DICK WHITTINGTON.
Sir-The talk about Dick Whittington interested me because the name appears in my pedigree (I think some time in 16th Century), one of my people having married a Whittington. Beside the name of each family so connected were the armorial bearings, correctly drawn and coloured, as registered at the College of Heralds. The Whittington escutcheon was a shield "Checkered Argent and Azure" and the crest "Head of a Cat Proper"the whole evidently devised to commemorate Dick’s chequered career, ‘and his eventual rise to fame and fortune through the prompt and brilliant action of his faithful cat. I should deeply regret having to dismiss as mythical the story of my romantic ancestor,
E.G.
F.
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 5
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116DICK WHITTINGTON. New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 5
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