Royal Warrant - Establishing a Regius Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Warwick [2013-07-26]

Royal Warrant - Establishing a Regius Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Warwick [2013-07-26]

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Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II establishing a Regius Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Warwick.

Queen Elizabeth II

Nicholas Jackson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

2013-07-26

Jason Loch

(Sgd.) Elizabeth R

ELIZABETH·THE·SECOND

by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our Other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith:

to all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!

WHEREAS We are desirous that a mark of Our Royal Grace and Favour should be conferred upon the Professorship of Mathematics in the University of Warwick in recognition of outstanding teaching and research to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Our Reign;

AND WHEREAS it has been represented to Us by Our Secretary of State that there be a Professorship of Mathematics in the University of Warwick amongst a number of Professorships upon whom Our Royal Grace and Favour shall be conferred;

NOW KNOW YE that We for divers good causes and considerations and by Our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion do hereby for Ourselves, Our heirs and successors give and grant unto the Office or Place of Professor of Mathematics in the University of Warwick a mark of Our Royal Grace and Favour;

AND it is Our Will and Pleasure therefore that the said Office or Place of Professor of Mathematics in the University of Warwick shall hereafter be known during Our Pleasure and that of Our heirs and successors by the style and title of Regius Professor of Mathematics in the University of Warwick.

GIVEN at Our Court at Saint James’s the Twenty–sixth day of July Two Thousand and Thirteen in the Sixty–second year of Our Reign:

By · Her · Majesty’s · Command

(Sgd.) Chris Grayling

Chris Grayling (Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice)

Red Second Seal in the lower left.

Document is highly ornamented. Full color Royal Arms painted at the top. The document is written in italic calligraphy. Royal name begins with a large ornamental initial. The rest of the name is in blue and capitalized with gold interpuncts. "Queen" is in red and capitalized. Greeting clause is in blue.

University of Warwick coat of arms to the left of the command clause. A logo of three triangles, one red, one blue, and one green, is on the right. The green triangle has mathematical symbols on it.

The eschatocol is capitalized with red interpuncts between words.

This Regius Professorship was created as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

The Secretary of State is referred to as "Our Secretary of State" rather than the more traditional "one of Our Principal Secretaries of State".