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Crest Meaning: Dewar
The Dewar crest is an armoured arm holding a sword, emerging from a crown with strawberry leaves. This is the crest of the Dewars of Vogie, the successors of the senior line, the Dewars of Dewar (i.e. ‘of that Ilk’).
The crest doesn’t seem to have been in use when Nisbet wrote his system of heraldry in 1722.
The crest appears in Bernard Burke’s General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales of 1884, which has Dewar of Vogrie’s crest an armoured arm brandishing a sword with the motto Quid Non Pro Patria, so we are just missing the strawberry-leaf crown at this time. This was still the case in 1905 with Fairbairn’s book of crests.
The armoured arm and sword are presumably just expression of ancestral martial prowess. This may be an oblique reference to the Dewars of Vogrie’s gunpowder mill, which was the first in Scotland, although this could be a stretch.
The crown was possibly introduced as a reference to Vice Admiral Kenneth Dewar (1879-1964), who in 1929 served as naval aide-de-camp to King George V. He had served at the Battle of Jutland and had for a time commanded the battleship HMS Royal Oak between the wars.
MKP 31 August 2023