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On a recent trip to Oxford, I noticed that most of the colleges of the
universities had armorial banners flying. The Pembroke College flag is a
banner of arms quartered white-yellow-blue-red. In the white quarter is a red
rose; in the yellow quarter is a thistle; in each of the blue and red quarters
is a white lion rampant, and a third lion rampant lies on the join between the
red and blue quarters.
Dave Fowler, 4 July 2016
The flag is a banner of arms (ratio 1:2).
Coat of Arms:
Shield parted per
fess; above parted per pale; at dexter Argent a rose Gules, barbed Vert and
seeded Or (acc. to blazon: proper); at sinister Or thistle proper, i.e. Vert
blossomed Purple; beneath parted per pale of Azure and Gules three lions rampant
Argent.
Broadgates Hall was succeeded by Pembroke College which was founded
by King James I in 1624 “at the costs and charges of Thomas Tesdale and Richard
Wightwick.” The arms used were granted by Richard St. George in 1625. The lower
part of the shield shows the arms of Herbert Earls of Pembroke, as at the time
of foundation William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke was Chancellor of Oxford.
The lower partition is referring to the founder, the rose representing England
and the thistle Scotland.
Source: John P. Brooke-Little: Oxford University
and its Colleges, Oxford 1962(?), available online at
https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/oxford-university-and-its-colleges/.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 9 February 2019
The china beaker was made by the W. H. Goss of Stoke-on-Trent. The Registration
Number 60863 on the piece was first used in 1886. The Goss Factory produced boat
club flags for Oxford boating clubs - this one for the Pembroke College.
David Wiscombe, 4 and 13 September 2017