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Registration: South African Bureau of Heraldry on 8 February 2002.
Certificates nos. 3299 (arms), 3300 (badge), 3301 (standard) dated 29 November
2002.
Further Private Registration: Collegium Heraldicum Russiae,
registered 19 February 2003 (arms). American College of Heraldry, registered 22
March 2003, no. 2315 (arms, badge and standard). Heraldische Gemeinschaft Westfalen,
registered 10 December 2004, no. DEV0204 (arms, supporters and compartment).
United States Heraldic Registry, registered 14 January 2006, no. 20060114G
(arms).
Further Certification:
Don Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y Gila, Marqués
de la Floresta, Crónista de Armas de Castilla y León, certified 13 May 2005
(arms, supporters, compartment, two badges and standard).
Rendition of arms, badge and
standard by Gordon Macpherson, Niagara Herald Extraordinary of the Canadian
Heraldic Authority.
The armiger was born in 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio (U.S.A.) to
a professional family of predominately Sino-Siamese (Thai) descent. The armiger graduated from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison (Bachelor of Science), Cornell University (Master of Regional
Planning) and Washington University in St. Louis (Juris Doctor). He is a
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (U.K.), and is licensed to
practice law in New York and before the U.S. Court of International Trade.
His other professional
memberships include: The New York Bar Association, American Bar Association
(International Law Section) and Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity.
Other memberships include: The American College of Heraldry, The Royal
Heraldry Society of Canada, Fellowship of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great
Britain and Ireland and The Siam Society Under Royal Patronage.
The armiger’s wife is also a lawyer.
Together, they are the parents of three young children. The armiger has enjoyed heraldry and vexillology
since his teens, and in 2001 decided to register his arms, badge and standard
with a recognized heraldic authority to start a colourful family tradition. The
basis for their design rests in various aspects of the armiger’s background.
The lion, pronounced “singh” or
“sinha” in Thai, is canting for the armiger’s surname. The lion as the king of beasts
also alludes to the armiger’s undergraduate studies in zoology, and his
profession as a lawyer (in many Eastern cultures, the lion is the defender of
law and order). The red embattled base refers to a small fiefdom in northern China granted
to the founder of the armiger’s clan roughly 3,000 years ago. Conveniently, it
also refers to the armiger’s graduate studies in city and regional planning. The badge/crest and three drops of water allude to a nickname given to a
more recent, male-line ancestor. That nickname would ultimately form the basis
for the armiger’s Thai surname. The motto refers to the armiger’s surname, which
can mean “the radiant one”. The arms, badge and standard
consist of four tinctures: Gules, Argent, Azure and Or. The first three are
the tinctures of both the U.S. and Thai national flags, thus honouring the
armiger’s dual heritage and citizenship. Gules and Or are the tinctures of
China, thus honouring the armiger’s distant patrilineal ancestors.
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