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Subsequent to his appointment as Ulster King of Arms, a confirmation of the arms as detailed here was made on 11 November 1893 to descendants of Sir Arthur's great grandfather, Richard Vicars of
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published serious false allegations against Vicars. The substance of the article was that Vicars had allowed a woman reported to be his mistress to obtain a copy to the key to the safe and that she had fled to Paris with the jewels. In July 1913, Vicars successfully sued the paper for libel; the
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and his wife Jane (originally Gun-Cunninghame). This was his mother's second marriage, the first being to Pierce O'Mahony by whom she had two sons. Arthur was very attached to his Irish half-brothers and spent much time at their residences. On completing his education at
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Argent, on a cross sable, five estoiles of the field impaled by the arms of the Ulster King of Arms, namely or, a cross gules and on a chief of the last, a lion passant guardant between a harp and portcullis all of the
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The Irish Crown Jewels. This image was published by the Royal Irish
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Arms of Sir Arthur Vicars KCVO as Ulster King of Arms with crest and motto, taken from Sir Arthur's bookplate as drawn by C.W. Sherborn and illustrated in Fox-Davies's
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paper admitted that the story was completely baseless and that the woman in question did not exist. Vicars was awarded damages of £5,000.
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on the death of the incumbent, Bernard Louis Burke. In a letter dated 2 October 1892 Vicars's half-brother Peirce Mahony wrote that Sir
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