Henry St George
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Life
He was born in 1581 at Hatley St George, Cambridgeshire. He entered the College of Arms as Rouge Rose pursuivant-extraordinary in 1610 and was promoted to Bluemantle pursuivant the following year, in which capacity accompanied his father in his visitations of Derbyshire and Cheshire. In 1614 he married Mary, the daughter of Sir Thomas Dayrell of Lillingstone Dayrell, Buckinghamshire, with whom he had eleven children. He was promoted to Richmond herald in 1616 and acted as William CamdenWilliam Camden
William Camden was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and officer of arms. He wrote the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.- Early years :Camden was born in London...
's deputy for a number of visitations between 1619 and 1623. In 1625 he was sent to France to bring Queen Henrietta Maria to England and to Sweden in 1627 to invest the king of Sweden with the Order of the Garter, when he was knighted by the Swedish king.
Between 1633 and 1635 he acted as his father's deputy for the visitation of London, and in the reorganization of the College of Arms following his father's death, he was appointed Norroy king of arms. In April 1639 he was suspended and fined by the earl marshal for forging his father's signature on a faked grant of arms, but he was restored with a pardon under the great seal a year later. During the civil war he accompanied the king to Oxford, where he was appointed Garter king of arms to succeed Sir John Borough
John Borough
Sir John Borough was the Garter Principal King of Arms 1633-43.-Life:He was grandson of William Borough, of Sandwich, Kent, by the daughter of Basil Gosall, of Nieuwkerk, Brabant, and son of John Borough, of Sandwich, by his wife, daughter of Robert Denne, of Dennehill, Kent. He received a...
in 1644. He died at Brasenose College, Oxford, on 5 November 1644 and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral.