Queen Elizabeth II Document Letters Patent Grant of Arms Title Nobility Wax Seal

Description: LOT-LSE87.For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important original c.1972 H.M. Queen Elizabeth II gold illuminated Grant of Arms / Title of Nobility for Sir Dingle Macintosh Foot, including red royal Elizabeth II document box with ERII cipher and arms. Royal document measures approximately 21" x 22.5". Document is manuscript hand-written on vellum or parchment. 24K gold leaf. Hand-painted royal coats of arms. Red royal wax seals cased in brass. Silk or satin ribbon. Royal presentation document box measures 22" x 3.5" x 4". Museum quality. One of a kind. Guaranteed authentic. Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, QC (24 August 1905 18 June 1978) was a British lawyer, Liberal and Labour Member of Parliament, and Solicitor General for England and Wales in the first government of Harold Wilson. Born in Plymouth, Devon, Foot was the eldest son of Isaac Foot, who was a solicitor and founder of the Plymouth law firm, Foot and Bowden. Isaac Foot was an active member of the Liberal Party and was Liberal Member of Parliament for Bodmin in Cornwall between 1922 and 1924 and again from 1929 to 1935, and also a Lord Mayor of Plymouth. Dingle Foot was educated at Bembridge School, a boys' independent school on the Isle of Wight, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union in 1928. He had four brothers: Michael, a prominent figure in the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983; John (Lord Foot), a Liberal politician; Hugh (Lord Caradon), Governor of Cyprus and British Ambassador to the United Nations and Christopher, a solicitor who joined the family firm. He also had two sisters. His nephew, Hugh's son, was the campaigning journalist Paul Foot. He married Dorothy Mary Elliston, who died in 1989. They had no children.

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