald, was born on 26 October 1869 at Highgate, Middlesex, the third son of Colonel Josiah Wilkinson. Wilkinson established the heraldic museum at the Ulster office in 1909—the first of its kind in the world. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36905

Lieut-Col. Alexander K. Gillespie, The London Gazette, Jan 14th, 1910 – Army Pay Department. Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander K. Gillespie, Staff Paymaster, retires on retired pay. Dated 15th January, 1910. https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28329/page/341/data.pdf)

Charles Pierrepont Hutchinson

A (garter) seal Armorial, with a Wyvern (or firedrake) as blazon. There is a rampant lion in the centre of the shield surrounded by ten cross crosslets.

Charles Pierrepont Hutchinson QSO, MBE, QC, 1906 – 1997. Charles Pierrepont Hutchinson – believed to be the country’s oldest Queen’s Counsel – died in Auckland on 5 August 1997 aged 91. Born in Wiltshire in the United Kingdom, Mr Hutchinson immigrated to New Zealand in 1925, working as a farmer until he became a law student in 1936. Admitted to the bar in New Zealand in 1940, he was called to the bar of England and Wales (Lincoln’s Inn) in 1945 and practised in London from 1945 to 1953. He was a partner in Russell McVeagh from 1955 to 1964, when he left the firm to take silk. (https://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news-and-communications/people-in-the-law/obituaries/obituaries-list/charles-pierrepont-hutchinson-qso,-mbe,-qc,-1906-1997)

The Revd Charles Pierrepont Hutchinson (1831/2-1898), who was descended from the father of the regicide John Hutchinson (http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/34072)

Edward Nicholas Hurt

Armorial with the motto: Mane prœdam, vespere spolium - Game in the morning and a feast at night. As blazon a stag trippant, pierced by an arrow in the haunch, with a crescent pierced on its side. Motifs in the shield include cinquefoil, pierced crescents, a trippant stag, a hunting horn, cross-crossletts fitchee, and a fess, chevron.

Edward Nicholas Hurt – b. Jan 17 1795, Derbyshire – d. Aug 7 1867, London. (http://www.geni.com/people/Edward-Nicholas-Hurt/6000000008622632264)

1812, Articles of clerkship (as a solicitor or attorney) for Edward Nicholas Hurt, articled to William J Lockett, with affidavit. (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C13350007)

Hunter Weston (Gould) Lieut.-Col.

Typed on surround – 1823-1904, Commanded in Indian Mutiny, etc. Armorial.

Golden Age Armorial. Motto: Aquila non captat muscas - The eagle doesn't capture flies (don't sweat the small stuff). There are two blazons – the left: an eagle regardent with wings outstretched, with a crescent on the beast and each wing; the right a sejant greyhound with a antique crown around its neck, with a cross-crosslett on its shoulder. On the shield, motifs of the hunting horn, ermine pattern, cross-crosslett, cross-patonce, marletts, crescents and displayed eagles.

Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston KCB DSO GStJ (23 September 1864 – 18 March 1940) was a British Army general who served in World War I at Gallipoli and in the very early stages of the Somme Offensive. He was also a Member of Parliament. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylmer_Hunter-Weston) 

Travers Christmas Humphreys

Armorial with motto: Be Always Just. As blazon, a horse’s head. In the shield, a lion passant guardant, and a group of three horse’s heads.

Travers Christmas Humphreys, QC (15 February 1901 – 13 April 1983) was an English barrister who prosecuted several controversial cases in the 1940s and 1950s, and later became a judge at the Old Bailey. He also wrote a number of works on Mahayana Buddhism. In his day he was the best-known British convert to Buddhism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Humphreys)