Arms of Dunlap: Argent a double-headed griffin sejant erect affrontée parted per fess Gules and Sable holding by the blade a sword palewise point downwards proper hilted Or.
SOURCE/NOTES & CREDITS: Credit for information on the Dunlap grant of arms goes to the Canadian Heraldic Authority, Credit for personal information about John T. Dunlap goes to and adapted from the Wikipedia article and to our friend Robert LaRocca for which we thank him. Credit for the arms blazon goes to John Hamilton Gaylor with our thanks !
John Timothy Dunlap, Prince Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta was born in 1957 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ottawa and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Western Ontario.
Dunlap was admitted to the New York State Bar Association and the Ontario Bar Association. In 1986, he joined the New York legal firm Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller. He became a partner in 1993. He specializes in corporate and immigration law. He was a legal advisor to the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations.
On May 3, 2023, at age 66, Fra’ John Dunlap was elected and sworn in for ten years as Prince and 81st Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Dunlap’s election was made possible by the 2022 revisions to the Order’s constitution ordered by His Holiness Pope Francis, which removed the traditional requirement that the Grand Master be able to prove noble ancestry.
For further information see his other entry as the Grand Master of the Order of Malta.
The artwork is an interpretation of John Hamilton Gaylor
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