GEORGIE MARY WARNER

HIGH SHERIFF OF KENT 2011 - 2012

Georgie Warner (née Garfit) was brought up in Cambridgeshire. She was educated at St. Mary’s School, Cambridge and The Cambridge College of Arts and Technology reading Business Studies. Georgie later studied antique furniture and now runs her own antiques sourcing business. She is the immediate past Chairman of the national charity Gardening for Disabled Trust and works for the British Red Cross in the ‘Home from Hospital’ sector.

Georgie and her husband Charles have three children, Edward, Millie and Jamie, and live in Brenchley. She is a keen supporter of all village activities and is an enthusiastic horse rider and gardener.

Georgie is using her coat of arms as her emblem of Office, as has been the custom of High Sheriffs for many centuries.  On the left, as the shield is viewed, are the arms of Warner, described heraldically as 'Per Saltire indented Gules and Or two double Plumes of Ostrich Feathers in pale and two Balances in fess all conterchanged'.  With these are 'impaled' (the heraldic term for a shield bearing the arms of husband and wife) the Garfit arms of her father's family: 'Sable a Bend nebuly Argent gutty de poix between four Goats two and two salient and bendwise a Bordure Argent'.  The motto can be translated as 'Always constant and faithful', an appropriate guide to High Sheriffs, among whom were Georgie's relations, William Garfit and Thomas Garfit, High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire respectively in 1892 and 1897.