David A. Spencer - Achievements: Grant of Arms

Achievements

Grant of Arms (Armorial Bearings)

London, Great Britain

Title:
Gentleman of Coat Armour

Gent. (Gentleman)
Armig. (Armoric/Armiger - One who bears arms by lawful authority)
Esq. (Esquire - All gentlemen of coat armour, or armigerous men, are entitled to use the term following their names)

Accorded the title in right of officially recorded armorial bearings

Grant of Arms:
A Grant of Arms (Armorial Bearings) was granted by Letters Patent (i.e., by royal grant) under the hands and seal of the Garter King of Arms (delegated by Queen Elizabeth II) on 7th November, 2000 by the College of Arms (London, UK)

Memorial (or petition) by W. G. Hunt, Windsor Herald of Arms (College of Arms), sent to M.F. Stapleton, the Earl Marshal of England (Duke of Norfolk) on 29th December, 1999
Memorial approved by the M.F. Stapleton, Earl Marshal of England (Duke of Norfolk) in January, 2000
Warant issued by the M.F. Stapleton, Earl Marshal of England (Duke of Norfolk) to P.L. Gwynn-Jones, Garter King of Arms (College of Arms) to proceed with the grant on 29 March, 2000
Grant of Arms, Crest, Standard, Badge and Blazon drawn up by W.G. Hunt, Windsor Herald of Arms and approved by P.L. Gwynn-Jones, Garter King of Arms (College of Arms) in June, 2000
Armorial Bearings was granted by Letters Patent under the hands and seal of P.L. Gwynn-Jones, Garter King of Arms and D.H.B. Chesshyre, Clarenceux King of Arms (delegated by Queen Elizabeth II) on 7th November, 2000

Achievement:
The Full Achievement of the Grant of Arms to David A. Spencer consists of:

Shield

Arms
Helm and Crest
Motto
Mantling

Badge
Banner/Standard

Arms:

Gules a Chevron Or between three Ice-axes and Hammers in saltire Argent and conjoined to a Bordure Or

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Helm & Crest:
Upon a Helm with a Wreath Or and Gules A demi-Ass Gules the dexter foreleg enfiling an Annulet pendent therefrom two Bells Or

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Motto:
SUAE SORTIS AUCTOR

Mantling:
Gules lined Or

Badge:
An Ice-axe Argent the shaft enfiling an Annulet Gules pendent therefrom three Bells Or each charged with a Mullet the dexter Azure the centre Gules the sinister Vert.

Banner/Standard:
Consists of the Arms, Crest, Motto and Mantling

Translation:
"The charges in the Arms are a chevron to give the impression of a couple of Himalayan peaks, between the crossed ice-axe and hammer which appear in the logo of the Royal School of Mines at which Dr. Spencer studied; all are enclosed by a bordure to give the impression of a mine tunnel. The Crest is a demi ass, an attribute to St Anthony of Padua, his wife's birthplace, and Anthony being his middle name; it is holding bells, reflecting his cockney origin and his hobby of campanology. The Badge comprises an ice-axe for his favoured pass time, and three bells, for him, his wife and daughter, charged with mullets of different colours to allude to the red, white and green of the Italian flag, and the red, white and blue of the American, Norwegian and Union flags. The motto translates as "the maker of his own destiny".

Dr. Spencer is a structural/petroleum geologist based in Norway, who has published over 200 scientific papers. The subject of his doctorate was the Tectonics of the NW Himalaya, and of his masters degree: Structural geology and rock mechanics of the suture zone between the Indian Plate (Higher Himalaya) and the Kohistan Island Arc, which was structurally mapped for the first time. He is a cockney by birth, his wife Italian and their daughter American. He climbed to the south summit of Everest in 2000."

Grant of Armorial Bearings and Crest - College of Arms, London, UK (2000)

Letters Patent:
TO ALL AND SINGULAR to whom these Presents shall come Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones Esquire Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Garter Principal King of Arms and David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre Esquire Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order Clarenceux King of Arms Send Greeting! Wheras DAVID ANTHONY SPENCER of East Arbour Street in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Gentleman Bachelor of Science of the University of Exeter Master of Science of the University of London Doctor of Natural Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology hath represented unto the Most Noble Miles Francis Stapleton Duke of Norfolk Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire upon who has been conferred the Decoration of the Military Cross Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England that he is desirous of having Armorial Ensigns established under lawful authority and duly recorded in Her Majesty's College of Arms and hath requested therefore the favour of His Grace's Warrant for Our granting and assigning such Arms and Crest and in the same Patent such Device or Badge as We deem suitable to be borne and used by him and by his descendants for ever hereafter with due and proper differences and according to the Laws of Arms And forasmuch as the said Earl Marshal did by Warrant under his hand and Seal bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of March, 2000 authorise and direct Us to grant and assign such Arms and Crest and in the same Patent such Device or Badge accordingly Know Ye therefore that We the said Garter and Clarenceux in pursuance of His Grace's Warrant and by virtue of the Letters Patent of Our several Offices granted by The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty to each of Us respectively do these Presents grant and assign unto the said DAVID ANTHONY SPENCER the Arms following that is to say:- Gules a Chevron Or between three Ice-axes and Hammers in saltire Argent and conjoined to a Bordure Or And for the Crest Upon a Helm with a Wreath Or and Gules A demi-Ass Gules the dexter foreleg enfiling an Annulet pendent therefrom two Bells Or Mantled Gules lined Or as are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted And by the Authority aforesaid We do further grant and assign the following Device or Badge that is to say:- An Ice-axe Argent the shaft enfiling an Annulet Gules pendent therefrom three Bells Or each charged with a Mullet the dexter Azure the centre Gules the sinister Vert as herein depicted the whole to be borne and used forever hereafter by the said David Anthony Spencer and by his descendants with due and proper differences and according to the Laws of Arms In witness whereof We the said Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms have to these Presents subscribed Our names and affixed the Seals of Our several offices this Seventh day of November in the Fortyninth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith and in the year of Our Lord Two thousand.

P.L. Gwynn-Jones
Garter

Hubert Chesshyre
Clarenceux

Shields on the Letters Patent:

The Sovereign, HM Queen Elizabeth II

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gules three lions passant guardant in pale or; 2nd, or a lion rampart within a double tressure flory counterflory gules; 3rd, azure a harp or stringed argent, the whole enriched with the Garter.

Duke of Norfolk

Quarterly, 1st, gules a bend between six cross crosslets fitchée argent and on the bend an eschutcheon or charged with a demi-lion rampant, pierced through the mouth by an arrow, within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first; 2nd, gules three lions passant guardant in pale or, in chief a label of three points argent; 3rd, chequy or and azure; 4th gules a lion rampant or; behind the shield two gold batons in saltire, enamelled at the ends, sable.

College of Arms

Argent a cross gules between four doves the dexter wing of each expanded and inverted Azure

Garter King of Arms

Argent a cross gules and on a chief azure a crown enclosed in a Garter between a lion passant guardant and a fleur de lis, all or

Clarenceux King of Arms

Argent a cross gules and on a chief also gules a lion passant guardant crowned with an open crown or

Norroy and Ulster King of Arms

Quarterly argent and or a cross gules, on a chief per pale azure and gules a lion passant guardant or crowned with an open crown between a fleur de lis and a harp or

Badge on the Letters Patent:

Windsor Herald

Edward III's (Edward of Windsor) sun burst, that is golden sun rays shooting upwards from a bank of white cloud, royally crowned

Signatures and Seals on the Letters Patent:
Garter King of Arms
Clarenceux King of Arms