Snawdoun Herald of Arms in Ordinary is a current Scottish herald of arms in Ordinary of the Court of the Lord Lyon .[ 1]
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] [ 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
Arms
Name
Date of appointment
Ref[ 5]
... (was Unicorn Pursuivant )
1467
John Scrimgeour of Glaster
1511
Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount
1531
[ 6]
John Paterson
1543
[ 7] [ 8]
Alexander Guthrie
1571
Thomas Lindesay
1571
Thomas Tod
1579
James Law
1607
James Sawers
1643
Robert Porteous
1661
Andrew Grierson
1665
[ 9]
James Dunbar
1682
John Dale (or Daill)
1684
Peter King
1692
James Fairbairn
1703
George Philip
1712
David Dewar of Balgonie
1715
James Fordyce
1728
Joseph Strachan
1750
Kenneth Mackenzie
1767
Daniel Menzies
1821
David Alexander
1828
James Cook
1845
William Robert Montignani
1860
Vacant
1883–2010
Elizabeth A. Roads
2010–2021
[ 2]
Vacant
2021–Present
See also
References
^ "The Officers of Arms in Scotland" . The Court of the Lord Lyon . Retrieved 2 June 2011 .^ a b "No. 26893" . The Edinburgh Gazette ^ Unicorn (5 July 2021). "Heraldry Society of Scotland - Membership Secretary's Blog: Vice-President Elizabeth Roads retires as Herald" . Heraldry Society of Scotland - Membership Secretary's Blog . Retrieved 21 August 2021 . ^ Roads, Elizabeth Ann. "Badges of the Scottish Officers of Arms". The Double Tressure (20 1998): 77– 86. ^ 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 ^ John H. Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland (1914), vol ii, p 445-446. ^ Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, no.9 (1958), p.94.^ Register Privy Council Scotland , vol.1 (1879), pp.658-660, list of heralds and messengers in 1569^ Lyon Register Page 367, Number 5411.
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