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The
Letters Patent recite
the Grantee's ancestry
in the male line through
his grandfather and
great-grandfather, each
Andrew Guthrie
Sutherland, to his
great-great-great-grandfather,
George Sutherland
(1789-1867), a farmer,
of Burray, Orkney, for
and in memory of whom a
Grant, without of course
the cadet marks of the
Matriculation (a bordure
etc.), was made on even
date. The marks refer to
the Grantee's being his
armigerous ancestor's
first son's, third son's
(white bordure), fourth
son's (indented edge),
second son's (crescent),
only son.
The design of the arms
follows the pattern for
those of the Earldom of
Sutherland (Gules, three
mullets Or),
distinguished by the
inclusion of a battleaxe
in chief which, with the
distinctive crest,
alludes to the Orcadian
connection of several
generations of this
line. The motto is in
response to that, Sans
Peur, of the clan chief.
The achievements on the
Letters Patent show the
Grant in the left margin
and the Matriculation in
the right. Along the
base of the document is
an illuminated border
combining the Scottish
thistle with the
Sutherland badge plant,
the cotton-sedge.
The Achievement
illustrated here is that
of the shield granted by
Lyon Court with the
addition of a Maltese
cross Argent (indicating
a Knight of Justice in
the Sovereign Military
Order of Malta). The
arms are interlaced with
a rosary (denoting the
profession of solemn,
i.e: perpetual, vows),
depending from which is
another Maltese cross
Argent. Knights of
Justice in the Order of
Malta use neither crest
nor motto.
The
rendering of the arms
shown here are by David
Waterton-Anderson.
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