Specimen Petition for a Grant of Arms to an Ancestor

 
 
 


COURT OF THE LORD LYON

UNTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE LORD LYON KING OF ARMS

 
The Petition of

JOHN THOMAS AUGUSTUS BLANK, D.S.O., Merchant in Glasgow and Major (retired)
the Blankshire Highlanders, residing at Blankbrae, Blanktown in the County of Blankshire, for and in memory of his grandfather THOMAS AUGUSTUS BLANK.

 
  HUMBLY SHEWETH  
 

1. THAT the Petitioner married at Glasgow 25 March 1969 Letitia Mary Atkins, daughther of Thomas Atkins and his wife (married Swetipore, Uttar Pradesh, India, 2 July 1938) Hannah Johnson Smith, and has issue by her a son and heir apparent John Everly Blank (born Blanktown 3 September 1975) and two daughters Mary Hannah Blank (born Blanktown 2 April 1971) and Heather Letitia Blank (born Edinburgh 14 May 1974);

 
  2. THAT the Petitioner was born at Blankbrae, Blanktown 20 March 1947, and is the eldest son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Andrew Blank, D.S.O., M.C. and Bar, sometime commanding the 2nd Battalion the Blankshire Highlanders, and his wife (married Bridge of Earn in the County of Perth 3 February 1946) the Honourable Corisande Helen Buggins, daughter of Henry, 5th Lord Buggins:  
  3. THAT the Petitioner's father, Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Andrew Blank (born Blanktown 13 December 1910) was second son of Thomas Augustus Blank, Naval Architect, and his wife (married Bexhill in the County of Sussex 4 July 1905) Polly Perkins, daughter of Josiah Perkins, Haberdasher;  
 

4. THAT the Petitioner is desirous that such Ensigns Armorial as might be found suitable and according to the Laws of Arms might be granted for and in memory of his said grandfather Thomas Augustus Blank.

 
    MAY IT THEREFORE please Your Lordship to Authorise the Lyon Clerk to prepare Letters Patent granting unto the Petitioner's said grandfather and his descendants such Ensigns Armorial as Your Lordship may find suitable and according to the Laws of Arms,  
  AND your Petitioner will ever pray.  
 

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