Blazon of Arms

for

Brian Brendan Michael John
Mackenzie-Hanson

Arms - Quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure, a stag's head, cabossed, or, for MACKENZIE; 2nd argent, a lion rampant, gules, within a border, sable; on a canton, argent, a harp and a viscount's crown, or, for LANE; 3rd, argent, a chevron between three foxes' heads, erased, gules, and (for distinction) in the centre chief point a cross crosslet sable, for FOX. Below the shield: dexter, two holly (cuileann) leaves, for MACKENZIE; centre, two shamrocks, for SNEE; sinister, two variegated ivy leaves, for HANSON; proper; with the stalks thereof bound together in a fasces with binding, or, and axe-blade, argent also for HANSON.

Helms - 1st and 2nd, argent, a peer's helm, the 1st facing the 2nd.

Crests - 1st, out of a wreath, azure and or, a stag's head cabossed, between two stag's horns, or, for MACKENZIE; 2nd, out of a coronet composed of fleurs-de-lis, or, an estoile, argent, for SACKVILLE (from LANE-FOX);

Mantling - Azure and or.

Supporters - Dexter, an armed highlander in full costume of the Mackenzie modern colours tartan with a badge of the cuileann, proper, for MACKENZIE; sinister, a griffin rampant, azure, gorged with a ducal coronet, or, therefrom pendant an escutcheon of arms of SACKVILLE:- Quarterly, or and gules, a bend vair; each supporter standing on a scroll, or.

Mottoes - Dexter scroll: "Daonnan Dìleas" (Scottish Gaelic, meaning "Always Faithful"), for MACKENZIE; sinister scroll: "Sola Virtus Invicta" (Latin, meaning "Virtue Alone is Invincible"), for both HANSON and HOWARD.

Badge - Cuileann (Holly), for MACKENZIE.

Tartans - Clan Mackenzie: Old and Modern colours; Dress Mackenzie: Old and Modern Colours; Clan Mackenzie: Hunting (muted green and muted brown).

 

"What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize". - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).