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British baronet and retired officer of arms For other people named Henry Paston-Bedingfeld, see Henry Paston-Bedingfeld (disambiguation).

Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld wearing his ceremonial tabard during an annual Garter Service at St George's Windsor

Sir Henry Edgar Paston-Bedingfeld, 10th Baronet (born 7 December 1943) is a British baronet and retired officer of arms.

Family and career

Paston-Bedingfeld is the only son of Sir Edmund Paston-Bedingfeld, 9th Baronet of Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, by his wife Joan Lynette Rees. He succeeded to the family title upon his father's death on 24 May 2011. He was educated at Ampleforth College, then an all-boys Catholic private school in Ampleforth, Yorkshire.

Paston-Bedingfeld served as Rouge Croix Pursuivant from 1983, and then in 1993 became York Herald. In 2010 he was promoted to Norroy and Ulster King of Arms, the junior of the two provincial Kings-at-Arms, with jurisdiction over the north of England and Northern Ireland. In July 2014, he retired and was succeeded by Timothy Duke.

He is an Honorary Vice-president of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society and of the Norfolk Record Society; Sir Henry is also a liveryman of the Bowyers' Company and served as Master of the Scriveners' Company for 2012–13.

In 1968, Paston-Bedingfield married Mary Kathleen, a daughter of Brigadier Robert Ambrose CIE OBE MC, and they have two sons and two daughters; their elder son, Richard (born 1975) is heir apparent to the baronetcy.

Selected heraldic designs by Paston-Bedingfeld

Honours

Arms

Coat of arms of Henry Paston-Bedingfeld
Crest
1. An Eagle displayed Or (Bedingfeld),
2. A Griffin sejant wings elevated Or gorged with a Collar Gules therefrom a Line held in the beak and terminating in a Ring of the Last (Paston)
Helm
That of a Knight
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st & 4th Ermine an Eagle displayed Gules (Bedingfeld), 2nd & 3rd Argent six Fleurs-de-lys three two and one Azure a Chief indented Or (Paston)
Motto
1. Despicio terrena, Solem contemplor ("I despise earthly things, I gaze upon the Sun"),
2. De mieulx je pense en mieulx ("I think of better and better things")
Orders
A baronet's badge suspended beneath the arms
Symbolism
A Baronet's badge:
Previous versions
Sir Henry impaled his company's arms with those of his family during his year of office as Master Scrivener

See also

References

  1. ^ Burke's Peerage, volume 3, 2003, page 3067
  2. "No. 49291". The London Gazette. 17 March 1983. p. 3737.
  3. "No. 53435". The London Gazette. 23 September 1993. p. 15437.
  4. "College of Arms, What's New – Norroy and Ulster King of Arms". Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  5. "New Norroy and Ulster King of Arms", College of Arms, 3 July 2014, accessed 24 September 2023.
  6. "www.norfolkrecordsociety.org.uk". Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  7. Heraldry Gazette NS 67 (March 1998), 6.
  8. The Heraldry Gazette NS 64 (June 1997), 6.
  9. Heraldry Gazette NS 67 (March 1998), 7.
  10. Scriveners' Company arms Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine

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Baronetage of England
Preceded bySir Edmund Paston-Bedingfeld Baronet
(of Oxburgh)
2011–present 		Incumbent
Heraldic offices
Preceded bySir Thomas Woodcock
Rouge Croix Pursuivant
1983–1993 		Succeeded byDavid White
Preceded byPeter Spurrier
York Herald
1993–2010 		Succeeded byPeter O'Donoghue
Preceded byPatric Dickinson
Norroy and Ulster King of Arms
2010–2014 		Succeeded byTimothy Duke
Civic offices
Preceded byPeter Esslemont Master of the Worshipful Company of Scriveners
2012–2013 		Succeeded byJohn Tunesi of Liongam
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