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The
armiger bears the arms
granted to his father
William Owen Hassall of
the Manor House in the
Parish of Wheatley in
the County of
Oxfordshire, esquire.
William Owen Hassall was
Doctor of Philosophy of
the University of
Oxford, Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries
of London, Freeman of
the City of Chester,
Librarian to the Earl of
Leicester at Holkham and
senior Assistant
Librarian of the
Bodleian Library. The
grantee was born at
York, 4 August 1912 and
died at Wheatley 19 July
1994. He married 4 July
1936 Averil Grafton
Beaves, by whom he had
three sons, Tim, Mark
and Tom and a daughter
Cory. The youngest son,
the armiger's brother
Tom Hassall, was born 3
December 1943. He
married Angela Goldsmith
on 2nd September 1967
and had three sons,
Oliver, born 28 November
1968, Nicholas born 30
April 1970 and Edward
born 10 July 1972'.
Tim, the eldest son,
born 11 October 1938 and
married Ines Roth 2
September 1966 by whom
he had two daughters,
Bettina, born 29 July
1967 and Florence born
21 September 1968. He
died in 1993.
The second son Mark, the
Armiger, was born in 13
June 1940. He married
Catherine Mary
Ward-Perkins 16
September 1972, and had
two sons, Ralph William
John Hassall, born 30th
September 1978 and John
Cory Hassall born 17
February 1981. John
Hassall married Line
Thomsen 23 August 2008
and has one son Viktor
James born 27 September
2009. Cory Frances
Hassall was born 14 May
1942. She married Rodney
Lyons in 1963 and has
two children, Alexander
born 21 April 1965 and
Laurie 15 August 1967.
The armiger traces his
descent from Ralph
Hassall 1713-1795,
yeoman farmer of the
parish of Tarvin,
Cheshire. Ralph Hassall
was the son of Richard
Hassall, victualler, of
Audlem, Cheshire.
The armiger is an
archaeologist and until
his retirement taught
courses on Roman
Archaeology at the
Institute of
Archaeology, London
University, now part of
University College
London. He has
participated in
excavations at many
sites in Britain and
countries bordering the
Mediterranean.
Though no direct male
line descent can be
traced from the
armigerous Hassalls,
lords of the manors of
Hassall in Sandbach
parish and Hankelow in
Audlem parish both in
the county of Cheshire ,
the armiger can trace a
direct descent to them
through the family of
his paternal
grandmother, the Corys,
and those of their
ancestors, the
Derbyshire Gells and
Beresfords, to the
Hassalls of Arclyd in
Sandbach, a cadet branch
of the Hassalls of
Hassall and Hankelow. In
view of this Garter and
Clarenceux permitted the
granting of arms whose
overall design reflects
that of the Hassalls of
Hassall and Hankelow,
per chevron, argent and
or, three pheons sable;
with identical crest
lacking the circlet of
pheons. The spur rowel
alludes to the mullets
in the arms of Gell
which are party per bend
azure and or, three
mullets of six points in
bend counterchanged
The heir to the arms is
Ralph William John
Hassall
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