Admiral Lord Nelson's grant of arms

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Hi all,

Here is a neat picture of Nelson's grant of arms ca. 1798 with a nice view of his augmentation for the Battle of the Nile:

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-Sebastian Nelson

[The Chief]

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Hi all,
http://www.lloyds.com/~/media/Images/Lloyds/About%20Lloyds/History/Nelson/GrantofArmstoNelson.jpg
-Sebastian Nelson

What ghastly arms! Isn't there a name for that awful period at the Herald's college?

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The Chief

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Yes. It's called the 'early nineteenth century'.

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Yes. It's called the 'early nineteenth century'.

Ha ha. It was a serious question. It is generally agreed that the COA had a spot of bother for while in terms of the artistic/heraldic quality of its grants. How is that period identified? By the names of the Garter(s), or...?

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The Chief

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The Heard period, after Sir Isaac Heard, responsible for devising (and bearing) many of the landscape monstrosities of that period.