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John
Michael Berry,
FCollT, FRSA. |
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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 10th Oct. 2016.
Registration No. 0401
(Vol.3).
Arms: Or
a cross moline between
four roundels Azure a
chief Ermine all within
a bordure gyronny of
sixteen Sable and Gules.
Crest:
A raven Sable
beaked and legged Gules
in the beak a roundel
Azure around the neck a
lanyard of chain Or
leading and attaching
itself to a cross moline
Azure supported by the
dexter claws.
Motto:
Prorsus Sursumque
[Onwards and Upwards]
Badge: A
cross moline between
four roundels Azure the
former surmounted by a
bee Volant Or.
Grant:
College of Arms, 8 April
2014; agent: Robert
Noel, Lancaster Herald.
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The
cross moline and the
four hurts allude to the
armiger’s Berry and
Molyneux Lancashire
forebears, while the
Azure and Or are the
colours of St Bede’s
College, Manchester
where he was educated,
and taught for a third
of a century. The
Bordure alludes to
Ampleforth Abbey of
which he is an oblate —
black for Benedictines
and red for the
community’s canonised
martyr, St Alban Roe.
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The
chief, required for
difference, is in part a
tribute to Robert Noel,
Lancaster Herald, whose
expertise, enthusiasm,
wit and humour, made the
process leading to the
grant such a pleasure.
The raven on the crest
is the principle of life
in Inuit culture, while
in Western culture it is
an emblem of St
Benedict, patron saint
of Europe.
The inclusion of the bee
in the badge recalls St
Bede’s College shield,
the crest of the City of
Manchester, where Mr
Berry worked, charges on
the shield of the City
of Salford where he
lives, and aspects of
the heraldic emblem of
the Diocese of Salford.
It also cantingly
invokes the initial of
his surname.
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