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See
Protocol
for use of our Society's Coat of Arms.
On June 8, 1994, the Clan Graham Society was granted the unique
honor of having its own coat of arms approved by the Lord Lyon King of
Arms for Scotland. This is the wording of the Lord Lyon's decree:
TO ALL AND SUNDRY WHOM THESE
PRESENTS DO OR MAY CONCERN
We, Sir Malcolm Rognvald Innis of Edingight, Knight Commander of
the Royal Victorian Order, Writer to Her Majestys Signet, Lord Lyon
King of Arms, send Greeting:
WHEREAS, Richard Graham, President, For and on behalf of CLAN GRAHAM
SOCIETY, in North America having headquarters at 2563 River Knoll
Drive, Lilburn, Georgia, United States of America, having by Petition
unto Us of date 30 June 1993 Shown, THAT the said Society was founded
during the Highland Gathering at Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina,
in July 1975; THAT the said Society has a membership of approximately
a thousand people, mainly resident in North America, who have Scottish
ancestry with the surname Graham; AND the Petitioner having prayed
that there might be granted unto him for and on behalf of the Clan
Graham Society in North America such Ensigns Armorial as might be
found suitable and according to the Laws of Arms.
KNOW YE THEREFORE that We have Devised and Do by These Presents
Assign, Ratify and Confirm unto the Petitioner for and on behalf of
Clan Graham Society in North America the following Ensigns Armorial,
as depicted upon the margin here of, and matriculated of even date
with These Presents upon the 120th page of the 75 Volume of the Public
Register of ALL Arms and Bearings in Scotland, VIDELICET: Or three
pellets conjoined in chief Sable each charged with an escallop Or,
Above the Shield is placed an helm suitable to an Incorporation
(VIDELICET: - a sallet proper lined Gvles) with a Mantling Sable
doubled Or, and on a Wreath of the Liveries is set for Crest a Falcon
Proper, armed and beaked Or, grasping in the dexter claw three
annulets conjoined Sable, and an Escrol over the same this Motto
"RIOGHAIL AGUS MARAON" by demonstration of which Ensigns Armorial the
said Clan Graham Society, in North America is amongst all Nobles and
in all Places of honor, to be taken, numbered, accounted and received
as a Society Noble in the Noblesse of Scotland.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF We have Subscribed These Presents and the Seal
of Our Office is affixed hereto at Edinburgh this 8th day of June in
the 43 Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth the Second,
by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, and of her Other Realms and Territories, Queen, head
of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of Our
Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety Four.
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