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The Right Hon. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, P.C. M.P. iij
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, G.C.B. M.P. viij
Horatio Herbert, first Viscount Kitchener of Omdurman xj
Louis, first Baron Island de Rougemont xxxviij
Prince Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, Duke of Sussex xliv
George Nathaniel, first Earl Curzon of the Pamirs +specially granted+ lij
Thomas, Viscount Bowles of the Bosphorus liv
Henry, first Baron Hawkins of Tryham Fairleigh and Sentensham lviij
[Illustration: HARICONES AD MENDICOS DEBENTUR
=Arms= / quarterly / =i= emergent paly from a legal orle of reception, a civic beak newly chained or, robed and garnished proper with bullion, slightly debruised with thunderbolts issuant from a chief justifiably rampant in invective robed and wigged proper with sleeves turned up ermine gorged with a choler of justice / =ij= at a bend of the field on a turf vert under the heraldic rose a sporting veteran wary to the last putting a bit proper on a likely mount turning up trumpy on the post / =iij= several salted guinea-pigs debrettees richly gilt and voided of scruple charged with marketable coronets bartered in lure / =iiij= on a ground of promotion a partisan of renown semee with shamrocks and shillelaghs and wreathed with laurels elevated and erased all proper. =Crest= / rising from a bar barry a tower of strength armed at all points and charged with a snuff-box of resort furtively employed for solace. =Supporters= / dexter, a female figure of justice scaly on the pounce reguardant sundry bubbles of finance issuant in fraud / sinister, an Irish disunicorn, brogued proper, chronically rampant in quest of autonomy.
The Right Hon. Sir William Vernon Harcourt, P.C. M.P.
=Arms= / quarterly / =i= on a ship party-coloured, shattered, dismasted and waterlogged, a crew prone to mutiny reguardant in complacence over the side a tried and weather-beaten chief avoirdupois proper, incontinently jettisoned without scruple or remorse / =ij= on a ground of grievance two tents of Achilles, freely canvassed in the press, conjoined morly in tension and possibly somewhat overstrained / =iij= a masterly heraldic bouget of finance, charged with a fleece of gold lifted proper from sundry millionaires gorged or, collared in transit on the hop / =iiij= on a ground protestant kensittee a veteran campaigner statant single-handed "on his helmet the motto 'Ut veniant omnes!'--'Let 'em all come!'" bearing a plume mordant guttee de l'encre transfixing several anglican traitors foxy to the last but exposed proper in mummery. =Crest= / emergent from a crown of the Plantagenets, a rogue-elephant of the forest jumbonee, thwarted circumvented and finally ousted with alacrity. +=Motto= / 'Contra dexter et audax'--'Skilful and bold in opposition.'+ =Supporters= +'otherwise engaged!--mainly in accepting resignations by return of post--but in place thereof possibly the following will answer the purpose'+ / dexter, an eminent litterateur similarly isolated and unique in courtesy, and gratitude, charged with a colossal biography proper / sinister, an heraldic sun luluois radiant in geniality, exemplarily staunch and filial to the core. =Second Motto= +Welsh translation+ / 'Lyddthe ryfraf, dydd yu effyr, nod yff y nowydd!'