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Brunswick Herald of Arms in Ordinary was an English officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. It was created in 1726 and abolished in 1857. Part of the Order of the Bath. Gentleman Usher[2]
By a special addition to the Statutes dated 14 January 1726, ... Usher, whose duty was to guard the Chapter Boom when the Knights were sitting as a body, was made Brunswick Herald with all the rights and immunities of a Herald in England.[3][4]
- Sawyer, Edmund [5](b. after 1687, d. 1759) 1726, under a revision of the order's statutes, he was given the office of Brunswick herald (albeit this was an office peculiar to the order, and did not as such attach him to the College of Arms) July or August 1738 (
- Heard, Sir Isaac (774–1814
- Beltz, George Frederick 1814[6]
- Sir Albert William Woods 24 November 1841..
Following the reorganization of the order in 1857 and the abolition of those offices he was made registrar and secretary of the Order of the Bath, as embodied in the new statutes of the order dated 31 January 1859.
Arms - three crowns on one side and arms of Brunswick on the reverse[7] [8]
References
[edit]- ^ A Manual of Dignities, Privilege, and Precedence. Whittaker and Company. 1844. p. 495. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- ^ Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris (1842). History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire. J. Hunter. p. 500.
- ^ Risk, James Charles (1972). The history of the Order of the Bath and its insignia. Spink. p. 14. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- ^ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Society of Antiquaries of London. 1905. p. 108. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- ^ Berry, William (1828). Encyclopaedia Heraldica Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry. Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper. p. 267. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sir Sidney (1903). Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder & Company. p. 87. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- ^ Tagore, Sourindro Mohun (1884). The Orders of Knighthood, British and Foreign: With a Brief Review of the Titles of Rank and Merit in Ancient Hindusthan ... p. 157. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
- ^ A Manual of Dignities, Privilege, and Precedence. Whittaker and Company. 1844. p. 495. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
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