Professor David Daniel Ruddy

Registered: The International Register of Arms, 3rd November 2006. Registration No. 0073.

Arms: Barry wavy of six Argent and Azure a ship's rudder Gules hinged Or, a chief of the first thereon a Latin cross of the Third between two trefoils slipped Vert.

Crest: A ship's helm Proper.

Motto: DUCHAS GAEIL

Grant: The Chief Herald of Ireland, 27th May 1988. Recorded in volume W., folio 72.

Further Registration: Canadian Heraldic Authority on 20th June 1997 in Volume II. page180.

I had asked the Chief Herald of Ireland for a simple, canting, coat-of-arms; viz the ancient red rudder [a play on both the sound and the representation of colour of my name] on a background of the colours of St Andrew [having been a student at St Andrews, 1948-52].

Both of these symbols representing my naval career as well as the seafaring activities of my ancestors on the West Coast. Donal Begley saw fit to add a chief with the two trefoils and the red Latin cross, for charitable works, I presume.

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