Whitaker's Peerage for the Year 1905

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Excerpt from Whitaker's Peerage for the Year 1905: Being a Directory of Titled Persons and Containing an Extended List of the Royal Family, the Peerage With Titled Issue, Dowager Ladies, Baronets Knights and Companions, Privy Councillors, and Home and Colonial Bishops, With a Comprehensive IntroductionThere is here either latent or patent a considerable amount Of illustration of the following pages. The corners, we have at the upper left a representation Of the Star of the Order of at the right that of the Thistle, at the lower left, that of St. Patrick, and at the lower right that of the Military Division of the g.c.b. Exhibiting the correct form of a Maltese Cross (the clefts in which are, however, in some cases deeper). Turning now to the coronets &c., In the oval design surrounding the letter - press, we need only remark that N ephews corresponds to Princes and Princesses of the Blood, and Royal Dukes to Princes of the Blood Royal, whilst the Cap of Di ity or of Maintenance has been not only a head-dress of Royalty (much favoured by Henry t e Seventh), but is met with in the coats of arms of forty of the nobility, including the Dukes of Norfolk, Hamilton, Richmond, Grafton, St. Albans, Leeds, Rutland, and N orthumber land, together with several Peers so recently created as Barons Howard of Glossop, Norton, Brabourne, and Playfair: it is borne also by twenty-one Baronets. As to the Archbishop's mitre, which some protest ought in nowise to diff er from a Bishop's, our remarks under the headings of these two Orders will suffice to make our position clear in the matter. The intermediate devices connected by chainwork are intended to show the forms of the Collars worn by the respective four Orders of Knighthood just described, to each of which belongs that quarter of the Collar lying nearest to its own figured Star. Thus perpendicularly under the Garter corner is a medal-garter depicting one of the twenty-six which are worked into the actual Collar and on each side of it, though interrupted by the coronets, is a true-lovers' knot as described in loo.. The adjacent upper quarter is devoted to the Thistle, and exhibits the device of that symbol with the intervening) sprigs of rue as they are found in the Collar of the Order. Against the quarter of St. Patrick will e found the harp, rose, and knot, the series of which three make up the St. Patrick Collar. Lastly, against the Bath corner we have the crown of four arches (which. We have ventured to call the Albert Crown from its having been the form worn by the late Prince Consort), the device of rose, thistle, and shamrock, and the knot. The entire chainwork, being double, may also be said to belong more particularly to this Order, as in the Collar of the Garter it appears on the inner margin only, and in those of the other two Orders the objects are attached together by their edges and without chains. Surmounting the entire oval of the title-page are the St. Edward's or Imperial Crown, and the Sceptre Royal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.