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Supporters: Dexter: A griffin Gules, wings
elevated, armed, beaked and winged Or Sinister: A raven Sable proper.
Standard: 4 yards in length with
rounded unspoilt ends having the Arms of Sinclair (viz:- Argent, a
cross engrailed Sable) in the hoist and of 4 tracts, bendy-wavy Argent
and Gules, with the aforesaid badge depicted and displayed 3 times,
along with the cri-de-guerre, ’HRAFNS-MERKI(L)’ in letters Sable upon
2 transverse bands Or.
Badge: A raven displayed and volant
Sable.
Mottoes: Above Crest; 'Fortiter Et Sincere'
Bellow Shield; Med Logum Skal Land Byggja'
Registration: South African Bureau of
Heraldry, H4/3/4/682, 30th July 2004, Certificate Nos.3437-9 (as Baron
of Brough)
Further Private Registration: United
States Heraldic Registry, 15th February 2006, #20060215K
The armorial rendering
(but not standard and badge, which were done by Achievements Ltd.) was
originally depicted, both in colour and bookplate form by Max Marnau.
The arms are a revised
version of those of the Shetlander feudo-baronial Sinclair family of
Brough (1563/87-1714), of which the armiger (as Baron of Brough) is
the titular representer; while the supporters with the lower motto and
badge/standard (in the Norne dialect) allude to the family's Norse
Viking heritage as cadet descendants of the dynastic 'Prince'-Jarls
(EARLS) of Orkney (c.894-1470/1), commemorating the latter's part in
the historic Irish battle of Clontarf (Good Friday 1014).
The armiger's maternal line, the Jamaican-based mercantile/planter
cadet branch of the Laing family of
Pa(b/p)dale and Strynzi (a/e), Orkney are represented by the crest's
sparrowhawk. |
