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Badge:
(as
feudal baron
of Urquhart):
A seahorse
Argent crined
and unguled Or
langued Gules
garlanded with
ragged robin
(lychnis
flos-cuculi)
Proper.
Standard: The Badge is depicted in the
first and third
compartments and
the said Crest
in the centre
compartment upon
a Standard three
and a half
metres in length
of four tracts
Or and Azure,
split at the
end, having
Azure a St
Andrew's cross
Argent in the
hoist, with the
Motto "PER ACTUM
INTENTIO" in
letters Gules
upon two
transverse bands
Argent.
Grant: Court
of the Lord
Lyon, 126th page
of the 86th
Volume of the
Public Register
of All Arms and
Bearings in
Scotland.
Arms
painted by Neil
Bromley.
The
petition was
submitted on the
28th September
2004, amended on
the 23rd October
2007. The final
grant was dated
14th December
2007 and signed
by Robin O
Blair, Lord Lyon
King of Arms.
The basic
achievement is
similar to that
of the Baron of
Urquhart's 16th
century Orkney
ancestral
Cromartie arms.
Since it is also
similar to that
of the Chief of
Clan Urquhart,
whereas his
three boars'
heads have blue
tongues and
silver tusks,
the Baron of
Urquhart chose
to have the
boars' heads
depicted all
red, in the more
ancient
tradition. Since
the armiger has
no known blood
relationship to
the Chief, and
is thus an indeterminate
Urquhart cadet,
he introduced
the Chevron, its
choice being
influenced by
the original
Cromarties
having possessed
the motte on
which the
ancient
Cromartie Castle
was built in the
ancestral
Urquhart lands.
As
an armorial
featuring a
Chevron between
three boars'
heads might
suggest an
Elphinstone
connection, so
the three
pierced mullets
were added.
Three mullets
also hint at the
arms of the
early Douglas
family that
ruled Moray and
thus the lands
that later
formed the
Barony of
Urquhart, so
these were
pierced to make
the spur rowels
that allude to
the armiger’s
own history as
an equestrian
sportsman.
The
Crest of a
horse's head
again symbolizes
the armiger’s
life-long career
as a
thoroughbred
horse breeder
and racing
enthusiast. The
Crescent worn on
a chain around
the horse's neck
honours
Alexander Seton,
first Baron of
Urquhart.
By
Certificate
recorded in the
land Register of
Scotland of date
17 April 2007
the Petitioner
is infelt in the
lands of
Urquhart-on-Spey.
The
chapeau, mantle,
Badge and
Standard are
destined to the
Petitioner and
his heir in the
said barony of
Urquhart.
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