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John Basil Edward (Baz) Manning |
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Registered: The International
Register of Arms, 8th Jan. 2016. Registration No. 0380 (Vol.3).
Arms: Or semy of Millrinds Azure a Chief dancetty of two
full points upwards Purpure pierced twice of the field billetwise
throughout.
Crest: Upon a Mount growing therefrom Giant Red
Paintbrushes (Castilleja miniata) slipped and leaved proper an
Heraldic Antelope statant erect per fess dancetty Gules and Purpure
armed tufted unguled and winged Or holding with the sinister
forehoof and by a guige Tenny in the dexter forehoof an Escutcheon
Argent.
Motto: Sine Qua Non
Grant: College of Arms. Granted 30th
December 2000. Agent, Robert Noel, Lancaster Herald.
Arms painted by John Ferguson |
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The armiger’s artistic
career is symbolised throughout the achievement. The field is based
on the arms of Lincoln's Inn, the armiger’s first major client, with
the tinctures reversed and the purple of its lion colouring the
chief and crest. The chief represents a portion of a raised
portcullis, the first example of this in heraldry. This symbolises
the armiger’s two most important clients: the Palace of Westminster
(which has a portcullis badge) where he has painted the heraldry on
the inside walls, ceilings and shields since 1999, and Windsor
Castle, (where the portcullis reference is obvious) where he has
painted the Garter Knights' shields since the restoration of St
George's Hall. His mother's family claim decent from the first Baron
Cloncurry, whose arms are remembered in the chief and the escutcheon
in the crest.
The heraldic antelope is a direct reference to heraldry, holding a
white shield as the symbol of the heraldic artist, as it is a blank
shield ready for painting. The beast is winged as a reference to the
armiger’s time in the RAF and his lifelong interest in aviation,
while it has both hooves planted firmly on the ground because this
passionate interest is just that and has never enabled him to fly.
It stands in a bed of paintbrush flowers which are a new plant for
British heraldry, only once being used before in a Canadian
corporate grant. These are an obvious reference to a life of
painting and a more subtle one to commemorate, at the then Chief
Herald of Canada, Robert Watt's request, his attendance at the
Artists' Workshop of the Ottawa Heraldry Congress of 1996, the giant
red paintbrush being a North American wild flower. |
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The personal motto ,
Sine Qua Non, is used because a coat of arms is the basis of
everything for any heraldic artist and without it there would be
nothing to do, so 'without which nought.' It is also a pun on his
previous life as a signwriter.
The arms are, without intention, also perfect as a symbol for the
armiger’s son, Alex. After they were designed he gained a degree in
the Built Environment and has gone on to a successful career in the
construction industry, so it could be said that the portcullis on
the shield has been raised to allow him access to the field of
millrinds, the millrind being the closest heraldic charge to the
wall tie of a bricklayer, the most fundamental job in any
construction, and without which, nought. Despite this he prefers to
use Semper Porro (ever onward) for his own motto.
Crest painted by
Anthony Wood |
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