Bridge Ward Club

The Shrieval Chain and Badge of Office

presented to Alderman and Sheriff-Elect

Alan Colin Drake Yarrow

21st September 2011

The Arms and Crest of Mr Alderman and Sheriff Alan Yarrow designed by William Hunt, Windsor Herald, combine elements of his family history, his career in the City and a pun on his name.

The Arms Argent a representation of the Golden Hind Sable sails Azure pennons Gules on a Chief enarched also Gules a Trout naiant Argent between two Bezants depict the Golden Hind from the Crest of his forebear, Sir Francis Drake.The other significance is the family history of Yarrow Shipbuilders. The top section of the shield, the chief, is enarched to look like one of the arches of London Bridge, for Alderman and Sheriff Yarrow represents the Ward of Bridge and Bridge Without. On it are a trout, for he is a liveryman of the Fishmongers’ Company, and two gold coins, representing both his sons, his profession as a banker, and his hobbies of golf, tennis and shooting (a bullet end on). His Crest, A Unicorn’s Head erased Argent armed and maned Or holding in its mouth a sprig of Yarrow Flowers slipped proper, The motto long used by his family, JUSTUS ESTO ET NON METUE, means “Be just and fear not”.

As the background to the design for the Shrieval Badge, which he made, Grant Macdonald has used a cipher composed of two £ signs interlaced. The shields around Alderman and Sheriff Yarrow’s personal Arms depict on the left the Arms of the Worshipful Companies of International Bankers and of Launderers, of which he is a Liveryman and Honorary Liveryman respectively, and of the London Stock Exchange, where his City career began. On the right are the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, his mother company, the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments, of which he is Chairman, and Harrow School, which he attended.

Between his Badge and the Coat of Arms of the City of London, which are themselves depicted within a design from an early £5 note, are four coffee beans alluding to Jonathan’s, the coffee shop which was the precursor of the London Stock Exchange; between the beans is a diamond to mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. The shoulder pieces on the chain are in the form of the Badge of the Bridge House Estates, surrounded by an embattled circlet representing the spiral stairs within the Monument which stands in ths heart of his Ward.



	Home The Shrieval Badge The Shrieval Badge and Chain Alan and Gilly Yarrow at the presentation ceremony				The Shrieval Chain and Badge of Office presented to Alderman and Sheriff-Elect Alan Colin Drake Yarrow 21st September 2011 The Arms and Crest of Mr Alderman and Sheriff Alan Yarrow designed by William Hunt, Windsor Herald, combine elements of his family history, his career in the City and a pun on his name. The Arms Argent a representation of the Golden Hind Sable sails Azure pennons Gules on a Chief enarched also Gules a Trout naiant Argent between two Bezants depict the Golden Hind from the Crest of his forebear, Sir Francis Drake.The other significance is the family history of Yarrow Shipbuilders. The top section of the shield, the chief, is enarched to look like one of the arches of London Bridge, for Alderman and Sheriff Yarrow represents the Ward of Bridge and Bridge Without. On it are a trout, for he is a liveryman of the Fishmongers’ Company, and two gold coins, representing both his sons, his profession as a banker, and his hobbies of golf, tennis and shooting (a bullet end on). His Crest, A Unicorn’s Head erased Argent armed and maned Or holding in its mouth a sprig of Yarrow Flowers slipped proper, The motto long used by his family, JUSTUS ESTO ET NON METUE, means “Be just and fear not”. As the background to the design for the Shrieval Badge, which he made, Grant Macdonald has used a cipher composed of two £ signs interlaced. The shields around Alderman and Sheriff Yarrow’s personal Arms depict on the left the Arms of the Worshipful Companies of International Bankers and of Launderers, of which he is a Liveryman and Honorary Liveryman respectively, and of the London Stock Exchange, where his City career began. On the right are the Arms of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, his mother company, the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments, of which he is Chairman, and Harrow School, which he attended. Between his Badge and the Coat of Arms of the City of London, which are themselves depicted within a design from an early £5 note, are four coffee beans alluding to Jonathan’s, the coffee shop which was the precursor of the London Stock Exchange; between the beans is a diamond to mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. The shoulder pieces on the chain are in the form of the Badge of the Bridge House Estates, surrounded by an embattled circlet representing the spiral stairs within the Monument which stands in ths heart of his Ward. See the Badge or see it with its Chain.