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 ===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 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 in the shield centre.
-pun, was conjured (in English) during the RSM Overseas visit to Budapest and Vienna in
-, 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, 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.
+[[File:{{PAGENAME}}1.jpg|center|400 px|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]]
-Andrew Shorthouse was
+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. The College of Arms described the left index finger as “imbrued” (stained), and were not made aware of where it had actually been.
-approached to submit a traditional design which was approved at the AGM in Harrogate in
-. 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.
+The motto was conjured in 1991. Translated, ‘Porro a Tergo’ is, aptly, “Forwards from Behind.”
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-[[Literature]] :
+[[Literature]] : Brown, S.R. et al: Thirty years of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. Congress article, 2020.
 [[Category:Institutional heraldry of the United Kingdom]]
+[[Category:Granted 1994]]