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===Origin/meaning===
===Origin/meaning===
The arms were officially granted on ?
The arms were officially granted in 1994.


The shield showsa golden maunch, a medieval sleeve which is a traditional heraldic device and coincidentally colonic in shape. The silver border suggests colonic haustrations. James Thomson, Honorary Secretary at the time, requested a Lockhart-Mummery probe to replace the (aesthetically more pleasing) Brodie’s version in the shield centre. The motto, an heraldic
The shield shows a golden maunch, a medieval sleeve which is a traditional heraldic device and coincidentally colonic in shape. The silver border suggests colonic haustrations. James Thomson, Honorary Secretary at the time, requested a Lockhart-Mummery probe in the shield centre.  
pun, was conjured (in English) during the RSM Overseas visit to Budapest and Vienna in
1991, while in transit on the Danube. Andrew Shorthouse arranged a translation by his
son’s Latin master. Translated, ‘Porro a Tergo’ is, aptly, “Forwards from Behind.”
Recognition by the College of Arms, London, in the form of Letters Patent granted in 1994
was expensive (it would cost £13,500 today) but unanimously agreed by Council.


The crest features John of Arderne (1307–1392), a medieval surgeon from Newark and the “father of coloproctology”, representing the evolution of the ACPGBI from its origins in the Section. This was based on an Elizabethan depiction of the trade, see below, which was proposed as a crest, but was 'censored' in the final grant by removing the patient. The College of Arms described the left index finger as “imbrued” (stained), and did not specify of where it had actually been.
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Andrew Shorthouse was
The motto was conjured in 1991. Translated, ‘Porro a Tergo’ is, aptly, “Forwards from Behind.”
approached to submit a traditional design which was approved at the AGM in Harrogate in
1991. The crest featured John of Arderne, a medieval surgeon from Newark and the “father
of coloproctology”, representing the evolution of the ACPGBI from its origins in the Section.
(figure 3). In both the patient hosting the fistula in the original Elizabethan depiction is
missing other than a “sequere me” probe disappearing into an external opening and John of
Arderne’s “digitus index sinister” at the internal opening (Figure 3). The College of Arms
described the left index finger as “imbrued” (stained), and were not made aware of where it
had actually been.  


'''[[Literature]]''':


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{{media}} Brown, S.R. et al: Thirty years of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. Congress article, 2020.
 
[[Literature]] :  


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ASSOCIATION OF COLOPROCTOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Arms of Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland

Official blazon

Origin/meaning

The arms were officially granted in 1994.

The shield shows a golden maunch, a medieval sleeve which is a traditional heraldic device and coincidentally colonic in shape. The silver border suggests colonic haustrations. James Thomson, Honorary Secretary at the time, requested a Lockhart-Mummery probe in the shield centre.

The crest features John of Arderne (1307–1392), a medieval surgeon from Newark and the “father of coloproctology”, representing the evolution of the ACPGBI from its origins in the Section. This was based on an Elizabethan depiction of the trade, see below, which was proposed as a crest, but was 'censored' in the final grant by removing the patient. The College of Arms described the left index finger as “imbrued” (stained), and did not specify of where it had actually been.

Arms of Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland

The motto was conjured in 1991. Translated, ‘Porro a Tergo’ is, aptly, “Forwards from Behind.”

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