"Mr. Punch's" Book of Arms

by Edward Tennyson Reed

George Nathaniel, first Earl Curzon of the Pamirs 'specially granted'.

Arms / quarterly / i under a chief wavery ermine charged with a marquess's coronet for hauteur, a popinjay rising on a ground of undoubted ability / ij a Cretan lyre employed during the European concert charged with 'wires' strained improper 'probably wholly inaccurate' / iij a sun +of a peer+ in his meridian glory who declines to set upon the British dominions / iiij a lion erased, muzzled and depressed, regarding on a bastion the flags of the powers flowing in futility / over all, on an escutcheon of pretence 'as a minister of the crown' a slip verdant. Crest / a peacock in pride ruffled and displayed proper rising from a ministerial bench. Supporters / on either side an heraldic superior purzon erect omniscient pluming himself on a garb highly proper lined silk throughout. Second Motto / 'D.V. I shall go higher.'

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