DAVID DREW DULANY HOWE



Ridire an Oileán Ceo, KCGC, KCTC



COAT OF ARMS AND BLAZON



Arms: Gules, a sword point downwards Or surmounted by three legs in armour flexed at the knee and conjoined at the thigh of the same, between in chief a Tudor rose in dexter and a daisy in sinister, both Or, Chaussé Ermine

Crest: Issuant from a feudal crown Or a court jester proper, bearded, habited Gules and Or, sejant on a demi-Pegasus rampant Argent winged of the same, gorged with a chain Or, from which is suspended an escutcheon of the arms of George Washington (Argent, two bars Gules, in chief three mullets of the second)​

Supporters: To the dexter a lion rampant guardant Proper, to the sinister a peregrine falcon close Proper, both standing upon a grassy mound Vert semé of four-leaf clovers proper

Motto: ER MOOIR AS ER CHEER (Manx: “By Sea and By Land”)

Grant: ​3 June 2025, Council of Celtic Clans and Chiefs

Registration: 8 June 2025, Page 8, Volume 1 Public Register of All Arms and Bearings, Heraldry Society of Africa

Heraldic Artist: David Drew Dulany Howe​ ​​



A former television personality, the armiger created and starred, alongside his family, in the comedic docuseries called "Suddenly Royal" produced by Warner Bros. Discovery. The armiger is an amateur heraldic artist rendering armorial bearings and other heraldic devices for several individuals and organizations including the Chief of the Clann MacAodhagain of Tethbae - Ireland, the Chief of the Clan Poole - Ireland, and the Chief of the Clan Bailey - Ireland. In June 2025, the armiger received his armorial grant, and the hereditary knighthood title Ridire an Oileán Ceo (The Knight of Misty Isles), from the governing board of the Council of Celtic Clans and Chiefs, HRH Douglas Buchanan Bailey, Chief of the Clan Bailey, fons honorum (1).


The armiger is the hereditary Lord of the Manor of Welbourn Hall. The armiger's 2nd great-grandfather, American-born John Peyton Dulany deButts, Esq., inherited Welbourn Hall, located in North Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England, in 1840 at the age of 3 from his great-grandaunt, Millicent (Welby) Ridghill. The manorial lordship of Welbourn Hall, originally Sapperton of Welbourn, dates back to before 1086 and has been held by the Welby family and their descendants for over 400 years.


Escutcheon: Representing the armiger's ancestral ties to the British Isles.


Crest: The armiger’s crest offers both whimsy and family history, featuring a court jester and honouring his family's ties to the First President of the United States, George Washington, with a representation of Washington's warhorse, the half-Arabian stallion called "Blueskin", as a Pegasus displaying a pendant of Washington's escutcheon.​ Blueskin is featured in many notable paintings of Washington and was a gift to Washington from the armiger's 5th great-grandparents, Ben and Elizabeth Dulany. The armiger's matrilineal family is the de Butts / Dulany family of Virginia and Maryland. Colonel Benjamin Tasker Dulany, was an aide-de-camp to General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. His wife, Elizabeth (née French), was Washington's goddaughter and ward after her father's passing. Washington gave Elizabeth away at the couple's wedding.


Honours: 1) Hereditary Knight of Oileán Ceo, Council of Celtic Clans and Chiefs / House of Bailey; 2) Knight Commander, Order of the Green Cross, House of Bailey; 3) Knight Commander, Knights of the True Cross, House of Bailey; 4) Lieutenant General and Aide-de-camp, The Bailey Fencibles, Ireland; 5) Lieutenant General, Royal Honour Guard, commissioned by His Majesy, The Omukama (King) Solomon Iguru I, Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara, Republic of Uganda; 6) Goodwill Ambassador - Diplomat, The Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara, Republic of Uganda


​Alma mater: 1. National Louis University, BA, Chicago, Illinois; 2. University of Oxford, Visiting Student Programme, Oxford, England



(1) His Royal Highness Douglas Buchanan Bailey, Grand Duke of Saint Cyriacus, and Tetrarch of Tiggiano, Chief of the Clan Bailey, is duly recognized as the sovereign head of the Sovereign Princely and Grand Ducal House of Bailey, through both ecclesiastical succession and traditional sovereign confirmation. In 2016, His Beatitude +Symeon, Metropolitan and First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church in America and 10th Patriarch of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of North America—an autocephalous Orthodox body tracing its foundation to Patriarch Saint Tikhon of Moscow and chartered in the United States in 1927—conferred upon Douglas Buchanan Bailey: The style and title of His Royal Highness, The Grand Duke of Saint Cyriacus, Tetrarch of Tiggiano; The office of Dynastic Grand Master of the Ecclesiastical Orders of the Church; Full succession to the ecclesiastical and noble prerogatives of the patriarchal see. This spiritual and dynastic dignity was subsequently affirmed by His Majesty Rukirabasaija Agutamba Solomon Gafabusa Iguru I, Omukama (King) of Bunyoro-Kitara, a constitutionally restored monarch of the Republic of Uganda, who, by his royal prerogative as fons honorum: Granted hereditary armorial bearings to H.R.H. Douglas Buchanan Bailey, recorded in Volume I, Page 2 of the Heraldry Society of Africa; Bestowed upon him the style of His Royal Highness, The Grand Duke; Confirmed his authority as Sovereign Grand Master of Dynastic Orders; Commissioned him as General of the Royal Honour Guard Abroad (RHGA); Authorized the establishment of The Bailey Fencibles, a cultural and noble guard. On 15 November 2018, these prerogatives were formally entrenched in Mutual Recognition Agreement No. 005/2018, entered into between: The Royal Office of Orders, Honors, and Awards Affairs (ROHA) of Bunyoro-Kitara; The Sovereign Princely and Grand Ducal House of Bailey. The Agreement, fully executed and signed under seal by both parties, provides: Article 3: Full acceptance and recognition of titles and cooperation between the Kingdom of Bunyoro-Kitara and the House of Bailey, including the Royal Institutions themselves; Article 4: Recognition of the noble titles, status, ceremonies, heraldic arms, uniforms, and governing structures of each House by the other; Article 5: Granting and approval of each House's Orders, Regalia, Heraldry, and ceremonial apparel at official events in the presence of His Majesty the Omukama and His Royal Highness the Grand Duke; Article 6: Establishment of bilateral cooperation and mutual support in the spirit of dynastic and cultural diplomacy. This mutual recognition is valid under Ugandan national law, with legal support under: Statute No. 8, Article 118(1) of 1993; Chapter IV, Article 37 (freedom of culture and tradition); Chapter XVI, Article 246(1)–(6) (recognition of traditional leaders); Schedule V, Article 178.8 of the Amendment Act No. 2 (2005); Act 6 of 2011, by the Parliament of Uganda. These cumulative spiritual, legal, dynastic, and diplomatic recognitions affirm His Royal Highness Douglas Buchanan Bailey as a legitimate fons honorum and sovereign head of house, both canonically (via ecclesiastical succession) and constitutionally (via royal grant and mutual recognition). The Sovereign Princely and Grand Ducal House of Bailey is thus a legally and ceremonially recognized institution under internationally documented royal law and traditional nobiliary custom.



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