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The armiger bears the
arms granted to his father William Owen Hassall of the Manor House in
the Parish of Wheatley in the County of Oxfordshire, esquire. William
Owen Hassall was Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Oxford,
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Freeman of the City of
Chester, Librarian to the Earl of Leicester at Holkham and senior
Assistant Librarian of the Bodleian Library. The grantee was born at
York, 4 August 1912 and died at Wheatley 19 July 1994. He married 4
July 1936 Averil Grafton Beaves, by whom he had three sons, Tim, Mark and
Tom and a daughter Cory. The youngest son, the armiger's brother Tom
Hassall, was born 3 December 1943. He married Angela Goldsmith on 2nd
September 1967 and had three sons, Oliver, born 28 November 1968,
Nicholas born 30 April 1970 and Edward born 10 July 1972'.
Tim, the eldest son, born 11 October 1938 and married Ines Roth 2
September 1966 by whom he had two daughters, Bettina, born 29 July
1967 and Florence born 21 September 1968. He died in 1993.
The second son Mark, the Armiger, was born in 13 June 1940. He married
Catherine Mary Ward-Perkins 16 September 1972, and had two sons, Ralph
William John Hassall, born 30th September 1978 and John Cory Hassall
born 17 February 1981. John Hassall married Line Thomsen 23 August 2008
and has one son Viktor James born 27 September 2009. Cory Frances Hassall was born 14 May 1942. She married Rodney Lyons in 1963 and has
two children, Alexander born 21 April 1965 and Laurie 15 August 1967.
The armiger traces his descent from Ralph Hassall 1713-1795, yeoman
farmer of the parish of Tarvin, Cheshire. Ralph Hassall was the son of
Richard Hassall, victualler, of Audlem, Cheshire.
The armiger is an archaeologist and until his retirement taught
courses on Roman Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, London
University, now part of University College London. He has participated
in excavations at many sites in Britain and countries bordering the
Mediterranean.
Though no direct male line descent can be traced from the armigerous
Hassalls, lords of the manors of Hassall in Sandbach parish and
Hankelow in Audlem parish both in the county of Cheshire , the armiger
can trace a direct descent to them through the family of his paternal
grandmother, the Corys, and those of their ancestors, the Derbyshire
Gells and Beresfords, to the Hassalls of Arclyd in Sandbach, a cadet
branch of the Hassalls of Hassall and Hankelow. In view of this Garter
and Clarenceux permitted the granting of arms whose overall design
reflects that of the Hassalls of Hassall and Hankelow, per chevron,
argent and or, three pheons sable; with identical crest lacking the
circlet of pheons. The spur rowel alludes to the mullets in the arms
of Gell which are party per bend azure and or, three mullets of six
points in bend counterchanged
The heir to the arms is Ralph William John Hassall |
