UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM.

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Per chevron the chief per pale gules and azure, in dexter a lion rampant with two heads, in sinister a mermaid holding in the dexter hand a mirror, and in the sinister a comb or, the base sable, charged with an open book proper with two buckles and straps and edges of the third inscribed, " Per ardua ad alta."

[Granted 27th August 1900.]

These arms are based upon the arms and crest formerly used by Sir Josiah Mason, the founder of Mason's College, now extended into the University of Birmingham.

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