I'm Giving a Presentation on Heraldry to Genealogists, and You Can Attend
A little while ago, I was asked by the Georgia Genealogical Society if I would give my presentation An Introduction to Heraldry for Genealogists via webinar for them. I, of course, said I would be...
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A Tale of Three Thornhursts, Part One
In St. Michael's Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral, there are three large, ornate memorials to three members of the Thornhurst family.Going from left to right as you stand at the entrance to the Chapel, we...
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A Tale of Three Thornhursts, Part Two
Our next Thornhurst memorial in St. Michael's Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral, has the carved figures of both husband and wife, Sir Stephen Thornhurst, the fourth husband of Mary (Giffard) Baker Fletcher...
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A Tale of Three Thornhursts, Part Three
The third, and final, memorial to a Thornhurst in St. Michael's Chapel in Canterbury Cathedral is to a woman who married into the Thornhurst family.The Latin inscription below her effigy figure...
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A Memorial to an Admiral
Moving along in our review of some of the heraldic memorials and monuments in Canterbury Cathedral, we come to a comparatively modest memorial to Admiral of the Blue* Richard Edwards, Esq.The...
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Three Armorial Memorials Without Personal Heraldry
I've grouped these next three armorial memorials together because, while they have heraldry of a sort on them, none of them bear the personal arms of the person memorialized.First, we have the memorial...
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A (Comparatively) Simple Armorial Memorial
This next armorial memorial in Canterbury Cathedral is a comparatively simple one, and yet I can't help but think it holds every bit as much love and pathos as many of the larger, more complex...
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An Armorial Tomb
Now we come to an armorial tomb set along a wall in Canterbury Cathedral.As the sign next to it notes, this is:The Tomb ofWILLIAMGRANT BROUGHTONKing’s Scholar, CanterburyFIRST BISHOPandMETROPOLITAN of...
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A Somewhat Overstated Tomb in Canterbury Cathedral
After the somewhat understated tomb of William Grant Broughton, Bishop of Australia, which we reviewed in the last post, we come to the somewhat more florid tomb of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of...
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Heraldry near the Cathedral Gift Shop
Like a lot of other Major Tourist Attractions™, Canterbury Cathedral has a gift shop area where you can buy picture postcards, guidebooks in several languages, knickknacks and a wide array of other...
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An Armorial Memorial to a Prebendary
I learn a lot doing some of the research for these blog posts. In this instance, I realized that I really didn't know what the term "prebend" meant. So I looked it up.Come to find out, the definition...
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Once Again, "You Can Find Heraldry Everywhere!"
No, really!I've said it many times before, and I will probably say it many times in the future, because it's true. You can find heraldry everywhere, sometimes in the most unexpected places, and even...
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In Memory of a Young Captain
Moving along in Canterbury Cathedral from St. Michael's Chapel, we came to this memorial to a young man (only 30 years old) who died in Northern Nigeria in 1904.The text on the memorial reads:In Loving...
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A Memorial to a Hero
Our next armorial memorial is one to a General who as a young (age 26) lieutenant won the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Crimean War and other medals and honors (which are reproduced on his...
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Composers Get Armorial Memorials, Too!
Lest you think that it's just military men and former Archbishops who get all the armorial memorials in Canterbury Cathedral, we come now to one to an early 17th Century composer and organist. So...
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The Buffs, Again.
The next armorial memorial we came to in Canterbury Cathedral was one to the “Officer, N.C.Os and Privates of the 1stBattalion, the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) … killed in action or died of wounds and...
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A Memorial With a Coat of Arms, But Not His Arms
The next armorial memorial has a coat of arms on it, but atypically not the arms of the man it is memorializing.The memorial is to Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong between May 20, 1982 and his death...
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Boy, Oh, Boys!
In our review of some of the heraldic monuments and memorials in Canterbury Cathedral, we next come to this very impressive one of Sir John Boys, who died in 1612. (Not to be confused with Dean John...
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But What Happened to the Coat of Arms?
The next memorial on our tour is one to John Turner, S.T.P. vicar of Greenwich, who was installed in the twelfth Prebend in June 1717; he was a prebendary likewise of the church of Lincoln. He died in...
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Another Large Armorial Memorial in Canterbury Cathedral
The next stop on our heraldic tour of Canterbury Cathedral is the Hales Memorial.The descriptive sign on the wall next to the Memorial states:THE HALES MEMORIALThe inscription refers to JAMES...
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