Clan Chisholm Crest & Coats of Arms

Clan Chisholm Crest

Worn by all of the name and ancestry

Crest Description:
A dexter hand holding a dagger erect, Proper, the point thereof transfixing a boar’s head erased, Or

Clan Chisholm Coat of Arms

A note on Coats of Arms:
Under Scottish heraldic law a coat of arms is awarded to an individual (with the exception of civic or corporate arms) . There is no such thing as a ‘family coat of arms’ The arms represented below are personal arms (with the above exceptions). Only the individual granted these arms has the right to use them. for more information see our pages on heraldry here:
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CHISHOLM

CHISHOLM
Gules a boar’s head couped Argent. Alexander Nisbet’s A System of Heraldry 1722

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1) CHISHOLM OF CHISHOLM

1) CHISHOLM OF CHISHOLM
2) Mrs Mary CHISHOLM or GOODEN
3) Mrs CHISHOLM BATTEN
4) James Chisholm GOODEN-CHISHOLM
Gules a boar’s head couped Or. Sir James Balfour Paul’s Scottish Ordinary;
1a) 1st matric 1816
1b) 2nd matric 1831
2) 1827
3) 1860
4) 1887

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1) CHISHOLM OF COMER

1) CHISHOLM OF COMER
2) Capt Roderick CHISHOLM OF CHISHOLM
3) Andrew Francis Hamish CHISHOLM OF CHISHOLM
Gules a boar’s head couped Or langued Azure. 1) Sir James Balfour Paul’s Scottish Ordinary;
1760
2) An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973
29th March 1938 33/12 *
3) Lyon Register 12 Dec 1998 (BLG Scotland)
* also Alistair Hamish Wiland Andre Fraser Chisholm of Chilsholm yrg – Debruised of three point label during his father’s lifetime

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William CHISHOLM

William CHISHOLM
Writer, Edinburgh Gules a boar’s head couped Or within a bordure nebuly of the second. Sir James Balfour Paul’s Scottish Ordinary
1672-7

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SCOTT CHISHOLM OF STIRCHES

SCOTT CHISHOLM OF STIRCHES Quarterly 1st & 4th Gules a boar’s head and neck couped Argent 2nd & 3rd Or on a bend Azure a mullet Argent between two crescents of the first within a bordure of the second charged with two crescents in chief and a mullet in base as of the former. Sir James Balfour Paul’s Scottish Ordinary
1853

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Aeneas CHISHOLM

Aeneas CHISHOLM
Roman Catholic Bishop in Aberdeen Gules a boar’s head couped Or langued Azure within a bordure engrailed Vert charged with three mitres Argent. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973
6th March 1902 16/78

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Ruari Ian Lambert CHISHOLM

Ruari Ian Lambert CHISHOLM Gules a boar’s head couped Or langued Azure within a bordure Argent for difference. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973
19th April 1939 33/60
[brother of Alistair Hamish Wiland Andre Fraser Chisholm]

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Henry John CHISHOLM

Henry John CHISHOLM
Australia Gules a boar’s head erased Or armed proper langued Azure within a bordure invected Vert charged with three estoiles of eight points of the second. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973
30th November 1961 46/89

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CHISHOLM OF CROMLIX

CHISHOLM OF CROMLIX Gules a boar’s head couped Argent langued Azure accompanied by a mitre in dexter chief and an open book in base both Or. An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973
20th December 1954 40/71
Described as Arms of affection for Chisholm of Cromlix (3rd quarter) of Hon. Evelyn Vane DRUMMOND OF CROMLIX or EDEN

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