Pellew
Sir Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
Pinches
Thinking the other day about where some of our heraldry books came from, we remembered Rosemary Pinches. If you bought heraldry books over the decades as we did, we are sure you either knew her or of her.
Powell, GEN Colin
General Colin Luther Powell, KCB was born in 1937 in Haarlem, NY, his parents were Luther and Maud Powell who immigrated to the United States from Jamaica.
Power
Guy Harold Power, MStJ was born in 1952 at Ft. Benning, in the County of Chattahoochee, Georgia, USA to Major Raleigh Broughton Power, an Army Special Forces Officer, and Mary Jean Hodges.
Risk
James Charles Risk, CVO , born on 13 May 1913, he became a specialist in coins, orders and medals and worked at Coin Galleries on 57th Street in New York City for many years. Jim was also the author of the book “Order of the Bath”.
Roberts
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, VC, KG, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, OM, DCL, 1st Earl Roberts and Baronet, is entered in our armorial not because he was one of England’s most famous 19th century soldiers, nor that he was a recipient of the Victoria Cross as a young subaltern, nor that he was 23 times “Mentioned in Dispatches”, thanked by Parliament twice and granted £100,000 by them; he is entered for an Act of Charity.
Roberts 2
The Earl Roberts in a painting by John Singer Sargent painted in 1902
Robertson, Smith W.
Smith Whitworth Robertson was born on 31 Dec 1940 to Herbert Fremont Robertson and Carolyn Fuller Whitworth of Norfolk, CT.
Robles
The Armiger as a “first raiser” of a new name in Scotland, and as the holder of the undifferenced arms of same, is the head of the name, arms and family of Robles and thus in pre-1750 terms a small chief, which in those days no one took official cognizance of, but the chief of his family for all that.
Rosen, von
He was the Swedish nobleman who gave the newly independent country of Finland an aeroplane with which to start its Air Force on 6 March 1918.