New Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary

 The Lord Lyon has appointed Major Neil Kilpatrick Cargill to be Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary from August 1st 2024.

Lyon in Melbourne

 The Melbourne Club Victoria held a Celebratory Dinner for Scottish Heraldry on the 25th July in honour of the Lord Lyon's visit to Melbourne . Around 140 sat down to dinner and the Haggis was duly addressed. The unfurling of a new Saltire began the Dinner.

One hundred years ago today.....

 

Incorporation of Maltmen in Glasgow

Gules on a chevron between two garbs in chief and in base a malt measure full of malt and across the mouth of the same a rolling-pin in bend all Or, two malt shovels of the field.

Grant: July 21st 1924 volume 26 folio 38

One hundred years ago today....

 

Incorporation of Bonnetmakers and Dyers in Glasgow

Argent a chevron enarched of three tracts Gules, Or and Azure, between a pair of clipping shears accompanied by a Kilmarnock bonnet in the dexter and a wool pack in the sinister all proper in chief and in base two hands clasped, sleeves turned back of the fourth, semmet and cuffs proper.

Grant: July 14th 1924 volume 26 folio 37

Trades House  19/8/1911

Bakers 20/12/1923

Barbers 18/7/1923

Bonnetmakers 14/7/1924

Coopers 26/6/1924

Cordiners 25/7/1921

Fleshers 25/2/1924

Lodge 23/7/1923

Gardeners 25/3/1924

GAS 10/10/1930

Hammermen 28/3/1918

Maltmen 21/7/1924

Masons 19/2/1917

Skinners 14/2/1924

Tailors 14/5/1924

Weavers 10/12/1922

Wrights 17/3/1924

Association of Deacons 2017

Lyon in Oz

 On the 12th July, the Lord Lyon visited the Grand Lodge Museum of New South Wales and discovered this grant to the Grand Lodge signed by Garter Woodcock with the current arms used by the Grand Lodge.

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New Grant of Arms

 The Lord Lyon has granted arms to John William Stephen MStJ. The artist was Yvonne Holton.

The blazon is: Argent on a chevron betwixt two crescents in chief and a sinister hand couped Gules, a Latin cross between two escallops of the First, debruised of a label of three points Azure in the lifetime of his father. The crest is a sea-dog.

In the Lord Lyon's absence on holiday, John received his grant in front of the next best thing.

Promotions of Officers of Arms

On the recent retirement from service of Islay Herald (Mrs Yvonne Holton) and Rothesay Herald (Mr Liam Devlin), the Lord Lyon has made the following promotions which will have effect from 1 August 2024:

Sheriff George Way of Plean (formerly Carrick Pursuivant) becomes Rothesay Herald in Ordinary

Mr John Stirling, WS (formerly Ormond Pursuivant) becomes Ross Herald in Ordinary

Prof. Gillian Black (formerly Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary) becomes Carrick Pursuivant in Ordinary

Mr Colin Russell (formerly Falkland Pursuivant Extraordinary) becomes Bute Pursuivant in Ordinary

From 1 August 2024 the full complement of HM Officers of Arms will be:

 

Marchmont Herald                             The Hon. Adam Bruce, WS, CStJ

Rothesay Herald                                 Sheriff George Way of Plean CStJ

Ross Herald                                        Mr John Stirling, WS

 

Unicorn Pursuivant                             Mr Roderick Macpherson

Carrick Pursuivant                              Professor Gillian Black         

Bute Pursuivant                                  Mr Colin Russell OStJ

March Pursuivant Extraordinary        Mr Philip Tibbetts

 

Angus Herald Extraordinary              Mr Robin Blair, CVO, WS

Albany Herald Extraordinary             Sir Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw Bart, LVO, KC

Unicorn's Photograph

 The cropped version of the splendid photograph of Roddy Macpherson, Unicorn Pursuivant, hides a fascinating tale.

Here is the full version:

Unicorn takes up the tale himself: 

Lyon Macer David Walker took this photograph of Unicorn, former Lyon Macer, in the Signet Library, in front of the portrait of Joseph Grant WS, last Secretary of the Society of Messengers-at-Arms, Edinburgh (instituted by 1631, Lyon with power to select its box masters, and dissolved in 1865). Joseph’s father, Allan Grant, messenger-at-arms in Edinburgh, often Preses of that Society of Messengers-at-Arms, and Unicorn’s grandfather, Alexander Macpherson, messenger-at-arms in Glasgow, sometime President of the Society of Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers (founded 1922 and still going strong, with the Lord Lyon as its Honorary President) were, as was discovered in time for a Lord Lyon Society lecture in 2022 (the centenary of 1922, of course), distant cousins. To be pursuivantly precise, they were third cousins, four times removed.

 

Tartan Kimono

 The Lord Lyon celebrates at the Edinburgh 900 Launch with the Tartan Register staff and the Tartan  Kimono.

Thistle Investitures 2024

  The Lord Lyon and Officers of Arms were in attendance today on HM The King in the Thistle Chapel for the installation of five new members of the Order of the Thistle: HM The Queen, The Duke of Edinburgh, the forensic anthropologist Baroness Black of Strome, the eminent barrister Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws and the distinguished scientist Sir Geoff Palmer.

Baroness Black of Strome

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws

Sir Geoff Palmer

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Edinburgh 900

  The Lord Lyon and Officers of Arms attended Their Majesties The King and Queen at the Ceremony of the Keys at Edinburgh Castle followed by the Opening Event marking the 900th birthday of the City of Edinburgh.

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Seafield Arms

From the Public Register exactly two hundred years ago today, July 1st 1824: the arms of Lewis Alexander Grant-Ogilvie, 5th Earl of Seafield. 

These were rematriculated in 1916 by the Dowager Countess on behalf of her young daughter, Nina Ogilvie-Grant, 12th Countess of Seafield in her own right:

And again in again in 1973 by her son, Ian Derek Francis Ogilvie-Grant, 13th Earl of Seafield.