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автор Edward Tennyson Reed

'Mr. Punch's' Book of Arms.

"M^R. PUNCH'S"

BOOK
OF
ARMS

DRAWN & WRITTEN BY

E T REED

LONDON
BRADBURY, AGNEW & C^o.

Tonbridge
Printed by Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Ld.
MDCCCXCIX.

Contents.

First Baron Russell of Killowen

i

The Right Hon. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, P.C. M.P.

iij

Joseph, first Earl of Birmingham

vj

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, G.C.B. M.P.

viij

Horatio Herbert, first Viscount Kitchener of Omdurman

xj

M. le President, Felix Faure

xiij

Lord Kipling of Mandalay

xvj

The Earl of Barnato

xviij

Viscount Stanley of the Congo

xx

Oom Paul, first Earl of Krugersdorp

xxij

Viscount Gatti of the Strand

xxiv

The London County Council

xxvj

The Marquis of Hooley

xxviij

Mr. Justice Darling of Deptford

xxx

The Duke of Rhodes

xxxij

Hall Caine, first Lord Manxman

xxxiv

Baron Maple of Tottenham Court

xxxvj

Louis, first Baron Island de Rougemont

xxxviij

'Appy 'Ampstead

xl

Lord Leno

xlij

Prince Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Duke of Sussex

xliv

Marie, Countess Corelli

xlvj

Baron Lecky of Dublin

xlviij

Viscount Labouchere of Twickenham

l

George Nathaniel, first Earl Curzon of the Pamirs 'specially granted'

lij

Thomas, Viscount Bowles of the Bosphorus

liv

Baron Bartlett of Sheffield

lvj

Henry, first Baron Hawkins of Tryham Fairleigh and Sentensham

lviij

Mr. Punch

lxj

First Baron Russell of Killowen.

Arms / quarterly / i emergent paly from a legal orle of reception, a civic beak newly chained or, robed and garnished proper with bullion, slightly debruised with thunderbolts issuant from a chief justifiably rampant in invective robed and wigged proper with sleeves turned up ermine gorged with a choler of justice / ij at a bend of the field on a turf vert under the heraldic rose a sporting veteran wary to the last putting a bit proper on a likely mount turning up trumpy on the post / iij several salted guinea-pigs debrettees richly gilt and voided of scruple charged with marketable coronets bartered in lure / iiij on a ground of promotion a partisan of renown semee with shamrocks and shillelaghs and wreathed with laurels elevated and erased all proper. Crest / rising from a bar barry a tower of strength armed at all points and charged with a snuff-box of resort furtively employed for solace. Supporters / dexter, a female figure of justice scaly on the pounce reguardant sundry bubbles of finance issuant in fraud / sinister, an Irish disunicorn, brogued proper, chronically rampant in quest of autonomy.

The Right Hon. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, P.C. M.P.

Arms / quarterly / i on a ship party-coloured, shattered, dismasted and waterlogged, a crew prone to mutiny reguardant in complacence over the side a tried and weather-beaten chief avoirdupois proper, incontinently jettisoned without scruple or remorse / ij on a ground of grievance two tents of Achilles, freely canvassed in the press, conjoined morly in tension and possibly somewhat overstrained / iij a masterly heraldic bouget of finance, charged with a fleece of gold lifted proper from sundry millionaires gorged or, collared in transit on the hop / iiij on a ground protestant kensittee a veteran campaigner statant single-handed "on his helmet the motto 'Ut veniant omnes!'—'Let 'em all come!'" bearing a plume mordant guttee de l'encre transfixing several anglican traitors foxy to the last but exposed proper in mummery. Crest / emergent from a crown of the Plantagenets, a rogue-elephant of the forest jumbonee, thwarted circumvented and finally ousted with alacrity. +Motto / 'Contra dexter et audax'—'Skilful and bold in opposition.'+ Supporters +'otherwise engaged!—mainly in accepting resignations by return of post—but in place thereof possibly the following will answer the purpose'+ / dexter, an eminent litterateur similarly isolated and unique in courtesy, and gratitude, charged with a colossal biography proper / sinister, an heraldic sun luluois radiant in geniality, exemplarily staunch and filial to the core. Second Motto +Welsh translation+ / 'Lyddthe ryfraf, dydd yu effyr, nod yff y nowydd!'

Joseph, first Earl of Birmingham.

Arms / quarterly / i an antique Boer in his glory regarding a lion spotted over a bordure 'chartered' componee, partly white-washed / ij an heraldic bartlet cuffed and erased under a chapeau doubled up carmine / iij an Irish shamrock, barred in perpetuity on a ground orange of prejudice / iiij a mysterious libel voluntarily erased sable, rendered more or less illegible after the manner of the new journalism / over all, on an escutcheon of pretence, several ministerial billets of the best, clawed and collared in advance. Crest / a lion of debate langued mordant, bearing in dexter paw the union flag flowing to the sinister, dropping in his progress a Phrygian or republican cap of liberty 'turned up' and refaced ermine. Supporters / two highly crusted pillars of the constitution +sang-+azure in a demi-furious state of suppression.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, G.C.B. M.P.

Arms / quarterly / i on a sea of turbulence vert a jovial commodore, braided and epauletted proper in bullion, and wearing the insignia of the grand cross of the bath, mounting nimbly the bridge of a fighting-ship, drifting derelict and awash, barnacled, scuttled, riddled, and gutted / ij under a chief radiant in suavity, several heraldic partibores urgent, armed with queistions perennially brandished out of season, diplomatically exorcised, muzzled, and suppressed / iij on a ground semee of thistles, an elder of the auld licht lichtsome, kaily canny pawky silvendy to the fu', bearing an heraldic weebit cruizey or Scottish lantern, findin' salvation in the langsyne proper / iiij a rugged elephant of the New Forest on the war-path, sturdy in protestantism, and fully versed in the rubric, insulated by instincts antijingonee, turned up passee by the rest. Crest / a Scottish knight-in-armour, reluctant in temperament, but cedant under stress of suasion, haled, elected and ensconced proper in a cul-de-sac, conjoined Kimberley in opposition, portly for the nonce, but will probably gobony in harness. +Motto / 'Locus dulcis!'—'Cheerful post, eh!.'+ Supporters / dexter, a typical antique radical of retrenchment, straitened in view +kindly lent by the British Museum+, arrayed gudee gudee exeterallois to the last reguardant paly in dismay the trend gory of the times / sinister, a modern liberal of imperialism fashodee, statant sanguine on a stricken field, acquiescent in annexation, charged with a shamrock of home-rule slipped vert and demi-erased. Second Motto / 'Cordate si non cordite!'—'Wisely if without high explosives!'

Horatio Herbert, first Viscount Kitchener of Omdurman.

Arms / quarterly / i a series of cataracts neatly and punctually surmounted while you wait / ij a Gallic cock marchant in chicane and emergent theatrical in advance collared in trespass and +we trust+ given the chucque proper / iij a British lion radiant in his glory sheathing an avenging sword rusted with age but trenchant to the full / iiij several stars of journalism rampant and purpure with fury incontinently ordered to Cairo. Crest / on a mount urgent with the hump a caliph proper of the Soudan imbrued gory to the last, dropping in his flight on a ground sable sundry spouses reluctant puffy without mules. Supporters / dexter, an Egyptian soldier drilled armed and furnished with a backbone made in England, crowned with laurels and bearing in his right hand the black banner of the Khalifa / sinister, a British trooper in triumph similarly charged and wreathed with laurels in augmentation, holding in his left hand a lance and in the right a return ticket proper to Khartoum available for a month. Second Motto / 'Dwell as if about to depart'—ahem! proper.

M. le President, Felix Faure.

Arms / quarterly / i on a ground virulent two crosses of the legion of honour couped by a presidential hand sinister from the breast of two dreyfusards of repute, steadfast in rectitude / ij under the shield of the chief of the state tainted with bias, several dapper heraldic scoundrelles of the staff, plumed proper, braided gold to the waist, all banded together and rampant in tort / iij a series of highly-strung journalistic lyres in parry on the garble proper falsette in unison / iiij on a rock of degradation, interned in exile, a military scapegoat charged with treason, loaded with chains of evidence designed forged and welded in fraud, on the horizon, the first rays of a dawn of hope breaking through clouds of fury. Crests / i on a cap of liberty query, stained spotted and ensanguined gules, a peacock in pride proper, his head slightly turned, charged with the riband and star of the order of St. Andrew and a penchant for display verging on puerility / ii on a bend of the upper Nile a tricolourd African interlope of civilisation, dumped down squatty on the bank, collared eradicated and reflexed in agony. Supporters / dexter, a Russian bear sable, imperially crowned and gorged with loans hysterically courted and caressed ad nauseam, simpery bowy bendy to the last, but reluctant in committal / sinister, a double-faced eagle of Muscovy reguardant azure in dismay a kettle of fish a la parisienne. Second Motto / 'Felix fortunatus caesaris sociusque amicus.'

Additional Motto / 'Felix ill-egalite.'

Lord Kipling of Mandalay.

Arms / quarterly / i a review laudatory richly deserved quite proper / ij an heraldic jungle-bok rampant under several deodars or mem-sahibs or words to that effect / iij a lordly elephint a pilin' teak / iiij an argot-nautical vessel +in verse+ in full sale, classed A1 at Lloyds, charged with a cargo of technicalities all warranted genuine. Crest / on a charger argent the head of a publisher urgent. Supporters / dexter, a tommy atkins in all his glory, arrayed proper by a plain tailor from the hills / sinister, a first-class fighting man or fuzzy wuzzy of the Soudan, regardant sable on a British square charged with an elan effrontee.

The Earl of Barnato.

Arms / quarterly / i +of the month+ a regal cheque in advance proper / ij fretty but checky / iij a Boer rampant and bristled / iiij grand quarters +in Park Lane+, behind heraldic scaffolding a castle garnished all proper. Crest / South African lion rampant ducally gorged or. Supporters / dexter, a bull / sinister, a bear, both proper, plain collared +celluloid+ and chained or.