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Registration: South African Bureau of Heraldry on 8
February 2002. Certificates nos. 3299 (arms), 3300 (badge), 3301
(standard) dated 29 November 2002.
Further Private Registration: Collegium
Heraldicum Russiae, registered 19 February 2003 (arms). American
College of Heraldry, registered 22 March 2003, no. 2315 (arms, badge
and standard). Heraldische Gemeinschaft Westfalen, registered 10
December 2004, no. DEV0204 (arms, supporters and compartment). United
States Heraldic Registry, registered 14 January 2006, no. 20060114G
(arms).
Further Certification: Don
Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y Gila, Marqués de la Floresta, Crónista
de Armas de Castilla y León, certified 13 May 2005 (arms, supporters,
compartment, two badges and standard).
Rendition of arms,
badge and standard by Gordon Macpherson, Niagara Herald Extraordinary
of the Canadian Heraldic Authority.
The armiger was born in
1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio (U.S.A.) to a professional family of
predominately Sino-Siamese (Thai) descent. The armiger graduated from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Bachelor of Science), Cornell
University (Master of Regional Planning) and Washington University in
St. Louis (Juris Doctor). He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of
Arbitrators (U.K.), and is licensed to practice law in New York and
before the U.S. Court of International Trade.
His other professional
memberships include: The New York Bar Association, American Bar
Association (International Law Section) and Phi Alpha Delta Law
Fraternity.
Other memberships
include: The American College of Heraldry, The Royal Heraldry Society
of Canada, Fellowship of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain
and Ireland and The Siam Society Under Royal Patronage.
The armiger’s wife is
also a lawyer. Together, they are the parents of three young children.
The armiger has enjoyed heraldry and vexillology since his teens, and
in 2001 decided to register his arms, badge and standard with a
recognized heraldic authority to start a colourful family tradition.
The basis for their design rests in various aspects of the armiger’s
background.
The lion, pronounced
“singh” or “sinha” in Thai, is canting for the armiger’s surname. The
lion as the king of beasts also alludes to the armiger’s undergraduate
studies in zoology, and his profession as a lawyer (in many Eastern
cultures, the lion is the defender of law and order). The red
embattled base refers to a small fiefdom in northern China granted to
the founder of the armiger’s clan roughly 3,000 years
ago. Conveniently, it also refers to the armiger’s graduate studies in
city and regional planning. The badge/crest and three drops of water
allude to a nickname given to a more recent, male-line ancestor. That
nickname would ultimately form the basis for the armiger’s Thai
surname. The motto refers to the armiger’s surname, which can mean
“the radiant one”. The arms, badge and standard consist of four
tinctures: Gules, Argent, Azure and Or. The first three are the
tinctures of both the U.S. and Thai national flags, thus honouring the
armiger’s dual heritage and citizenship. Gules and Or are the
tinctures of China, thus honouring the armiger’s distant patrilineal
ancestors. |
