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This morning I gave an exam to three students in the ‘Pavilion Room’, a formal dining room or parlor added to the Victorian house at Brown University which now houses the History Department<\/a>. And I brought my camera to photograph the wood coat of arms, on the amazing scallop-shiplapped chimney hood:<\/p>\n

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More or less argent a lion rampant gules, on a chief sable three crescents or<\/i>. Papworth doesn’t give us anything close to this (1:105 is where the lions with stuff on a chief are found). Burke’s general armory (1032) may get us into the ballpark, with the only family using ‘fortis non ferox’ as that of Trotter, and specifically a Trotter family that combines a lion rampant (azure) and a chief (ermine).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately no such imaginative late-Victorian Providence Trotter is found in Crozier, Bolton or Matthews. I suppose I’ll have to look up the house itself, but it would be more fun to smoke this out another way. Not a plaque or brochure at all in the house itself, mind you, except those relating to Mr. Peter Green, the late 20th-century benefactor after whom the house is now named.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b>: the family is Kimball<\/b> — see comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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