sentences:  He also contributed a major article on heraldry to the 1911 edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica", which according to John Campbell-Kease in the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" remains "one of the best and most erudite introductions to the subject".His interest in medieval rather than contemporary heraldry, and his opinion (based on medieval practice) that assumption of arms was not prohibited by the Law of Arms, pitted him against the more prolific and popular heraldic author, A. C. Fox-Davies.It did not, however, deprive him of friends in the College of Arms, and he was, towards the end of his life in 1937, appointed Maltravers Herald Extraordinary at the College.