Our Armorial Bearings

Thanks to documents preserved by Past Master Beech, the distinguished author on heraldry, Richard Goddard, Past Master Watermen and Lightermen, has written a short history on our Armorial Bearings and the Grant of Arms to the Firefighters.

Click on the link to read the document and, if you wish to read a high-resolution copy of our Grant of Arms, it is available on the Company Flickr page.

Mr Goddard is the author of two books which may be of interest to Company members:

Masters’ Badges of the City of London Livery Companies - 2011

The Heraldry of the Livery Companies of the City of London - 2017

Both are published by Phillimore Book Publishing, West Sussex, UK.

David W Holt – Hon Archivist