Peter Bander van Duren (30 July 1930, in

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– 21 April 2004) was a British

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heraldry Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree. Armory, the best-known branch ...

and

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Biography

Peter Bander immigrated to the

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from

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and became a

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in 1962. In 1976, he changed his name by

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to ''Peter Bander van Duren'', adding a slight alteration of his mother's

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, von Duren, to his father's surname. Bander van Duren worked as a teacher in a

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, a prison for youth, and in Edith Cavell School, a secondary school in a deprived part of

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, and then taught Religious & Moral Education at Wall Hall Callege, Cambridge Institute of Education, a teachers' training college in Aldenham, Herts. In 1966 he became co-founder and joint-Managing Director of

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, a small British

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Works

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, Bander van Duren wrote several books on heraldry, some of them in coöperation with Bruno Bernard Heim or

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Hygenius Eugene Cardinale, the

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to the

Honours

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with Gold Star,

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of the Royal

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Bibliography

* ''One for the Road'' (Colin Smythe, 1966) * ''Two for the Road'' (Colin Smythe, 1967) * (editor) ''Looking Forward to the Seventies: A Blueprint for Education'' (Colin Smythe, 1968) * ''The Prophecies of St Malachy & St Columbkille'' (Colin Smythe, 1969, reprinted 2005) * ''Carry on Talking. How Dead are the Voices?'' (Colin Smythe, 1972) S edition titled ''Voices from the Tapes: Recordings from the Other World'' (Drake Publishers, 1973)* Editor of Bruno Bernard Heim, ''Armorial Bruno B. Heim'' (Van Duren Publishers, 1981) * Editor of H.E.Cardinale, ''Orders of Knighthood, Awards and the Holy See'' (3rd edition, Van Duren Publishers, 1985) * Editor of Jacques Martin, ''Heraldry in the Vatican / L'Araldica in Vaticano / Heraldik im Vatikan'' (Van Duren Publishers, 1987) * ''The Cross on the Sword'' (Van Duren Publishers, 1987) * ''Orders of Knighthood and of Merit'' (Colin Smythe, 1995) 1930 births 2004 deaths Ecclesiastical heraldry Heraldic artists German Roman Catholics Writers from Cologne People from the Rhine Province German emigrants to England Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom {{UK-writer-stub