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Durat Ditat Placet (It sustains, it enriches, it pleases)
Ged, also written Gedd and Geddes, is a Scottish name listed by the Council of Scottish Clans & Associations, with no chief on the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs' list. The arms of Ged of that Ilk, blazoned 'Azure three geds or pikes haurient Or', pun on 'ged', the older Scots word for a pike, and are listed in Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary of Arms for 1672-7. Its best-documented bearer is William Ged (1690-1749), an Edinburgh goldsmith who took out a patent for a method of stereotype printing.
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The motto of Clan Ged is Durat Ditat Placet (It sustains, it enriches, it pleases). It appears on the Clan Ged crest badge: the chief’s heraldic crest set inside a strap and buckle that carries the motto.
In Scotland a crest belongs to the chief, not to everyone with the surname. Clan members may wear the crest badge, with the crest inside the strap and buckle, to show that they belong to the clan. The plain crest without the strap remains the chief’s own.
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View all Ged productsArms of Ged of that Ilk listed in Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary of Arms[1]
William Ged is born in Edinburgh[5]
William Ged takes out a patent for a stereotype printing method[5][2]
Ged goes into partnership with William Fenner, a London stationer[2]
Stereotype plates are prepared for an edition of Sallust[5][2]
His son James Ged is taken at Carlisle as a Jacobite and released in 1748[5]
William Ged dies in Edinburgh on 19 October[2]
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No. The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs does not list a Ged chief, and the Council of Scottish Clans & Associations leaves the chief or commander field of its Ged entry blank.
Durat Ditat Placet, Latin for 'It sustains, it enriches, it pleases'.
It is canting (punning) heraldry: 'ged' is the older Scots word for a pike, and the arms of Ged of that Ilk are blazoned 'Azure three geds or pikes haurient Or'.
An Edinburgh goldsmith and jeweller (1690-1749) who in 1725 took out a patent for a method of stereotype printing, casting a page of type as a single plate; he could not get printers to take it up and died in poor circumstances in 1749.
His son James Ged was a captain in the Duke of Perth's regiment in the 1745 rising and was taken at Carlisle. The Dictionary of National Biography records that he was released in 1748; Electric Scotland credits a petition to the Duke of Newcastle.
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