Sir Anthony Wagner
nigel and alice prince
Regarding the recent posting asking for information about Sir Anthony Wagner. His truly excellent book English Genealogy has some notes about him on the cover.
"Sir Anthony Wagner, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., D. Litt., was born in 1908 and was a King's Scholar of Eton and Robin Hollway scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. He entered the College of Arms as Portcullis Pursuivant in 1931, was appointed Richmond Herald in 1943, was Garter King of Arms from 1961 to 1978 and is now (1983) Clarenceux King of Arms and Director of the Heralds' Museum in the Tower of London. He served in the War Office from 1939 to 1943 and in the Ministry of Town and Country Planning from 1943 to 1946. He was Genealogist of the Order of the Bath from 1961 to 1972, of St John from 1961 to 1975, Inspector of Regimental Colours from 1961 to 1977, a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1973 to 1980, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Balliol in 1978.
He is the author of a number of books on heraldry, genealogy and the heralds, including 'Heralds and Heraldry in the Middle Ages', 'English Genealogy', 'Heralds of England', 'Pedigree and Progress', 'Heralds and Ancestors' and 'The Wagners of Brighton'. As a genealogist he has taken a special interest in the bearing of genealogy on social history."
I think Wagner must also have made some contribution to the amendments to the Complete Peerage as I recall that he corrected the entry on John, Lord Botetourt to indicate Botetourt's apparent identity as bastard of Edward I.
Regards to all
Nigel Prince
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> Regarding the recent posting asking for information about Sir Anthony Wagner. His truly excellent book English Genealogy has some notes about him on the cover.
>
> "Sir Anthony Wagner, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., D. Litt., was born in 1908
and was a King's Scholar of Eton and Robin Hollway scholar of Balliol
College, Oxford. He entered the College of Arms as Portcullis
Pursuivant in 1931, was appointed Richmond Herald in 1943, was Garter
King of Arms from 1961 to 1978 and is now (1983) Clarenceux King of
Arms and Director of the Heralds' Museum in the Tower of London. He
served in the War Office from 1939 to 1943 and in the Ministry of Town
and Country Planning from 1943 to 1946. He was Genealogist of the
Order of the Bath from 1961 to 1972, of St John from 1961 to 1975,
Inspector of Regimental Colours from 1961 to 1977, a Trustee of the
National Portrait Gallery from 1973 to 1980, and was elected an
Honorary Fellow of Balliol in 1978.
>
> He is the author of a number of books on heraldry, genealogy and the heralds, including 'Heralds and Heraldry in the Middle Ages', 'English Genealogy', 'Heralds of England', 'Pedigree and Progress', 'Heralds and Ancestors' and 'The Wagners of Brighton'. As a genealogist he has taken a special interest in the bearing of genealogy on social history."
>
> I think Wagner must also have made some contribution to the amendments to the Complete Peerage as I recall that he corrected the entry on John, Lord Botetourt to indicate Botetourt's apparent identity as bastard of Edward I.
>
> Regards to all
>
> Nigel Prince
There was an article in _The American Genealogist_ about ten years
ago, which examined the Botetourt claim.
As I remember, the conclusion was that nothing was found to indicate
any connection with Botetourt and King Edward - no land grants, no
gifts,
etc.
Royal descents for American colonists that were accepted by Wagner and
others
have since been rejected, one example being John Drake of New England.
Leslie