Another work by the late Mark Dennis

 When The Queen was approaching the point when she would overtake Queen Victoria as our longest serving monarch, Very Rev Sir Iain Torrance, then Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland, approached Mark and asked if he could possibly devise a card celebrating the event which he could send HM from the Chaplains to The Queen in Scotland.  

They agreed on a cartoon-style foot race, with The Queen overtaking Queen Victoria but with the road continuing a long way into the future.  

This is what Mark produced and The Queen was amused by his surprise caricature of Sir Iain holding the finishing tape.

Memorial Service for Mark Dennis

 The Lord Lyon, representing HM The King, attended the Memorial Service this morning in St Salvator's Chapel, St Andrews, for the eminent artist and umquhile Ross Herald Extraordinary, Mark Dennis. The Lord Lyon gave the eulogy and the Officers of Arms attended in levée dress.

Mark's funeral hatchment was magnificently painted by Kevin Greig and Stanley Bird. The hatchment was borne in towards the end of the service preceded by the Officers of Arms while the organist played "The Herald's March" with which the Army Band often accompanies the procession of Officers of Arms from the Signet Library to the Mercat Cross for proclamations.

In his Eulogy, Lyon referred to the stir Mark's attire caused when he was a guest at the Coronation. 

 

Another new grant

  The Lord Lyon has granted arms to Benjamin Steven Nossiter. The artist is Adel Gaspar.

Azure a fess nowy Argent between two polar stars of six points Or, on a chief Or a kangaroo leaping Azure between two Ordnance Survey Benchmarks Sable.

Lonach Pipe Band

 The Lord Lyon has granted arms to Lonach Pipe Band. The artist is Adal Gaspar.

The blazon is: Per saltire Or and Vert in chief a stag's head cabossed tined of twelve Tenné and in base a thistle in bloom slipped Proper.

Lord Elgin 102 today!

  Warmest congratulations to the oldest Knight of the Thistle, Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine on his 102nd birthday today.  Ad multos annos! 

Here are Lord Elgin's arms in a glorious emblazonment by the late Mark Dennis.

One Hundred Years ago today

 From the Public Register 100 years ago today, the arms of Sir Henry Craik Bt. P.C. KCB, MP for the Scottish Universities and son of the Minister of St George's Kirk, Glasgow. The blazon is:

Argent on a sea in base undy Azure and of the First a three-masted ship under full sail proper flagged Gules, on a chief indented of the last a book expanded of the field leaved Or between two antique lamps of the last.