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Further Private Registration:
The American College of Heraldry on 6 November 1992
under Number 1073. Arms were Registered by the St. Andrew Principal
Herald Master of the Collegium Heraldicum Russiae under Number 167.
Blazon: En
campo de azur (azul), una celosía ecotada, de oro. Va timbrado el
escudo de armas de un casco de acero bruñido, con bordura y grilletas
de oro, claveteado de lo mismo, forrado de gules (rojo), sumado de un
burelete trenzado de azur (azul) y oro del que salen lambrequines de
los mismos esmaltes y sumado a su vez de una cabeza de satiro,
sanguino, barbado al natural, orejado con alas de murciélago, de azur
(azul) y sumado de una corona de hojas de olivo, de sinople (verde).
Divisa: En cinta de plata con letras de sable (negro): "MELIOR NULLO
NULLUS MELIOR.
The Arms were
designed by the Armiger, who worked with the late President of The
American College of Heraldry, Dr. David Pittman Johnson, to register
same with that entity. The Armiger currently serves as that
organization's Executive Director.
The rendering
shown here was originally depicted (in black and white) by Marco
Foppoli, and then digitally colorized and embellished by the Armiger.
David Robert Wooten is a member of: South Carolina Irish Historical
Society; The Scottish-American Military Society [SAMS]; Orders &
Medals Research Society; Sons of Confederate Veterans; Military Order
of the Stars & Bars; Richard III Society; The Society of Heraldic
Arts; The White Lion Society; The Heraldry Societies of the UK,
Australia, Scotland, Zimbabwe, Southern Africa; The Heraldry Society
of the USA; The Armiger Society (US); Fellow of The Royal Society for
the encouragement of Arts, Manufacture & Commerce (Royal Society of
Arts) [FRSA]; Fellow of the Royal Society for Antiquaries of Ireland [FRSAI];
Fellow of the Society for Antiquaries (Scotland) [FSA (Scot)]; The
Bookplate Society. He is author of "We All Become Forefathers:
Genealogies of the Wooten, Boykin, Whitaker and Broadhurst Families" [Higginson
Books, Salem, MA, 1993]; as well as Specialist Editor (Heraldry), "The
New Oxford Dictionary of American English" [Oxford University Press,
2001]. |
