Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Lyon at the SGS AGM
On the evening of the 17th February the Lord Lyon as Honorary President of the Scottish Genealogical Society chaired the Society’s AGM after which he gave a talk entitled “Should Robert Burns be granted a Coat of Arms”. Here once again is the lovely version painted by the quondam Ross Herald Extraordinary, Mark Dennis, based on the bard's own design.
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 M...
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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...