GEORGE
Province: Western Cape (until 1994 Cape Province)
Origin/meaning :
The town was named after King George III of the UK.
The red cross is the cross of St George (patron saint
of England), and bird in the second quarter is a
Knynsa loerie, which is indigenous to the area.
These "arms" were replaced by a grant from the College
of Arms in 1958 (I have no image however). The new blazon was: Quarterly Gules
and Argent, a cross per cross counterchanged between
in the first quarter a horse courant of the second, in
the second quarter a Knysna loerie perched upon a
branch in bend sinister, in the third quarter a protea
flower slipped and leaved proper, and in the fourth
quarter an oak tree fructed the trunk couped Argent.
The first quarter presumably comes from the Hanoverian
coat of arms, which formed part of the British royal
arms until 1837. The loerie and the oak tree were
retained in the second and fourth quarters
respectively, and the flowers in the third quarter
were replaced with a protea, which is the national
flower emblem.
Literature : Image scanned from a cigarette card from the 1930s
coats of arms on-line ! 
