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Sir Algar Howard
Howard reading the 1936 accession proclamation
In office Monarch George VI Preceded by Sir Gerald Wollaston Succeeded by George Bellew
Born
Algar Henry Stafford Howard
(1880-08-07 ) 7 August 1880Died 14 February 1970(1970-02-14) (aged 89 ) Nationality British Spouse(s ) Lady Rachel Campbell Children 2 Parent
Sir Stafford Howard (father)
Education Harrow School Alma mater King's College London Occupation Herald
Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard KCB KCVO MC TD British Army officer and long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London . He served as the Garter Principal King of Arms from 1944 to 1950 before retiring. He was the third consecutive Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary to attain the highest rank at the College of Arms.
Early life and family [ edit ]
Algar Henry Stafford Howard was born on 7 August 1880. He was the eldest son of Sir Edward Stafford Howard , KCB, JP, DL (1851–1916), of Thornbury Castle and Cilymeanllwyd in Carmarthenshire , and his first wife, Lady Rachel Campbell (died 1906), youngest daughter of John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor .[1] Sir Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson , 1st and last Baron Knaresborough , on 11 October 1921. She was the widow of Captain Alexander Moore Vandeleur, 2nd Life Guards, who was killed in action at Zandvoorde during the First Battle of Ypres on 30 October 1914.[2]
The couple had two daughters: Anne Violet (born 1923), who married John Cahill, son of John Cahill, of Knockrom West in Scartaglen ; and Elizabeth Helen (born 1924), who married Harold William Norman Suckling Walker, eldest son of Colonel James Coulthard Walker of the Indian Army .[1]
Military career [ edit ]
Howard was appointed a Second lieutenant of the Carmarthen Militia Artillery on 31 January 1900,[3] Lieutenant on 6 September 1900. In the First World War Howard served with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars . He won the Military Cross and attained the rank of Major .[citation needed
Heraldic career [ edit ]
Howard was educated at Harrow School and King's College London . Howard began his heraldic career on 23 May 1911 with an appointment as Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary for the coronation of King George V .[4] Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary .[5]
In 1919, Howard was promoted to the office of Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary and he held this position until 1931.[6] Norroy King of Arms when Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston was promoted. Howard was also appointed Registrar of the College of Arms in 1928, and during the Second World War the records of the college were stored at his home of Thornbury Castle in Gloucestershire for safekeeping.
In 1943, the office of Ulster King of Arms was merged with that of Norroy and Howard became the first Norroy and Ulster King of Arms . He remained in this office until 1944 when he was promoted to Garter Principal King of Arms .[7]
Howard was created Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1935, Companion of the Bath (CB ) in 1937, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1944, and Knight Commander of the Bath (KCB) in 1951.[citation needed
Coat of arms of Algar Howard, Garter king of arms (1944-1950)
Coronet
King of Arms
Crest
On a chapeau gules turned up ermine a lion statant gardant, tail extended.
Escutcheon
His arms of office, impaling Howard arms, viz. Gules, on a bend between 6 crosses crosslet fitchy argent a scocheon or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth with an arrow in a royal tressure gules. .[8]
Motto
Sola Virtus Invicta ("Virtue alone is invincible")
Orders
the circlet of the Royal Victorian Order and Order of the Bath. Collar of Esses.
Badge
A slip of oak vert fructed or charged on the stem with a crescent sable (granted 1913).
Symbolism
Arms derived from the House of Howard and the Dukes of Norfolk .
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ a b Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 2007, vol. 2, p. 2909
^ Burke's Irish Family Records
^ "No. 27159" . The London Gazette
^ "No. 28504" . The London Gazette
^ "No. 28545" . The London Gazette
^ "No. 31598" . The London Gazette
^ "No. 36552" . The London Gazette
^ "arms as Norroy King of arms in 1934" .
Appointment to Norroy, The Times , 7 February 1931
Obituary, The Times , 16 February 1970
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