KINNEAR, JOHN GARDINER
Arms.—Quarterly.
1st and 4th; sa., on a bend or, 3 martlets vert., a bordure of the second. Kinnear.
2nd and 3rd; arg., on a fret gu., 4 hearts, one in each angle, gu., and in every interstice a rose of the second. Gardiner.
Crest.—An anchor in pale az.
Motto.—Spem fortuna alit.
[Bannatyne Club. The Palice of Honour. Edinburgh, 1827.]
John Gardiner Kinnear was a banker of Edinburgh. He was a member of the Bannatyne Club, to which he was admitted in 1826.
The Kinnears were well known as a family of bankers, and they also had literary tastes. The particular book from which I have taken the accompanying coat-of-arms is one that was presented to the Bannatyne Club in 1827, and reprinted in that year for Mr. J. G. Kinnear. The text is taken from a rare book written by Gawyn Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, called The Palice of Honour, and "Imprentit at Edinburgh be Johne Ros, for Henric Charteris, Anno 1579."
