Well, to be honest, it was four Sheriffs (two of which we are reviewing today), and I only "shot" them in the sense of "took a photograph" of their coats of arms.
But you can see why the old Bob Marley song came to mind in preparing to write this post.
But be that as it may, today we're going to look at the arms of two Sheriffs of Middlesex, England, whose arms can be found in one of the windows in the Supreme Court of the UK building, formerly the Middlesex Guildhall.
The first is Arthur Nockolds Gilbey, Sheriff in 1912. He was born on 6 April 1861, the son of Sir Walter Gilbey. His home was Bloomsbury St George in Middlesex, but his active life took him to a number of places of the home counties and beyond. Gilbey was most famous not for his public service but for his keenness for fishing. His obituary in The Times in 1939 was devoted entirely to Gilbey’s prominence amongst the angling fraternity and his pioneering techniques in developing the craft of the angler, in particular in pursuit of trout.
His arms, seen on the left side of the window below, and which appear to have no relationship at all to fishing or angling, are blazoned: Gules a fess nebuly between in chief a horse rampant between two estoiles and the same in base all or, on the fess a crescent argent for difference. The crest is: On a tower proper issuant from the battlements thereof a dragon’s head gules a fleur de lys or all between two ostrich feathers argent. And the motto: Honore et Virtute (“Honour and virtue”).
The first is Arthur Nockolds Gilbey, Sheriff in 1912. He was born on 6 April 1861, the son of Sir Walter Gilbey. His home was Bloomsbury St George in Middlesex, but his active life took him to a number of places of the home counties and beyond. Gilbey was most famous not for his public service but for his keenness for fishing. His obituary in The Times in 1939 was devoted entirely to Gilbey’s prominence amongst the angling fraternity and his pioneering techniques in developing the craft of the angler, in particular in pursuit of trout.
His arms, seen on the left side of the window below, and which appear to have no relationship at all to fishing or angling, are blazoned: Gules a fess nebuly between in chief a horse rampant between two estoiles and the same in base all or, on the fess a crescent argent for difference. The crest is: On a tower proper issuant from the battlements thereof a dragon’s head gules a fleur de lys or all between two ostrich feathers argent. And the motto: Honore et Virtute (“Honour and virtue”).
As always, you can click on the image above to see the full-size, and therefore much more detailed, picture.
The other Sheriff, in the right-hand window, is Joseph Edward Lilley, a stockbroker and later a barrister. He was born in 1850 in Northamptonshire, and married a Northamptonshire woman, Emma Harris of Peterborough.
As a stockbroker he traded in the City, at Throgmorton Avenue. He later passed his law examination and became a Barrister; he was called to the bar in May 1900. He became sheriff of Middlesex in 1904.
His arms are blazoned: Azure on a pile between two fleurs de lys in base argent a lily of the valley eradicated proper. His crest is: On a cubit arm holding in the hand two lilies of the valley leaved and slipped in saltire all proper, a fleur-de-lys argent. And the motto: In Arduis Fortior (“Stronger in difficulty”).
Next time, shots of two more Sheriffs' arms.
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