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Richard B.B. Miller, Baron of
Jedburgh Forest |
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Registered: The International
Register of Arms, 5th March 2009. Registration No. 0177. (Lordship & Barony Register)
Arms: Gules on a chevron argent between three
double-headed eagles displayed Or three wolves' heads erased Vert
Crest: A tree trunk rising
from a mound scattered with petals and putting forth a leaved branch,
suspended therefrom by a line Or a cornucopia Gules replenished
proper.
Motto: Spei Bonae Atque Animi (Of Good Hope
and Courage)
Grant: College of Arms
Grant to Richard Bruce Bernadotte MILLER of Cape Town, South Africa.
Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster Kings of Arms. 23/12/2005.
Folio 171/205. |
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On the shield, the
wolves' heads represent the Anglo-Scottish family of Miller. The
double-headed eagles represent the armiger's descent in the maternal
line from the continental families of d'Alvarez de Asturias, Borcherds
and Wiber. The tree trunk in the crest indicates descent from the
Borcherds family.
The cornucopia in the crest alludes to the grantee's marriage to Mary
Magdalene Bernadotte Miller, Baroness of Jedburgh Forest; in art the
Magdalene is often represented pouring ointment from a horn. It is
imagined that some of the petals that lie on the ground have fallen
from the horn of plenty, whereof the three colours (white pink and
blue) are significant to the three children of the family
The baron's ancestors were originally from the Midlothian area near
Edinburgh and later settled in the Scottish Borders, near Jedburgh.
The baron's great-grandfather was James Wilkie Morris of Kelso. James'
daughter, Eleanore Waugh Morris (then aged 18) married the baron's
grandfather, William Bernadotte Miller (aged 42) in Margate, Kent.
William took his new bride to the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa,
where the Millers had settled in 1824. The baron's father was George
Bruce Bernadotte Miller, JP, a WWI survivor of the Battle of Dellville
Wood. His mother was Sonia Diana d'Alvarez de Asturias Borcherds Wiber. |
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