Lyon-Clerk honoured at SMASO lunch

The Society of Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers held a luncheon in the New Club on 18th June at which Mr. and Mrs. Roads were guests of honour. The Society wished to express its warm appreciation of its constant association – since 1986 – with Elizabeth Roads, as Lyon Clerk. One of Lyon Clerk’s statutory functions is to maintain the roll of messengers-at-arms. Lyon and the Society’s honorary members – including Robin Blair – lunched with the Society’s current officers.

The first photo shows Alex Irvine, President of SMASO with Christopher and Elizabeth after the President presented armorial cufflinks to Christopher and a special memento of the Office of Lyon Clerk to Elizabeth: a silver blazon or messenger’s badge, struck from the heavy die which has served, time out of mind, as the door stop to Lyon Clerk’s room in Lyon Office. The blazon or badge is a modern striking from the die which displays the version of the royal arms used between 1814 and 1837.