British baronet and retired officer of arms
Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld wearing his ceremonial tabard during an annual Garter Service at St George's Windsor
Sir Henry Edgar Paston-Bedingfeld, 10th Baronet (born 7 December 1943) is a British baronet and retired officer of arms .
Family and career
Paston-Bedingfeld is the only son of Sir Edmund Paston-Bedingfeld , 9th Baronet of Oxburgh Hall , Norfolk, by his wife Joan Lynette Rees. He succeeded to the family title upon his father's death on 24 May 2011.[ 1] He was educated at Ampleforth College , then an all-boys Catholic private school in Ampleforth , Yorkshire.
Paston-Bedingfeld served as Rouge Croix Pursuivant from 1983,[ 2] and then in 1993 became York Herald .[ 3] In 2010 he was promoted to Norroy and Ulster King of Arms , the junior of the two provincial Kings-at-Arms , with jurisdiction over the north of England and Northern Ireland .[ 4]
In July 2014, he retired and was succeeded by Timothy Duke .[ 5]
He is an Honorary Vice-president of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society and of the Norfolk Record Society;[ 6] Sir Henry is also a liveryman of the Bowyers' Company and served as Master of the Scriveners' Company for 2012–13.
In 1968, Paston-Bedingfield married Mary Kathleen, a daughter of Brigadier Robert Ambrose CIE OBE MC , and they have two sons and two daughters; their elder son, Richard (born 1975) is heir apparent to the baronetcy .[ 1]
Selected heraldic designs by Paston-Bedingfeld
Honours
Arms
Coat of arms of Henry Paston-Bedingfeld
Crest
1. An Eagle displayed Or (Bedingfeld ), 2. A Griffin sejant wings elevated Or gorged with a Collar Gules therefrom a Line held in the beak and terminating in a Ring of the Last (Paston )
Helm
That of a Knight
Escutcheon
Quarterly , 1st & 4th Ermine an Eagle displayed Gules (Bedingfeld ), 2nd & 3rd Argent six Fleurs-de-lys three two and one Azure a Chief indented Or (Paston )
Motto
1. Despicio terrena, Solem contemplor ("I despise earthly things, I gaze upon the Sun"), 2. De mieulx je pense en mieulx ("I think of better and better things")
Orders
A baronet's badge suspended beneath the arms
Symbolism
A Baronet's badge :
Previous versions
Sir Henry impaled his company 's arms with those of his family during his year of office as Master Scrivener [ 10]
See also
References
^ a b Burke's Peerage , volume 3, 2003, page 3067
^ "No. 49291" . The London Gazette . 17 March 1983. p. 3737.
^ "No. 53435" . The London Gazette . 23 September 1993. p. 15437.
^ "College of Arms, What's New – Norroy and Ulster King of Arms" . Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2010 .
^ "New Norroy and Ulster King of Arms" , College of Arms , 3 July 2014, accessed 24 September 2023.
^ "www.norfolkrecordsociety.org.uk" . Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2015 .
^ Heraldry Gazette NS 67 (March 1998), 6.
^ The Heraldry Gazette NS 64 (June 1997), 6.
^ Heraldry Gazette NS 67 (March 1998), 7.
^ Scriveners' Company arms Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine
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