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"Family is family, whether it’s the one you start out with the one you end up with, or the family you gain along the way." — Unknown "To care for those who once cared for us is one of the ...
The crest and motto elements of the crest badge are always the heraldic property of an individual (the crest badges, used by most Scottish clan members, are usually the heraldic property of a clan's chief).
The sense of dum spiro spero can be found in the work of Greek poet Theocritus (3rd Century BC), who wrote: "While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none." [2] That sentiment seems to have become common by the time of Roman statesman Cicero (106 – 43 BC), who wrote to Atticus: "As in the case of a sick man one says, 'While there is life there is hope' [dum anima est, spes ...
Tartan Hope. The surname Hope may be of native Scottish origin, being derived from the Scottish Borders family of Hop or Hoip. [4] In 1296 John de Hop of Peeblesshire and Adam le Houp both appear on the Ragman Rolls submitting to Edward I of England. [4] Alexander Nisbet suggested that the name may be from the H'oublons of Picardy family in ...
Amsterdam Zoo: Natura Artis Magistra (Nature is the teacher of art); International Expositions: Semper Verum (Always true); Monarchist League of Canada: Fidelitate Coniuncti (United by fealty)
The Hope family are a Scottish aristocratic family whose members include the Hope Baronets of Craighall, the Marquesses of Linlithgow, the Barons Rankeillour, the Barons Glendevon and the Earls of Annandale and Hartfell.
The usual torse around the crest is frequently replaced by some kind of coronet, known as a "crest-coronet". The standard form is a simplified ducal coronet , consisting of three fleurons on a golden circlet; these are not, however, indications of rank, though they are not generally granted nowadays except in special circumstances. [ 21 ]
The crest is the Lady of Good Hope, grasping an anchor, first introduced as a symbol of the colony in 1715. [3] The supporters, a gnu and an oryx (gemsbok), are two typical South African animals. The motto, "Spes Bona" simply means "Good Hope". Version with redesigned crest. New artwork was introduced in 1952.