Isaac Heard

10 Dec 1730 - 29 Apr 1822

• OCCUPATION: Navy Serviceman; Knight, Garter Principal King of Arms
  
• BIRTH: 10 Dec 1730, Ottery Saint Mary, Devon, England
• CHRISTENING: 22 Jan 1731, Ottery Saint Mary, Devon, England
• DEATH: 29 Apr 1822, Brighton, Sussex, England
• BURIAL: 7 May 1822, St. George's Royal Chapel at Windsor, England

• MARRIAGE: 7 Mar 1770, St. Ann's in Blackfryars, Pennsylvania, USA

• MARRIAGE: 18 Aug 1787, St. Margaret, Westminster, London, England

                                             _John Heard ___________+
                                            | (.... - 1670)         
                       _Isaac C. Heard _____|
                      | (.... - 1704) m 1690|
                      |                     |_Jane Rice ____________
                      |                                             
 _John Heard _________|
| (1698 - 1759) m 1726|
|                     |                      _William Massey _______
|                     |                     |                       
|                     |_Mary Massey ________|
|                       (.... - 1726) m 1690|
|                                           |_______________________
|                                                                   
|
|--Isaac Heard 
|  (1730 - 1822)
|                                            _John Michell _________+
|                                           | (1630 - 1710) m 1653  
|                      _Benjamin Michell ___|
|                     | (1676 - 1751) m 1699|
|                     |                     |_Joan Isack ___________
|                     |                       (.... - 1730) m 1653  
|_Elizabeth Michell __|
  (1705 - 1778) m 1726|
                      |                      _Edmund Rowe __________
                      |                     |  m 1674               
                      |_Elizabeth Rowe _____|
                        (1677 - 1760) m 1699|
                                            |_Elizabeth Codrington _+
                                              (.... - 1677) m 1674  

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ISAAC HEARD
Christening:
22 JAN 1731 Ottery Saint Mary, Devon, England
Parents:
Father: JOHN HEARD Family
Mother: ELIZABETH
Messages: Extracted birth or christening record for locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date.
Source Information:
Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.:
P002761 1601 - 1837 0962974, 0962975 Film 1145583


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Sir Isaac Heard was born at Ottery, St. Mary, Devonshire on December 10th, 1730, the eldest son of John Heard of Bridgewater and London.

Isaac served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy for six years, 1745-1751, serving on H.M.S. Blandford. In August of 1750, off the Guinea Coast, he was washed overboard and nearly drowned. He left the Navy and became a merchant in Bilboa, Spain and from there he visited North America. On one of these business trips, he met Miss Katherine, daughter of Andrew Tyler of Boston. They were married in 1770.

On June 15th, 1759, he was appointed the Bluemantle Herald, starting his long and distinguished career as a Herald of England. In 1761 he was elevated to the Lancaster Herald, then in 1774, the Norroy Herald. He held the posts of Brunswick and Clarenceux Herald and finally on June 1786 he was elevated to the Garter King of Arms, the Chief Herald. In his capacity as the King of Arms, he not only had the responsibility for all matters regarding heraldry, titles of nobility, inheritance for English titles, but for diplomatic missions as well. He was sent to Hesse-Casselin 1786, Saxe-Gotha in 1791; The Netherlands in 1814; Russia in 1813; Spain in 1815.

As the Garter Principal of Arms, a position he was granted on March 27th, 1784, he became prominent in the field. He was the first to interest himself in American Genealogy, no doubt influenced by his wife Katherine.

During his many years as the King of Arms, Sir Isaac was instrumental in changing some of the aspects of traditional coats of arms. He was largely responsible for establishing "landscape" style of heraldic achievements. It was conspicuous in the Arms granted Admiral, Lord Horatio Nelson. The landscape style actually depicted an event in the life of the grantee.

He compiled a number of manuscripts considered priceless today, which are part of the College of Arms wonderful collection.

He died, still on the job, at the College of Arms, in London on April 29th , 1822, at the ripe old age of 92. He was held in such high regard, he was buried in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

P. L. Gwynn-Jones, Garter Principal King of Arms (successor of Isaac Heard)

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They were childless.

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They were childless.