D'Arcy Boulton

D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton (born 1946) is a Canadian medieval historian, and heraldic author and artist. He taught at Davidson College and Harvard University before becoming a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana where he retired as emeritus professor of history and medieval studies in 2015. and he served as the registrar (1998–2022) and vice-dean (2004–22) of the society's College of Fellows. Since 2008, he has edited Alta Studia Heraldica: The Scholarly Journal of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada. Boulton has produced armorial achievements for individual divisions of both Harvard and Notre Dame.

escutcheon = Quarterly, first and fourth Azure, three bird-bolts in pale fesswise heads to the sinister Or (for Boulton) Second Argent, on a chevron Vert between three bugle-horns Sable a crescent of the First for difference (for Forster); Third, Gules two lions passant Argent debruised by a bendlet Ermine for difference (for Strange).

crest = On the Helm of an Esquire with a collar-band of demi-maple-leaves, a lip-band of demi-roses and a single bar Or, set in a Military Loyalist's Coronet Argent, a tun fesswise transfixed with a bird-bolt palewise Or, thereon a gryphon statant tail extended Azure, langued Gules and armed Argent gorged with a crown pallisado and therefrom a chain reflected over its back also Argent.

motto =Above the crest: Base motto:

badge = A sprig of arrowhead (sagitta latifolia) proper, showing three leaves and two flowers, arising from a formalized pond, barry wavy of five, Azure and Argent.