Royal Proclamation of the Calling of a New Parliament

The Lord Lyon,  accompanied by the Officers of Arms, Sheriff Clerk, Returning Officer, and State Trumpeters issued the Royal Proclamation following the dissolution of Parliament and calling a new one at the Mercat Cross, Edinburgh today. 

A great untrumpeted aspect of Royal Proclamations like today's in Edinburgh is our state trumpeters, joined for the first time by a woman - Gerry Goodall, appropriately welcomed by Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary, Professor Gillian Black.

Public Holidays May 2024

 The Lyon Office will be CLOSED for Public Holidays on FRIDAY 24th and MONDAY 27th MAY 2024.

One hundred years ago.....

 Incorporation of Tailors in Glasgow 

Argent on a chevron Gules between a bodkin accompanied on the dexter by a pair of shears expanded in saltire and in the sinister by a tailor's smoothing iron all proper in chief, on a mount in base Vert a tent purpure fringed Or, a cutting square chevronwise of the last.

Grant: May 14th 1924 Volume 26 folio 30