THE KEITH-FALCONER HERALDIC BANNNER / PIPER'S PENNANT
Auction: Day 2: Thursday 21 August - Lots 297 - end
Description
with embroidered Armorial bearing, with green and blue fringing
Dimensions
61cm x 41cm at widest
Footnote
Heraldry:
Arms: Quarterly of 1st and 4th Azure a falcon displayed between three mullets argent on her breast a man’s heart gules (for Falconer of Halkerton) 2nd and 3rd Quarterly 1st and 4th Gules a sceptre and sword in saltire with an imperial crown in chief within an orle of eight thistles or (A Coat of Augmentation) 2nd and 3rd Argent on a chief gules three pallets or (for Keith)
Note:
This pipe banner was undoubtedly in the possession of a member of the Keith-Falconer family whose head has been the Earl of Kintore since 1677. The Honourable Charles James Keith-Falconer (1832-1889) was the third son of Anthony Adrian Keith-Falconer, the 7th Earl of Kintore and his second wife, Louise Hawkins.
Charles served as a Major in the 4th Light Dragoons and 10th Hussars and saw active service against the Russians during the Crimean War 1854-56. He was later appointed as a Commissioner of Inland Revenue from 1874 until his death in 1889.
He married Caroline Diana Alridge (born 11th December 1837 died 24th February 1920), the third daughter of Robert Aldridge, of St. Leonard’s Forest in the County of Sussex on the 24th January 1857.
After his death Charles’s will was proved for probate at the Principal Registry in London on the 22nd May 1889, his personal estate being valued at £5,472, 19 Shillings and 5 Pence, not an inconsiderable sum at that time.