Clarenceux King of Arms,historically often spelled Clarencieux,is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Clarenceux is the senior of the two provincial kings of arms and his jurisdiction is that part of England south of the River Trent. The office almost certainly existed in 1420,and there is a fair degree of probability that there was a Claroncell rex heraldus armorum in 1334. There are also some early references to the southern part of England being termed Surroy,but there is not firm evidence that there was ever a king of arms so called. The title of Clarenceux is supposedly derived from either the Honour of the Clare earls of Gloucester,or from the Dukedom of Clarence (1362). With minor variations,the arms of Clarenceux have,from the late fifteenth century,been blazoned as Argent a Cross on a Chief Gules a Lion passant guardant crowned with an open Crown Or.
Sir Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones was a long-serving Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London. He was Garter Principal King of Arms,the senior English officer of arms,from 1995 to 2010.
John Philip Brooke Brooke-Little was an English writer on heraldic subjects,and a long-serving herald at the College of Arms in London. In 1947,while still a student,Brooke-Little founded the Society of Heraldic Antiquaries,now known as the Heraldry Society and recognised as one of the leading learned societies in its field. He served as the society's chairman for 50 years and then as its president from 1997 until his death in 2006.
David Vines White is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Since 2021,he has served as Garter Principal King of Arms.
David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre was a British officer of arms.
Sir Thomas Woodcock FRHSC is a genealogist who served as Garter Principal King of Arms at the College of Arms from 2010 to 2021.
Sir Conrad Marshall John Fisher Swan was a Canadian-British herald who was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Having been first appointed to work at the College in 1962,he rose to the office of Garter Principal King of Arms in 1992,a position he held until 1995. He was the first Canadian ever to be appointed to the College of Arms.
Sir Henry Farnham Burke,(1859–1930) was a long-serving Anglo-Irish officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.
Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Wollaston's family had a firm tradition at the College of Arms. Wollaston's great-grandfather was Sir William Woods,Garter Principal King of Arms from 1838 until his death in 1842. His grandfather was Sir Albert William Woods who held the same post from 1869 to 1904.
Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard was a senior British Army officer and long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He served as the Garter Principal King of Arms from 1944 to 1950 before retiring. He was the third consecutive Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary to attain the highest rank at the College of Arms.
William Alexander Lindsay was a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Lindsay was the son of Hon. Colin Lindsay son of James 7th Earl of Balcarres,24th Earl of Crawford and Lady Frances Howard,daughter of the Earl of Wicklow. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College,Cambridge,and was President of the Cambridge Union. On 7 May 1870,he married Lady Harriet Hamilton-Gordon,a daughter of the 5th Earl of Aberdeen and Mary Baillie. His heraldic career began in 1882 when he was appointed Portcullis Pursuivant in Ordinary at the College of Arms. He was promoted to the office of Windsor Herald of Arms in Ordinary in 1894. In 1919,he was promoted Norroy King of Arms after Charles Athill was promoted to Clarenceux King of Arms. Three years later,Lindsay followed Athill to the role of Clarenceux on Athill's death. Lindsay held the office from 1922 until his own death in 1926.
Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee was a British officer of arms,an expert in Japanese art and heraldry and a stage designer.
Sir Arthur William Steuart Cochrane was a long-serving Officer of Arms at the College of Arms in London.
Archibald George Blomefield Russell was an English art historian and a long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.
Sir John Dunamace Heaton-Armstrong was a long-serving English officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.
John Riddell Bromhead Walker was a soldier and long-serving English officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.
Sir Francis James Grant (1863–1953) was a Scottish officer of arms who eventually rose to the office of Lord Lyon King of Arms. Grant served in the Court of the Lord Lyon as Carrick Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary beginning on 17 May 1886. This appointment lasted until his promotion to the office of Rothesay Herald of Arms in Ordinary and Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records on 8 September 1898.
Timothy Hugh Stewart Duke,FSA is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.
Rodney Onslow Dennys,was a British foreign service operative and long-serving officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. During World War II he served in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
Major Charles Murray Kennedy St Clair,17th Lord Sinclair,CVO,DL was a Scottish peer who spent his entire life in the service of the Crown;as a soldier,an officer of arms,an equerry in the Queen Mother's Household,a Scottish representative peer and as a Lord Lieutenant.
