Snawdoun Herald

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Snawdoun Herald
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Heraldic tradition Gallo-British
Jurisdiction Scotland
Governing body Court of the Lord Lyon

Snawdoun Herald of Arms in Ordinary is a current Scottish herald of arms in Ordinary of the Court of the Lord Lyon. [1]

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The office was first mentioned in 1443 and the title is derived from a part of Stirling Castle which bore the same name. The previous Snawdoun Herald of Arms to serve retired in 1883.

The office was last held by Elizabeth A. Roads, former Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records for the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh. She was appointed to this post on the 17 December 2010, [2] and retired in 2021. [3]

The badge of office is Issuant from battlements Proper a unicorn’s head erased Argent, horned and crined and grasping in his mouth the sword Excalibur Or all ensigned of the Crown of Scotland Proper. The granting of this badge completed the devising of badges for all the ordinary and regularly used extraordinary officer of arms titles. [4]

Holders of the office

ArmsNameDate of appointmentRef [5]
... (was Unicorn Pursuivant)1467
John Scrimgeour of Glaster1511
Arms of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount.svg Sir David Lydsay of the Mount 1531 [6]
John Paterson1543 [7] [8]
Alexander Guthrie1571
Thomas Lindsay1571
Thomas Tod1579
James Law1607
James Sawers1643
Arms of Porteous.svg Robert Porteous1661
Arms of Andrew Grierson.svg Andrew Grierson1665 [9]
James Dunbar1682
John Dale (or Daill)1684
Peter King1692
James Fairbairn1703
George Philip1712
David Dewar of Balgonie1715
James Fordyce1728
Joseph Strachan1750
Kenneth Mackenzie1767
Daniel Menzies1821
David Alexander1828
James Cook1845
William Robert Montignani1860
Vacant1883–2010
Arms of Elizabeth Ann Roads.svg Elizabeth A. Roads 2010–2021 [2]
Vacant2021-Present

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References

  1. ↑ "The Officers of Arms in Scotland". The Court of the Lord Lyon. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  2. 1 2 "No. 26893". The Edinburgh Gazette . 21 January 2011. p. 107.
  3. ↑ Unicorn (2021-07-05). "Heraldry Society of Scotland - Membership Secretary's Blog: Vice-President Elizabeth Roads retires as Herald". Heraldry Society of Scotland - Membership Secretary's Blog. Retrieved 2021-08-21.
  4. ↑ Roads, Elizabeth Ann. "Badges of the Scottish Officers of Arms". The Double Tressure (20 1998): 77–86.
  5. ↑ Grant, Sir Francis James (1945). Court of the Lord Lyon: List of His Majesty's Officers of Arms and Other Officials with Genealogical Notes, 1318-1945. Society.
  6. ↑ John H. Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland (1914), vol ii, p 445-446.
  7. ↑ Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, no.9 (1958), p.94.
  8. ↑ Register Privy Council Scotland, vol.1 (1879), pp.658-660, list of heralds and messengers in 1569
  9. ↑ Lyon Register Page 367, Number 5411.
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