Document granting Coat of Arms, 1920

TO ALL AND SINGULAR to whom these Presents shall come Sir Henry Farnham Burke, Knight Commander of the Royal Victoria Order Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Garter Principal King of Arms, Charles Harold Athill, Esquire, Member of the Royal Victorian Order Clarenceux King of Arms and William Alexander Lindsay, Esquire, One of His Majesty’s Counsel learned in the Law, Norroy King of Arms, Send Greeting Whereas Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, of Ty Coch in the parish of Llanidan and County of Anglesey and of King’s Bench Walk, Temple in the City of London, Baronet, One of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council and one of His Majesty’s Counsel learned in the Law, hath represented unto The Right Honourable Sir Edmund Bernard Talbot (commonly called Lord Edmund Bernard Talbot) Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, One of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council and Deputy to the Most Noble Bernard Marmaduke Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, that by Deed Poll dated the eighth day of January One thousand nine hundred and eighteen, on behalf of himself his heirs and issue, he took the additional surname of Ellis before that of Griffith, That His Majesty was graciously pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date the twenty sixth day of the same month, to advance him to the dignity of a Baronet, and being desirous in accordance with ancient usage of bearing Armorial Ensigns under legal authority, he therefore requested the favour of His Lordship’s Warrant for Our granting and assigning such Armorial Bearings for Griffith and for Ellis, to be borne quarterly, as may be proper to be borne by him and his descendants according to the Law of Arms: And forasmuch as His Lordship did by Warrant under his hand and the seal of the Earl Marshal bearing date the twenty fourth day of December last authorize and direct Us to grant and assign such Armorial Ensigns accordingly Know Ye therefore that We the said Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy in pursuance of His Lordship’s Warrant and by virtue of the Letters Patent of Our several Offices to each of Us respectively granted do by these Presents grant and assign unto the said Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith Baronet the Arms following, that is to say:- Quarterly First and Fourth Argent on a Mount Vert a Griffin segreant Gules supporting a Spear proper for Griffith Second and Third Or a Saltire Vert between two Crescents in fesse and as many Wolves heads erased in pale Sable for Ellis. For the Crest of Griffith, On a Wreath Argent and Gules In front of a Griffins head erased Gules a Scaling Ladder fessewise Or And for the Crest of Ellis On a Wreath of the Colours In front of a Wolfs head erased Sable a Hunting Horn stringed Or as the same are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted to be borne and used for ever hereafter by him the said Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, Baronet, and by his descendants, with due and proper differences according to the Laws of Arms: In Witness whereof We the said Garter Clarenceux and Norroy Kings of Arms have to these Presents subscribed Our names and affixed the Seals of Our several Offices this second day of February in the tenth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Fifth by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith &c. and in the year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and twenty.

H. Farnham Burke            Garter                  C.H. Athill            Clarenceux          W.A. Lindsay               Norroy