FITZARTUR, Lord Alban
(Viscount d’Anatis, Knight of the Ancient Order of St. Felix, Marchant of Mu).
Alban Octavius Percival Fitzartur, second son of His Grace the 41st Duke of Mallard, Prince de la Mu, Marquis de Canard, Baron Entenbraten, Condé el Ánade, Principe Anatroccolo, and Viscount d’Anetis; born 14 June 1840; died 7 November 1910.
Educated privately at Eton and subsequently at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking honours in Classics and Natural Philosophy (B.A. 1862, M.A. 1865). Entered the Diplomatic Service (1863), attaching himself to the British Legation in Mu, where he distinguished himself in the negotiation of the Treaty of Seven Currents (1868), for which he was created Knight of the Ancient Order of St. Felix by the Sovereign of Mu. In 1872 he was appointed Marchant Extraordinary of the Guild of Mu, a title thereafter incorporated into his style by Royal Licence (Gaz. 1873).
On his return to England (1875), Lord Alban served as Gentleman Usher to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and later as Equerry in Ordinary to H.M. King Edward VII (then Prince of Wales). He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Member of the Oriental Club, and a patron of the Ornithological Society, to whom he bequeathed the Codex Anserinus, a manuscript treatise upon the heraldic use of birds in European armoury, composed in his own fine hand.
Married, 1866, the Hon. Hester Lilias Cornewall-Strythe, third daughter of the 11th Baron Duckmere of Egry Abbey; issue, one daughter (Lady Helen Annetra Fitzartur, b. 1868) and two sons (Capt. Felix Alban Fitzartur, b. 1871; and Edmund Anser Fitzartur, b. 1873).
Residences—Anatis Hall, Kent (seat), and Villa Mallarda, Côte de Pomme (winter quarters).
Recreations—horticulture, heraldic studies, and the revival of ancient ceremonials of Mu.
Clubs—Travellers’, Athenaeum, and Albion of St. James.
Arms—Argent, a mallard proper upon a lake azure, within a border or, charged with eight fleurs-de-lys gules; crest, upon a wreath argent and sable, a duck volant proper, holding in the beak a scroll inscribed Anatis Honore. Motto: “Sub Alis Fides.”
Decorations—Knight of the Ancient Order of St. Felix (Mu); Commander of the Order of the White Ibis (Egypt), and recipient of the Cross of the Golden Reed (personal distinction by the Emperor of the Isles).
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