Monday, 9 April 2018
On this day in 1747......
The 11th Lord Fraser of Lovat was the last person to be beheaded in Britain, on 9 April 1747. The arms were not recorded in the Public Register until 1837 by Thomas Alexander Fraser of Lovat and Strichen, created Baron Lovat of Lovat, and restored in the Scottish title in 1857.
Mark Dennis RIP
Tributes have been flowing in to our dear friend and former herald, Mark Dennis (1951-2025) who died suddenly on Friday and whose artistry ...
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The rare privilege of supporters, which hold up the shield, is granted a little more generously in Scotland than in England at the discre... -
The Lord Lyon has matriculated the arms of Chief of the Name and Arms of Irving of Bonshaw for Rupert Christopher Irving of Bonshaw. The art...