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Grant: The
Office of the
Chief Herald
of Arms of
Malta in the
first Volume
bearing
Archive Number
R0026/2022.
Illustrations
by Dr. Antonio
Salmeron
Cabanas, SHA,
of Madrid,
Spain.
The
armiger lives
and teaches
music in North
Yorkshire and is
a Licentiate of
the London
College of
Music.
The sackbut
reflects his
principal
instrument, the
tenor trombone.
The thistle is
symbolic of the
armiger’s Gaelic
&
Scandinavian
roots. Both his
grandfather
George and great
grandfather Hugh
are from
Greenock,
Scotland and
served in the
army during the
first and second
world wars. One
pair of his
great, great
grandparents,
Elias a mariner
and his wife
Matilde, were
originally from
Sweden and
Norway
respectively but
moved to Hull,
England in the
1850’s.
Curiously the
armiger’s South
African
connection is
supplied by his
great, great
grandfather
Charles Samuel
Hawkins of
Middlesbrough
who served as a
career soldier
for Queen
Victoria and
King Edward in
South Africa
during the Boer
War and received
the QSA &
KSA campaign
medals.
The
Crest, the male
Bluethroat has a
varied and
imitative song;
a pun on the
armiger’s
profession.
The
Motto, Less is
More, reflects
the armiger’s
interest in
minimalism.
The
armiger had the
great pleasure
of visiting the
Offices of the
Chief Herald of
Arms of Malta,
at Fort St Elmo,
Valletta, Malta,
to be presented
with his Maltese
Grant of Arms.
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