Tuesday, 9 April 2024

International Unicorn Day 2024

  Although our National Beast, the Unicorn is not very common in Scottish heraldry, here are two: the former Roxburgh District Council and Major Alan Edmonstoune Greenshields Leadbetter of Stobieside, killed aged 20 in action near Ypres in 1917.



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...