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Supporters: Dexter: A griffin Gules, wings elevated, armed, beaked and winged Or Sinister:
A raven Sable proper.
Standard: 4
yards in length with rounded unspoilt ends having the Arms of Sinclair (viz:-
Argent, a cross engrailed Sable) in the hoist and of 4 tracts, bendy-wavy Argent
and Gules, with the aforesaid badge depicted and displayed 3 times, along with
the cri-de-guerre, ’HRAFNS-MERKI(L)’ in letters Sable upon 2 transverse bands
Or.
Badge: A raven
displayed and volant Sable.
Mottoes: Above
Crest; 'Fortiter Et Sincere'
Bellow Shield; Med Logum Skal Land Byggja'
Registration: South African Bureau of Heraldry, H4/3/4/682, 30th July
2004, Certificate Nos.3437-9 (as Baron of Brough)
Further
Private Registration: United States Heraldic Registry, 15th February 2006, #20060215K
The armorial rendering (but not
standard and badge, which were done by Achievements Ltd.) was originally
depicted, both in colour and bookplate form by Max Marnau.
The arms are a revised version of those of the Shetlander feudo-baronial Sinclair family of Brough
(1563/87-1714), of which the armiger (as Baron of Brough) is the titular representer; while the supporters with the lower motto and badge/standard
(in the Norne dialect) allude to the family's Norse Viking heritage as cadet descendants of the dynastic 'Prince'-Jarls (EARLS) of Orkney (c.894-1470/1), commemorating the latter's part in the historic Irish battle of Clontarf
(Good Friday 1014).
The armiger's maternal line, the Jamaican-based mercantile/planter cadet branch of the Laing family of
Pa(b/p)dale and Strynzi (a/e), Orkney are represented by the crest's sparrowhawk. |
